Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812

LC control no.	n 50048963
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Barrister, 1762-1812 A. B., 1762-1812 B., A., 1762-1812 Percival, Spencer, 1762-1812
See also	Great Britain. Prime Minister (1809-1812 : Perceval) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Associated country	Great Britain
Associated place	Northampton, England
Birth date	1762-11-01
Death date	1812-05-11
Place of birth	London, England
Place of death	London, England
Field of activity	Law Politics, Practical
Affiliation	Lincoln's Inn (London, England) Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Politicians Legislators Prime ministers
Found in	His The proceedings and correspondence upon the ... 1807. Six letters on the subject of Dr. Milner's explanation..., 1809: t.p. (A.B.) 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 Monck, J. B. A letter to the Right Hon. Spencer Percival, on the present state of our currency, 1812 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)
Associated language	eng