High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Armstrong Percy, III, (born 10 December 1933) is a professor, historian, encyclopedist, and gay activist. His mother Anne Minor Dent was raised by her widowed uncle, the distinguished Memphis lawyer Dent Minor, scion of 17th century settlers of those names in Maryland and Virginia, whose great-uncle John B. Minor taught law at the University of Virginia from 1845 to 1895 and served for decades as dean of the Law School there.