Commr. of bankrupts 1790; surveyor of the meltings and clerk of the irons, Tower of London Mar. 1791; counsel to Admiralty 1794 – 1801; KC 4 Feb. 1796; bencher, L. Inn 1796, treasurer 1802; solicitor to Ordnance Aug. 1798; counsel to Camb. Univ. 1800; solicitor-gen. Feb. 1801–2, attorney-gen. Apr. 1802 – Feb. 1806; chancellor of Exchequer and leader of the House Mar. 1807 – Oct. 1809, and first ld. of Treasury 4 Oct. 1809 – d.; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster Mar. 1807 – d.
Vol. London and Westminster light horse 1794 – 1803.
Based on D. Gray, S. Perceval the Evangelical Prime Minister (1962), the Perceval (Holland) mss penes Mr David Holland and other Perceval mss in the BL. Many of Perceval’s letters were published by S. Walpole in S. Perceval (2 vols. 1874), but with alterations and omissions, so the original mss have been preferred.
PERCEVAL, Hon. Spencer (1762-1812)