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John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont PC FRS (24 or 25 February 1711 – 4 December 1770) was a British politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist who served as First Lord of the Admiralty. Of Anglo-Irish background, he sat in both the Irish and British Parliaments. He was the father of the Regency Era Prime Minister Spencer ...
John Perceval, 2nd earl of Egmont was an eccentric British politician and pamphleteer, a confidant of George III. Perceval sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1731 to 1748, when he succeeded to his father’s earldom in the Irish peerage. His interests, however, were in British politics.
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PERCEVAL, John, 2nd Earl of Egmont [I] (1711-70). Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
By the age of twenty he had published several anonymous political pamphlets and acquired a seat in the Irish Parliament, where his attacks on local abuses gave offense in government circles. 1 On coming of age he was put up as a government candidate for his father’s seat at Harwich, promising Walpole ‘that if he would be his friend he would be h...
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont was a British politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist who served as First Lord of the Admiralty. Of Anglo-Irish background, he sat in both the Irish and British Parliaments. He was the father of the Regency Era Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
A broadside on a anti-Semitic speech delivered by John Perceval, Earl of Egmont, against the Jewish Naturalization Bill, known as the Jew Bill; with an etching showing a bust portrait of Perceval; with letterpress title and text in three columns.
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont. (1711-1770), Statesman. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 7 portraits. Perceval had a difficult and complicated political career. In 1747, he switched parties and joined Frederick, Prince of Wales 's opposition faction. He was quickly appointed the Prince's chief political adviser. Like.
