Perceval 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

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.

Cabinet members are listed in bold face.

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

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