Perceval ministry

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Perceval ministry

1809–1812

Perceval (1812)

Date formed| 4 October 1809 (1809-10-04)
Date dissolved| 11 May 1812 (1812-05-11)
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|

* George Ponsonby
in the House of Commons

* Lord Grenville
in the House of Lords

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

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Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office

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* First Lord of the Treasury
* Leader of the House of Commons
* Chancellor of the Exchequer
* Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Spencer Perceval

(head of ministry)| 4 October 1809 (1809-10-04)| 11 May 1812 (1812-05-11)
Lord Chancellor|

John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

| 1807 (1807)| 1827 (1827)
Lord President of the Council|

John Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

| 26 March 1807 (1807-03-26)| 8 April 1812 (1812-04-08)

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

| 8 April 1812 (1812-04-08)| 11 June 1812 (1812-06-11)
Lord Privy Seal|

John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland

| 1807 (1807)| 1827 (1827)
Secretary of State for the Home Department|

Richard Ryder

| 1 November 1809 (1809-11-01)| 8 June 1812 (1812-06-08)
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|

Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst

| 1 November 1809 (1809-11-01)| 6 December 1809 (1809-12-06)

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

| 6 December 1809 (1809-12-06)| 4 March 1812 (1812-03-04)

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

| 4 March 1812 (1812-03-04)| 12 August 1822 (1822-08-12)
President of the Board of Trade|

Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst

| 31 March 1807 (1807-03-31)| 29 September 1812 (1812-09-29)

* Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
* Leader of the House of Lords

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

| 1 November 1809 (1809-11-01)| 11 June 1812 (1812-06-11)
First Lord of the Admiralty|

Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave

| 1807 (1807)| 1810 (1810)

Charles Philip Yorke

| 1810 (1810)| 1812 (1812)
Master-General of the Ordnance|

John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham

| 1807 (1807)| 1810 (1810)

Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave

| 1810 (1810)| 1819 (1819)
Minister without Portfolio|

Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby

| November 1809 (1809-11)| June 1812 (1812-06)

John Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

| 8 April 1812 (1812-04-08)| December 1812 (1812-12)

### Changes

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* 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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Cabinet members are listed in bold face.

Office  | Name  | Date

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* First Lord of the Treasury
* Leader of the House of Commons
* Chancellor of the Exchequer
* Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

| Spencer Perceval | 4 Oct 1809 - 11 May 1812
Secretaries to the Treasury | Charles Arbuthnot[b] | continued in office
Richard Wharton[c] | 8 Dec 1809
Junior Lords of the Treasury | John Foster | 6 Dec 1809 - 6 Jan 1812
William Brodrick | 6 Dec 1809 - 16 Jun 1812
William Eliot | 6 Dec 1809 - 6 Jan 1812
John Otway Cuffe, 2nd Earl of Desart | 6 Dec 1809 - 23 Jun 1810
Snowdon Barne | 6 Dec 1809 - 16 Jun 1812
Berkeley Paget | 23 Jun 1810 - 16 Jun 1812
William Wellesley-Pole | 6 Jan 1812 - 16 Jun 1812
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | 6 Jan 1812 - 16 Jun 1812
Lord Chancellor | John Scott, 1st Baron Eldon | continued in office
Lord President of the Council | John Pratt, 1st Earl Camden | continued in office
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth  | 8 Apr 1812
Lord Privy Seal | John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland | continued in office
Home Secretary | Richard Ryder | 1 Nov 1809
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | Charles Jenkinson | continued in office
Henry Goulburn | Feb 1810
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst | 11 Oct 1809
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | 6 Dec 1809
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Charles Bagot | continued in office - Dec 1809
Charles Culling Smith | Dec 1809 - Feb 1812
Edward Cooke | Feb 1812 - Jun 1812
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies | Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool | 1 Nov 1809
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies | Edward Cooke | continued in office
Charles Jenkinson | 2 Nov 1809
Robert Peel | 10 Jun 1810
Under-Secretary of State for War | Frederick Robinson | continued in office
Henry Bunbury | 2 Nov 1809
First Lord of the Admiralty | Henry Phipps, 3rd Baron Mulgrave | continued in office
Charles Philip Yorke | 4 May 1810
The Viscount Melville | 25 Mar 1812
First Secretary to the Admiralty | John Wilson Croker | 12 Oct 1809
Civil Lords of the Admiralty | Robert Plumer Ward | continued in office - 17 Jun 1811
The Viscount Palmerston | continued in office - 24 Nov 1809
James Buller | continued in office - 25 Mar 1812
Viscount Lowther | 24 Nov 1809 - 3 Jul 1810
Hon. F. J. Robinson | 3 Jul 1810 - 16 Jun 1812
Lord Walpole | 17 Jun 1811 - 16 Jun 1812
William Dundas | 25 Mar 1812 - 16 Jun 1812
President of the Board of Trade | The Earl Bathurst | continued in office
Master of the Mint
Vice-President of the Board of Trade | George Rose | continued in office
President of the Board of Control | The Earl of Harrowby | continued in office
Hon. Robert Dundas[d] | 13 Nov 1809
The Earl of Buckinghamshire | 7 Apr 1812
Secretary to the Board of Control | George Peter Holford | continued in office
Sir Patrick Murray | Jan 1810
John Bruce | Mar 1812
Master-General of the Ordnance | The Earl of Chatham | continued in office
Henry Phipps, 3rd Baron Mulgrave | 5 May 1810
Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance | Sir Thomas Trigge | continued in office
Treasurer of the Ordnance | Joseph Hunt | continued in office
Thomas Alcock | 30 Jan 1810
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance | James Murray Hadden | continued in office
Robert Moorsom | 20 Jul 1810
Clerk of the Ordnance | Cropley Ashley-Cooper | continued in office
Robert Plumer Ward | 14 Jun 1811
Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance | Thomas Thoroton | continued in office
Storekeeper of the Ordnance | Mark Singleton | continued in office
Treasurer of the Navy | George Rose | continued in office
Secretary at War | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | continued in office
Paymaster of the Forces | Charles Long | continued in office
Lord Charles Somerset | continued in office
Postmaster General | Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester | continued in office
John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich | continued in office
Surveyor General of
Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases[e] | Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie | continued in office - Jul 1810
First Commissioner of Woods and Forests | Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie | Jul 1810
Ministers without Portfolio | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland | 4 Oct 1809 - 30 Oct 1809
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby | Nov 1809 - Jun 1812
John Pratt, 1st Earl Camden | 8 Apr 1812 - Jun 1812
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond | continued in office
Chief Secretary for Ireland | William Wellesley-Pole | Oct 1809
Attorney General | Sir Vicary Gibbs | continued in office
Solicitor General | Sir Thomas Plumer | continued in office
Judge Advocate General | Charles Manners-Sutton | 8 Nov 1809
Lord Advocate | Archibald Colquhoun | continued in office
Solicitor General for Scotland | David Boyle | continued in office
David Monypenny | 22 Feb 1811
Attorney-General for Ireland | William Saurin | continued in office
Solicitor-General for Ireland | Charles Kendal Bushe | continued in office
Lord Steward of the Household | Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford | continued in office
George Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley | 19 Feb 1812
Treasurer of the Household | James Stopford, Viscount Stopford[f] | continued in office
Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn | 8 May 1812
Comptroller of the Household | Lord George Thynne | continued in office
Lord Chamberlain of the Household | George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth | continued in office
vacant[g] | 10 Nov 1810
Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford | 7 Mar 1812
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | Lord John Thynne | continued in office
Francis Seymour-Conway, Earl of Yarmouth | 14 Mar 1812
Master of the Horse | James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose | continued in office
Master of the Buckhounds | Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis | continued in office
Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners | Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe | continued in office
James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown | 26 Mar 1812
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield | continued in office

## Notes

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ Arbuthnot served as Senior Secretary.
3. ^ Wharton served as Junior Secretary.
4. ^ Dundas succeeded as the 2nd Viscount Melville on 28 May 1811.
5. ^ Merged to form the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues.
6. ^ Stopford succeeded as the 3rd Earl of Courtown on 30 March 1810.
7. ^ Upon the death of Dartmouth.

## References

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* 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.

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