Spencer Percival

Spencer Percival was a Tory who came to the highest office in the midst of many difficulties. The Napoleonic Wars were still raging, there was a severe depression and King George was in the midst of the worst days of King George's madness. It seemed as if his administration was coming to grips with each of these problems when it came suddenly to an end. A man by the name of John Bellingham lay in wait for Spencer Percival and shot him dead. John Bellingham had incurred costs on a trade mission to Russia and had become frustrated in trying to recoup that money. Spencer Percival is the only British Prime-minister to have been successfully assassinated.

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