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    Spencer Perceval KC (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and barrister who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October...
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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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  • 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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    created in 1733 for John Perceval, 1st Viscount Perceval. It became extinct with the death of the twelfth earl in 2011. The Percevals claimed to be an ancient...
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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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    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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    the final collapse of the Portland government and the ascension of Spencer Perceval as the new prime minister. Castlereagh and Canning, meanwhile, spent...
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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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    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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  • including: Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (junior) (1795–1859), British politician Spencer George Perceval (1838–1922)...
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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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    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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    Prohibition of dying (category Spencer Perceval)
    to be a myth, as at least four people (Guy Fawkes, Walter Raleigh, Spencer Perceval and Alfred Billson) have died in the grounds of the Palace of Westminster...
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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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  • 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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    Assassination of Spencer Perceval in May 1812, George, the Prince Regent, successively tried to appoint four men to succeed Perceval, but failed. Jenkinson...
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  • remain intact in the hands of the Russians. 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House...
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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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    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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    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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    Sabatier, French anatomist and surgeon (19 July 1811), to his son "Oh!" — Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (11 May 1812), mortally wounded...
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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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    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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    a parliamentary inquiry, Spencer Perceval was shot and killed by a Liverpool merchant adventurer, John Bellingham. Perceval remains the only British Prime...
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    in favour of Spencer Perceval. He rejected overtures to serve as Foreign Secretary again because of Castlereagh's presence in Perceval's Cabinet and he...
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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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    War of the Fifth Coalition (category Spencer Perceval)
    British prime minister, the Duke of Portland, and his replacement by Spencer Perceval. Austria invaded the Duchy of Warsaw with initial success. Poniatowski's...
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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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