Monday, April 30, 2012
Remember Spencer Perceval
I read an interesting little article by Bruce Anderson in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday and I thought I'd share it. Anderson was pointing out that Spencer Perceval deserves to be better remembered by posterity. Who he? I hear you ask. Spencer Perceval was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury between 1809 and 1812; he was the only Attorney General ever to have gone on to become Prime Minister and he was, of course, the only the British Prime Minister to have been assassinated, almost two hundred years ago to the day on 11 May 1812. Unfortunately, poor old Spencer Perceval is better remembered for the manner of his death than for his life. I'm on a mission to change this so, go on, read about Spencer Perceval on Wikipedia. You never know when it might be the answer to a pub quiz question.
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