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John Bellingham | |
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![]() Bellingham in the Newgate Calendar, 1812 | |
Born | c. 1769 St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England |
Died | 18 May 1812 London, England | (aged 42–43)
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
Resting place | Dissected, skull preserved at Barts Pathology Museum |
Citizenship | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Occupation | Merchant |
Criminal status | Executed by hanging |
Spouse |
Mary Neville (m. 1803) |
Motive | see Notes |
Conviction(s) | Assassination of Spencer Perceval |
Criminal charge | Murder |
Penalty | Death by hanging |
Notes | |
Robinson (2013, p. 31): "The motive was Bellingham's groundless claim that the Crown owed him money for time he had served in a Russian prison while Perceval had been Chancellor of the Exchequer." |
John Bellingham (c. 1769 – 18 May 1812) was an English merchant and perpetrator of the 1812 murder of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assassinated.
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