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 the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a Live
Immediate aftermath of Perceval's assassination, 11 May 1812 (a 1909 representation)
Detail of a posthumous portrait of Spencer Perceval
A contemporary engraving of John Bellingham
William Cobbett, who denounced the government from his prison cell
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, was a British Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827. Before becoming prime minister he had been foreign sec
Portrait of Lord Liverpool by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1820
Portrait of Lord Hawkesbury by Lawrence, 1796
Portrait of Lord Castlereagh by Thomas Lawrence. Castlereagh served as Liverpool's Foreign Secretary from 1812 until 1822, playing a major role in assembling the coalition against Napoleon and the postwar Concert of Europe
The Trial of Queen Caroline by George Hayter. George IV's insistence on trying to divorce his wife Caroline of Brunswick caused problems for Liverpool's government.