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See also:PERCEVAL, See also:SPENCER (1762-1812) , See also:prime See also:minister of See also:England from 18o9 to 1812, second son of See also:John, and See also:earl of See also:Egmont, was See also:born in See also:Audley Square, See also:London, on the 1st of See also:November 1762. He was educated at See also:Harrow and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1786. A very able speech in connexion with a famous See also:forgery See also:case having See also:drawn See also:attention to his talents, his success was from that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time rapid, he was soon regarded as the leading counsel on the Midland See also:circuit, and in 1796 became a K.C. Entering See also:parliament for See also:Northampton in See also:April of that See also:year, he distinguished himself by his speeches in support of the See also:administration of See also:Pitt. In 1801, on the formation of the Addington administration, he was appointed See also:solicitor-See also:general, and in 1802 he became See also:attorney-general. An ardent opponent of See also:Catholic Emancipation, he delivered in 1807 a speech on the subject which helped to give the deathblow to the See also:Grenville administration, upon which he became See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer under the See also:duke of See also:Portland, whom in 1809 he succeeded in the premiership. Notwithstanding that he had the assistance in the See also:cabinet of no statesman of the first See also:rank, he succeeded in retaining See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office till he was shot by a See also:man named See also:Bellingham, a bankrupt with a grievance, who had vainly applied to him for redress, in the See also:lobby of the See also:House of See also:Commons on the 11th of May 1812. Bellingham was certainly insane, but the plea was set aside and he was hanged. Perceval was a vigorous debater, specially excelling in replies, in which his thorough mastery of all the details of his subject gave him a See also:great See also:advantage. He married in 1790 and had six sons and six daughters; one of the latter married Spencer Horatio See also:Walpole (d. 1898), See also:home secretary, and their son See also:Sir Spencer Walpole, the well-known historian, published an excellent See also:biography of Perceval in 1874.
See also P. Treherne, Spencer Perceval (19o9).
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