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    Spencer Perceval (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until...
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    On 11 May 1812, at about 5:15 pm, Spencer Perceval, the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot dead in the lobby of...
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  • Spencer Perceval (1762–1812) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Spencer Perceval may also refer to: Spencer Perceval (junior) (1795–1859), British...
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    created in 1733 for John Perceval, 1st Viscount Perceval. It became extinct with the death of the twelfth earl in 2011. The Percevals claimed descent from...
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  • Spencer Perceval (11 September 1795 – 16 September 1859) was a British Member of Parliament, the eldest son of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval and Jane...
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    the final collapse of the Portland government and the advancement of Spencer Perceval as the new Prime Minister. Castlereagh and Canning, meanwhile, spent...
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    the father of the Regency Era Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. He was the son and heir of John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, by his wife Catherine Parker...
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    foursome of Pittites, consisting of Viscount Castlereagh, George Canning, Spencer Perceval and Lord Hawkesbury.: 87ff  The government was soon torn apart from...
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  • Spencer George Perceval (8 July 1838 – 7 March 1922) was an English amateur antiquary, geologist, and benefactor to Cambridge University. Spencer George...
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    served office under sovereigns in whose own reigns they were born. Spencer Perceval – born 1762, served 1809–1812 – was assassinated in 1812; his is the...
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    John Bellingham (category Spencer Perceval)
    1812) was an English merchant and perpetrator of the 1812 murder of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assassinated. Bellingham's early...
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    Walpole and Lady Margaret Perceval, youngest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Egmont and sister of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. His grandfather was Thomas...
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    Kingdom (MPs) who died by assassination or other culpable homicide. Spencer Perceval is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, having...
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    Ace of spades (category Spencer Perceval)
    them. This was a capital offence, the prosecutor the Attorney General Spencer Perceval (later to become the prime minister assassinated in 1812) obtained...
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    state. May 11 – John Bellingham assassinates British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, in the lobby of the British House of Commons. May 16 – Russian field...
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  • including: Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (junior) (1795–1859), British politician Spencer George Perceval (1838–1922)...
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    Regency. Luddite uprisings. Glasgow weavers riot. 1812 Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated in the House of Commons. The final shipment of the...
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    Years (4 vol. 1904). Among his other publications come his lives of Spencer Perceval (1894) and Lord John Russell (1889), and a volume of valuable Studies...
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    Jane Perceval (née Wilson; 1769–1844), later known as "Lady Carr" after her second marriage, was the wife of Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United...
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  • Lexden during a debate in the House of Lords in 2012. Referring to Spencer Perceval, the only Prime Minister to have been assassinated, Lexden remarked...
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    led to over a month of deadly rioting in the city. Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated in London on 11 May and Lord Liverpool came to power...
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    with actual power being held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Spencer Perceval. Parliament was dissolved, and the subsequent election gave the ministry...
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    that included George Canning, Lord Castlereagh, Lord Hawkesbury and Spencer Perceval. Portland's second government saw the United Kingdom's complete isolation...
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  • Percival or Perceval in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Percival is a Knight of the Round Table in the King Arthur legend. Percival, Perceval, or similar...
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    Earl of Nottingham; Sir Evan Nepean; and a sister of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. Grant's father was an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders for eight...
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    government of the United Kingdom in office under the leadership of Spencer Perceval from 1809 to 1812. December 1809 – Lord Wellesley succeeds Lord Bathurst...
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  • speaker. Linklater's book Why Spencer Perceval Had To Die focuses on the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, looking at the conspiracy...
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    his loyalty to Sidmouth prevented him from joining the cabinet of Spencer Perceval as Chancellor of the Exchequer in October 1809. He opposed an early...
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    Regent tried to court Grey and his ally William Grenville to join the Spencer Perceval ministry following the resignation of Lord Wellesley. Grey and Grenville...
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    William Perceval, grandfather to, amongst others, the Irish landlord Robert Perceval-Maxwell (1813–1905), William Perceval and Spencer Perceval, who together...
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