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
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
Spencer Perceval
…of financial affairs. He agreed to take the position when the salary (smaller than that of the Home Office) was augmented by the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Hawkesbury (later Liverpool) recommended Perceval to the King by explaining that he came from an old English family and shared the King's views on the Catholic…
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.