Spencer Perceval
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Spencer Perceval was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812. He is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, and the only solicitor
Posthumous portrait by G. F. Joseph, 1812
Perceval's early childhood was spent at Charlton House (pictured)
Jane Perceval (née Wilson) by Vigée Le Brun, 1804
Engraving of the British House of Commons, 1808
John Bellingham
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John Bellingham was an English merchant and perpetrator of the 1812 murder of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assassinated.
Spencer Perceval
…and won the support of the Prince Regent. His position was stronger by early 1812, when in the lobby of the House of Commons, he was assassinated by John Bellingham, a merchant with a grievance against his government. Bellingham was hanged one week later. Perceval had four older brothers who survived to adulthood…
A contemporary engraving of John Bellingham