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Assassination of Spencer Perceval, 1812 (1906). Perceval was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a merchant who had been wrongly imprisoned in Russia. He bore a grievance against the British government after it had rejected his petitions for compensation. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. V. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1906]