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Spencer Perceval

1762 - 1812

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Spencer Perceval (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812. He is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, and the only solicitor-general or attorney-general to have become prime minister. The younger son of an Anglo-Irish earl, Perceval was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spencer Perceval has received more than 1,533,023 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Spencer Perceval is the 6,058th most popular politician (up from 8,562nd in 2019), the 1,206th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,809th in 2019) and the 204th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Spencer Perceval ranks 6,058 out of 19,576. Before him are Jin Youzhi, Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, Gnaeus Pompeius, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Muazzez Sultan, and Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria. After him are Chandragupta I, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Margaret, Countess of Anjou, Cai Yong, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, and Hor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Spencer Perceval ranks 13. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Jacques Balmat, Pierre André Latreille, Theroigne de Mericourt, and María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba. After him are Felice Pasquale Baciocchi, James Hoban, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Jean-Étienne Championnet, Anton Bernolák, and Herman Willem Daendels. Among people deceased in 1812, Spencer Perceval ranks 10. Before him are Sacagawea, George Clinton, Étienne-Louis Malus, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Carl Ludwig Willdenow. After him are Isaac Titsingh, Hieronymus von Colloredo, Duke George of Oldenburg, Isaac Brock, Marianna Martines, and Claude François de Malet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Spencer Perceval ranks 1,206 out of 8,785. Before him are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), Ally McCoist (1962), Hugh Lofting (1886), John Boorman (1933), Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), and James Mirrlees (1936). After him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), R. D. Laing (1927), Ray Stevenson (1964), Sister Nivedita (1867), John Toshack (1949), and Smithson Tennant (1761).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Spencer Perceval ranks 204. Before him are William the Lion (1142), Ed Miliband (1969), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Rob Roy MacGregor (1671), and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287). After him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763), Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375), James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812), Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869), and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883).

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