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2 unusual facts about Philip Perceval


Philip Perceval

Holding, in this connection, the offices of general feodary of Ireland, escheator of Munster, and (1637) commissioner of survey into land titles in County Tipperary and County Cork, he took a prominent share in the discovery of technical defects in Irish titles; and obtained enormous transfers of forfeited lands to himself.

A member of this family, Spencer Perceval, the seventh son of the 2nd Earl was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when he was assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, in 1812.



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