Which politician did John Bellingham assassinate?
"the lobby of the House of Commons. After taking a friend's family to a painting exhibition on 11 May 1812, Bellingham remarked that he had some business to attend to. He made his way to Parliament, where he waited in the lobby. When Prime Minister Spencer Perceval appeared, Bellingham stepped forward and shot him in the heart. He then calmly sat on a bench. Bellingham was immediately restrained and was identified by Isaac Gascoyne, MP for Liverpool. John Bellingham was tried on Friday 15 May 1812 at the Old Bailey, where he argued that he would have preferred to shoot"
"Assassination of Spencer Perceval Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons in London, at about 5:15 pm on Monday 11 May 1812. His assassin was John Bellingham, a Liverpool merchant with a grievance against the government. Bellingham was detained and, four days after the murder, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. He was hanged at Newgate Prison one week later on 18 May. Perceval had led the Tory government since 1809, during a critical phase of the Napoleonic Wars. His"
"justice, and grant audience when it is asked of them."" A subscription was raised for the widow and children of Bellingham, and ""their fortune was ten times greater than they could ever have expected in any other circumstances"". His widow remarried the following year. Bellingham's skull was preserved at Barts Pathology Museum. In September 2009 the St Neots Local History Society erected a plaque on Bellingham House in St Neots. The house, on the corner of Huntingdon Street and Cambridge Street, is said to be the birthplace of Bellingham. John Bellingham John Bellingham (176918 May 1812) was the assassin of"
"court convened the same day composed of MPs who were, like himself, also magistrates in order to begin committal proceedings against the murderer, John Bellingham, take witness statements and order messengers to search Bellingham's lodgings. Bellingham was ultimately hanged. He held the seat for 21 years, until he resigned from the House of Commons in 1817 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds. He died the following year, aged about 66. He had married his cousin Alice Christian, the daughter of Boyce Tree, corn factor, of London, with whom he had four sons and six daughters. By 1806 he was an incredibly"
"James Bellingham Sir James Bellingham, 2nd Baronet (8 September 1623 – 26 October 1650) was an English politician, lawyer and baronet. He was the only son of Sir Henry Bellingham, 1st Baronet and Dorothy Boynton, daughter of Sir Francis Boynton. After being called to the bar at Gray's Inn, Bellingham was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmorland in the Long Parliament from 1646 until 1648. Bellingham married Catherine Willoughby, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, 1st Baronet. Their marriage was childless. In 1650, having succeeded his father as baronet, Bellingham himself died two weeks later, aged only 27. With his"
"join the existing ministry under Perceval. The Whigs, however, refused to co-operate because of disagreements over Catholic emancipation. Grudgingly, the Prince of Wales allowed Perceval to continue as Prime Minister. On 11 May 1812, Perceval was assassinated by John Bellingham. The Prince Regent was prepared to reappoint all the members of the Perceval ministry under a new leader. The House of Commons formally declared its desire for a ""strong and efficient administration"", so the Prince Regent then offered leadership of the government to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and afterwards to Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira. He doomed the"
"to Henry Bellingham of the Conservatives, whom he had defeated in 1997. In the House of Lords on 25 April 2012 it was asserted ""Lord Lexden: My Lords, would my noble friend think of reminding Mr Henry Bellingham that he has already experienced the Perceval family's taste for revenge, having been deprived of his Commons seat at the 1997 election by a direct descendant of the assassinated Prime Minister?"" Col 1786 He married Lesley Duggan. They have two daughters, a stepson and a stepdaughter. George Turner (British politician) George Turner (born 9 August 1940) is a Labour Party politician in"
"death the baronetcy became extinct. He was buried in Heversham. James Bellingham Sir James Bellingham, 2nd Baronet (8 September 1623 – 26 October 1650) was an English politician, lawyer and baronet. He was the only son of Sir Henry Bellingham, 1st Baronet and Dorothy Boynton, daughter of Sir Francis Boynton. After being called to the bar at Gray's Inn, Bellingham was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmorland in the Long Parliament from 1646 until 1648. Bellingham married Catherine Willoughby, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, 1st Baronet. Their marriage was childless. In 1650, having succeeded his father as baronet, Bellingham"
"of an uprising, but it soon became apparent that the assassin – who had made no attempt to escape – was a man with an obsessive grievance against the Government and had acted alone. The assassin, John Bellingham, was a merchant who believed he had been unjustly imprisoned in Russia and was entitled to compensation from the government, but all his petitions had been rejected. Perceval's body was laid on a sofa in the speaker's drawing room and removed to Number 10 in the early hours of 12 May. That same morning an inquest was held at the Cat and"
"and grandson of the 1st Earl Egmont. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when he was assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons in 1812. Another member of the family Robert, the second son of the first baronet, had also been assassinated in 1677, by an unknown hand on The Strand in London. Philip Perceval Sir Philip Perceval (1605 – 10 November 1647) was an English politician and knight. He was knighted in 1638, obtained grants of forfeited lands in Ireland to the amount of , and lost extensive property in Ireland owing"
"the abolition of the Slave Trade and the Reform Act 1832. He also opposed both the abolition of bull-baiting and Catholic Emancipation. In 1811, Gascoyne received a number of petitions from Liverpool resident John Bellingham, calling for him to take up his claim for compensation from the British government for a period of imprisonment he had suffered in Russia. In May 1812, Bellingham entered the lobby of the House of Commons and shot Prime Minister Spencer Perceval dead. Gascoyne was able to recognise Bellingham, providing leads in the immediate aftermath. In 1831, Gascoyne moved a motion opposing a reduction of"
"against any similar attempts against the Sovereign. Sir Walter Raleigh was executed at the Palace of Westminster on 29 October 1618. The previous Palace of Westminster was also the site of a prime-ministerial assassination on 11 May 1812. While in the lobby of the House of Commons, on his way to a parliamentary inquiry, Spencer Perceval was shot and killed by a Liverpool merchant adventurer, John Bellingham. Perceval remains the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated. The New Palace became the target of Fenian bombs on 24 January 1885, along with the Tower of London. The first bomb,"
"of the 19th century, the arrest and prolonged detention by Russian authorities of John Bellingham, an English export representative based at Arkhangelsk, was the indirect cause of Bellingham later assassinating British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. Arkhangelsk's economy revived at the end of the 19th century when a railway to Moscow was completed and timber became a major export. The city resisted Bolshevik rule from 1918 to 1920 and was a stronghold of the anti-Bolshevik White Army supported by the military intervention of British-led Entente forces along an Allied expedition, including a North American contingent known as the Polar Bear Expedition."
"was buried in the family vault at St Mary's Church of Ireland, Kilsaran Parish, in Castlebellingham. Sir William Bellingham, 1st Baronet Sir William Bellingham, 1st Baronet (c. 1756 – 27 October 1826) was an Irish-born British politician and the ""controller of the storekeepers' accounts"" for the Royal Navy. Bellingham was charged with organizing and procuring provisions for the Vancouver Expedition. Though he never saw the Pacific Ocean, Bellingham Bay and the city of Bellingham, Washington, are named for him. William Bellingham was the son of Col. Alan Bellingham (of Castlebellingham) and Alice Montgomery, daughter of Rev. Hans Montgomery of Grey"
"own Coolgardie-based engineering business in 1893, and later also became a director of several mines in the wider Eastern Goldfields area. Bellingham was elected to the Coolgardie Town Council in 1895, and first stood for parliament in 1897, but placed only fifth out of six candidates in North-East Province. He was successful in his second attempt, however, winning a two-year term in South Province in 1900. Bellingham was re-elected at the 1902 Legislative Council elections, but did not recontest his seat when his term expired. He eventually moved to London, where he died in July 1932 (aged 70). His brother-in-law,"
"against his harsh policies, his political position had become unassailable. According to the humorist Sydney Smith, Perceval combined ""the head of a country parson with the tongue of an Old Bailey lawyer"". Early in 1812 agitation for repeal of the Orders in Council increased. After riots in Manchester in April, Perceval consented to a House of Commons enquiry into the operation of the Orders; hearings began in May. Perceval was expected to attend the session on 11 May 1812; among the crowd in the lobby awaiting his arrival was a Liverpool merchant, John Bellingham. Bellingham was born in about 1770,"
"Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Baronet Brigadier-General Sir Edward Henry Charles Patrick Bellingham, 5th Baronet CMG, DSO, DL (26 January 1879 – 19 May 1956) was a British and Irish soldier, politician and finally diplomat. Bellingham was the eldest son of Sir Alan Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet and his wife Lady Constance Noel, the second daughter of Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. He was educated at The Oratory School and went then to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1921, he succeeded his father as baronet. In 1899, Bellingham was commissioned as ensign into The Royal Scots He fought with"
"he is involved in the investigation of the assassination of Spencer Perceval, the then Prime Minister. The actual event involved a man named John Bellingham. However the real-life Bellingham was carrying out a grudge that had nothing to do with Ireland. There are also references to the War of 1812 where the United States of America attacked Canada, provoking a British response that included an attack on the US capital. One character mentions that Darcy is trading with the US even though the two countries are at war. Dy Brougham re-appears late in the novel having been on a secret"
"in the British Army and captain in the 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He entered the British House of Commons in 1880, representing County Louth as Member of Parliament (MP) until 1885. He was High Sheriff of Louth in 1897, Justice of the Peace for this county and, having been previously a Deputy Lieutenant was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Louth in 1911, an office he held until his death in 1921. Bellingham was Commissioner of National Education for Ireland and was successively Private Chamberlain to the three popes, Pius IX, Leo XIII and Pius X. He was also High Sheriff"
"event, ""correct in every detail"". Perceval himself had a series of dreams culminating on 10 May with one of his own death, which he had while spending the night at the house of the Earl of Harrowby. He told the Earl of his dream, and the Earl tried to persuade Perceval not to attend Parliament that day, but Perceval refused to be scared off by ""a mere dream"" and headed for Westminster on the afternoon of 11 May. A distant kinsman of the assassin, Henry Bellingham, became Conservative MP for North West Norfolk in 1983, and held junior office in"
"John Lewis (British politician) John Lewis (14 December 1912 – 14 June 1969) was a British Labour Party politician, who played a major part in the controversial arrest of society osteopath Stephen Ward, landlord of Christine Keeler in the Profumo affair of 1963. After making a fortune in industrial rubber, Lewis was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the two-seat constituency of Bolton at the 1945 general election, and became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General. The constituency was divided in a boundary review for the 1950 general election, when he was returned as MP for the new Bolton"
"the Grosvenor Shopping Centre and Weston Favell Centre. In 2015, St Giles Street in the town centre was named the ""Best British High Street"" in a national competition run by the Department for Communities and Local Government. The Northampton constituency was established in 1295, which returned two MPs to the House of Commons. Spencer Perceval was the elected MP for the constituency in 1796, and became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1809, the only Solicitor General or Attorney General to have been Prime Minister, but also the only Prime Minister to have been assassinated. John Bellingham shot him"
"a rebellion of the O'Connors in Leinster, freed the Pale from rebels, built forts, and made the English power respected in Munster and Connaught. Bellingham, however, was a headstrong man and was constantly quarreling with his council; but one of his opponents admitted that he was the best man of war that ever he had seen in Ireland. His short but successful term of office was ended by his recall in 1549. There is no evidence of him having married or having fathered children. He died of ill health in 1549. Edward Bellingham Sir Edward Bellingham (1506–1549) was an English"
"Richard Bellingham Richard Bellingham (c. 1592 – 7 December 1672) was a colonial magistrate, lawyer, and several-time governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the last surviving signatory of the colonial charter at his death. A wealthy lawyer in Lincolnshire prior to his departure for the New World in 1634, he was a liberal political opponent of the moderate John Winthrop, arguing for expansive views on suffrage and lawmaking, but also religiously somewhat conservative, opposing (at times quite harshly) the efforts of Quakers and Baptists to settle in the colony. He was one of the architects of the Massachusetts Body"
"His second daughter Augusta married John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute. He was the uncle of Sir Evelyn Wrench, editor of ""The Spectator"" Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet Sir Alan Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, (23 August 1846 – 9 June 1921) was an Anglo-Irish Conservative Member of Parliament. He was Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff of Louth and Lord Lieutenant of Louth. He was Senator of the Royal University of Ireland and Private Chamberlain to popes Pius IX, Leo XIII and Pius X. He was the father of the diplomat Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Bt. and the uncle of"
"this connection appears to be based on a footnote in James Savage's 1825 edition of John Winthrop's journals, and a genealogical tree of the Bellinghams published early in the 20th century does not mention her. However, Ann Hibbins' second husband, William Hibbins, was first married to Richard Bellingham's sister Hester but she died a year later and was buried in England. Bellingham also appears in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ""The New England Tragedies"", which fictionalizes events dealing with the Quakers. Richard Bellingham Richard Bellingham (c. 1592 – 7 December 1672) was a colonial magistrate, lawyer, and several-time governor of the Massachusetts"
"Anderson points to the lack of any concrete evidence to support it. In the months immediately following her husband's execution, Mary Bellingham continued to live and work in Liverpool. By the end of 1812 her business had failed, and thereafter her movements are obscure; she may have reverted to her maiden name. In January 1815, Jane Perceval married Sir Henry William Carr; she died, aged 74, in 1844. In 1828, ""The Times"" reported that Cornish industrialist landowner, John Williams the Third (1753–1841) received a dream warning of Perceval's assassination on 2 or 3 May 1812, nearly ten days before the"
"Henry Bellingham Sir Henry Campbell Bellingham (born 29 March 1955) is a British Conservative politician and former barrister. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Norfolk in 1983. He lost his seat in 1997, but regained it in 2001 and has since retained it. He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 14 May 2010, a position he held until 5 September 2012. Bellingham was born on 29 March 1955 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He is the son of Arthur Henry Bellingham and his wife June Marion Cloudesley"
"Henry Bellingham Sir Henry Campbell Bellingham (born 29 March 1955) is a British Conservative politician and former barrister. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Norfolk in 1983. He lost his seat in 1997, but regained it in 2001 and has since retained it. He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 14 May 2010, a position he held until 5 September 2012. Bellingham was born on 29 March 1955 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He is the son of Arthur Henry Bellingham and his wife June Marion Cloudesley"
"John Felton (assassin) John Felton ( – 29 November 1628) was a lieutenant in the English Army who stabbed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to death in the Greyhound Pub of Portsmouth on 23 August 1628. John Felton was born around 1595, possibly in Suffolk, to a family related to the Feltons of Playford in Suffolk and distantly related to Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel. His father, Thomas Felton, prospered as a pursuivant, one appointed to the task of hunting down those who refused to attend Anglican church services (""see recusancy""). His mother, Elanor, was the daughter of"
"Sir Henry Bellingham, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Bellingham, 1st Baronet (d. October 1650) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1625 to 1626. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Bellingham was the son of Sir James Bellingham and his wife Agnes Curwen, daughter of Sir Henry Curwen. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1609, and admitted to the Middle Temple a year later. On 30 May 1620, he was created a baronet, of Hilsington, in the County of Westmorland by King James I of England. He was"
"and IT, which commissions local creatives to collaborate on projects, run workshops and events for the community and provide opportunities and connections for professionals working in the creative industry. John Bellingham, the only man to assassinate a British Prime Minister (Spencer Perceval on 11 May 1812), lived in St Neots. Footballers John Gregory, Lee Philpott, and Tim Breacker are from the town, as well as Olympic High Jump Bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz and Olympic fencer Graham Paul. Multiple World short course swimming champion Mark Foster also lives in St Neots. Other people from the town include actor Rula Lenska. St"
"George Bellingham George Henry John Bellingham (15 February 1862 – 28 July 1932) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1900 to 1908, representing South Province. Bellingham was born in Maldon, Victoria, to Caroline Elizabeth (née Addison) and Henry Bellingham. He served a five-year apprenticeship with an Adelaide-based surveying and engineering firm, and spent time working as a surveyor in Queensland before eventually returning to Victoria, where he was employed by Victorian Railways. Bellingham arrived in Western Australia in 1891, and joined the colony's Lands and Surveys Department. He started his"