Spencer Perceval

Standard Name: Perceval, Spencer

Connections

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Textual Production	Mary Stockdale	MS published with her father's firm The Christian Poet's Lament over the Christian Statesman, An Elegy on the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, the assassinated Tory Prime Minister. OCLC WorldCat.

Timeline

4 or 6 October 1809

Spencer Perceval assumed office as Prime Minister. He was a Tory, an Evangelical, and an abolitionist, strongly committed to the war against France.

11 May 1812

Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons in London by a Liverpool merchant, John Bellingham , who had been ruined in the course of trade with Russia.

9 June 1812

The Earl of Liverpool became Prime Minister following the assassination of Spencer Perceval .