Sunday, 29 December 2013

28/12 lightweight letter from Herzog

Henry Herzog, St Kilda, Vic
In part answer to Peter Waterhouse (Letters, 27/12), Britain has indeed had a prime minister assassinated. He was Spencer Perceval, shot dead on May 11, 1812, by an aggrieved merchant, John Bellingham, in the lobby of the House of Commons.

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