 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Muna 1759, akabatana neuto reBritain achiri kuyaruka uye akanga ava kaputeni we85th Regiment of Foot ava nemakore 17, chiitiko chakaratidza simba repfuma uye chinzvimbo chemhuri. Kunyange zvakadaro, aiva musoja akanaka uye akarwa zvine mbiri muna 1759 muhondo dzeBergen neMinden. Muna 1760, akaenda kuSt Johns College, Cambridge. Gare gare, akaroora Lady Anne Crichton-Stuart, mwanasikana waIshe Bute, musi wa2 Chikunguru 1764. Muna 1766, baba vake vakapiwa chigaro choumambo uye vakapiwa zita rokuti Earl Percy. Sezvo nhengo yeParamende uye mukwasha waIshe Bute, Percy akasimudzirwa kuita colonel akazara uye akagadzwa mubatsiri wemusasa kuna Mambo muna 1764, achangosvika pazera rake. Percy aiva noutano husina kutsarukana nemhaka yegout uye akanga asingaoni zvakanaka. Akanga asinganakidzi mumuviri, ari mutete zvikuru uye ane mhino huru. Asi, aiva nomukurumbira uye akashinga, akanga akavimbika uye ane tsika, aiva netsika dzakanaka, uye aipa zvikuru nepfuma yake. 