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Perceval ministry | |
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1809–1812 | |
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Date formed | 4 October 1809 |
Date dissolved | 11 May 1812 |
People and organisations | |
Monarch | George III |
Represented by | Prince Regent (1811–12) |
Prime Minister | Spencer Perceval |
Total no. of members | 95 appointments |
Member party | Tory Party |
Status in legislature | Majority |
Opposition party | Whig Party |
Opposition leaders | |
History | |
Legislature terms | 4th UK Parliament |
Predecessor | Second Portland ministry |
Successor | Liverpool ministry |
This is a list of members of the government of the United Kingdom in office under the leadership of Spencer Perceval from 1809 to 1812.[a]
Cabinet
[edit]Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office |
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(head of ministry) | 4 October 1809 | 11 May 1812 | |
Lord Chancellor | 1807 | 1827 | |
Lord President of the Council | 26 March 1807 | 8 April 1812 | |
8 April 1812 | 11 June 1812 | ||
Lord Privy Seal | 1807 | 1827 | |
Secretary of State for the Home Department | 1 November 1809 | 8 June 1812 | |
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | 1 November 1809 | 6 December 1809 | |
6 December 1809 | 4 March 1812 | ||
4 March 1812 | 12 August 1822 | ||
President of the Board of Trade | The Earl Bathurst | 31 March 1807 | 29 September 1812 |
1 November 1809 | 11 June 1812 | ||
First Lord of the Admiralty | 1807 | 1810 | |
1810 | 1812 | ||
Master-General of the Ordnance | 1807 | 1810 | |
The Earl of Mulgrave | 1810 | 1819 | |
Minister without Portfolio | November 1809 | June 1812 | |
The Earl Camden | 8 April 1812 | December 1812 |
Changes
[edit]- December 1809 – Lord Wellesley succeeds Lord Bathurst as Foreign Secretary. Bathurst continues at the Board of Trade.
- May 1810 – Lord Mulgrave succeeds Lord Chatham as Master-General of the Ordnance. Charles Philip Yorke succeeds Mulgrave as First Lord of the Admiralty.
- March 1812 – Lord Castlereagh succeeds Wellesley as Foreign Secretary.
- April 1812 – Lord Sidmouth succeeds Lord Camden as Lord President. Camden remains in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio.
- May 1812 – Perceval is shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons.
List of ministers
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Notes
[edit]- ^ The Perceval ministry coincided with the start of the Regency era, when George III was formally deemed unfit to reign while his son ruled in his stead as prince regent. It dissolved with the assassination of Perceval in May 1812—the first and only assassination of a British prime minister.
- ^ Arbuthnot served as Senior Secretary.
- ^ Wharton served as Junior Secretary.
- ^ Dundas succeeded as the 2nd Viscount Melville on 28 May 1811.
- ^ Merged to form the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues.
- ^ Stopford succeeded as the 3rd Earl of Courtown on 30 March 1810.
- ^ Upon the death of Dartmouth.
References
[edit]- Cook, Chris; Stevenson, John (1980). British Historical Facts: 1760–1830. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-0-333-21512-8.
- Haydn, Joseph; Ockerby, Horace (1890). The Book of Dignities. London: W.H. Allen and Co. OL 13505280M.