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Hace 3 días · Peel made his maiden speech at the start of the 1810 session, when he was chosen by prime minister Spencer Perceval to second the reply to the king's speech. His speech was a sensation, famously described by the Speaker , Charles Abbot , as "the best first speech since that of William Pitt ".
Hace 4 días · Palmerston's speech was so successful that Spencer Perceval, who formed his government in 1809, asked him to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, then a less important office than it was to become later.
Hace 3 días · With one exception.In 1812, the British Prime Minister was Spencer Perceval, a fierce proponent of the battle against Napoleonic France and an opponent of the slave trade. His harsh measures to finance the war had made him very unpopular in the country.
Hace 1 día · The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:
Hace 4 días · Around 1790 two nephews of Drummond also became active in the affairs of the Northampton Estate. They were Charles Compton (1760–1828), a man of letters and the heir apparent, and his cousin Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), a lawyer and aspiring politician.
Hace 3 días · Notes on the aldermen, 1502-1700. 1502. Henry Kebyll. He gave £1,000 for the rebuilding of St. Mary's Aldermary Church, where he was afterwards buried, but 'his bones were unkindly cast up' (Stow, i., 253). Two later Lord Mayors, Sir William Laxton (1544–5) and Sir Thomas Lodge (1562–3) were buried in his vault. 1504.
Hace 4 días · Registrar 1660-1870. This office was granted by letters patent under seal of the Admiralty Court. (fn. 11) Until the resignation of the Duke of York in 1673 the letters patent were issued in the name of the Lord High Admiral; thereafter by the crown. In 1691 Thomas Bedford, who had received a reversionary grant to the office in 1679, had his ...
