Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812
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found: His The proceedings and correspondence upon the ... 1807.
found: Six letters on the subject of Dr. Milner's explanation..., 1809:t.p. (A.B.)
found: The church question in Ireland: speech as prepared by the late Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, for the debate on the first Roman-Catholic petition to the United Parliament, (13 May, 1805) : now first published from the original MS, 1844
found: Monck, J. B. A letter to the Right Hon. Spencer Percival, on the present state of our currency, 1812
found: Oxford Dictionary of national biography online, Jan. 10, 2013(Spencer Perceval; born on 1 November 1762 in Audley Square, London, the second son of John Perceval, second earl of Egmont (1711-1770); in 1780 entered Trinity College, Cambridge, taking an honorary MA in 1782; took silk in 1796 and in 1797 he was made a KC and became a bencher at Lincoln's Inn; returned MP for Northampton at a by-election in May 1796; appointed Solicitor-General in 1801, Attorney-General in 1802, and Prime Minister in 1809. In response to the idea of a royal veto he wrote an anonymous pamphlet, Six Letters on the Subject of Dr. Milner's Explanation (1809); on 11 May 1812 Perceval was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons)
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