Spencer Perceval (11 September 1795 – 16 September 1859) was a British

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

, the eldest son of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval and Jane Wilson. He was also one of the twelve apostles recognized by the movement associated with

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and known as the Catholic Apostolic Church. Perceval married Anna Eliza Macleod, and had several children. One daughter, Eleanor Irving Perceval ( 1879), married

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. One of his grandsons was

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. Another of his children, John Spencer Perceval, served as a lieutenant in the 1st Waikato Regiment during the

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in New Zealand. He was killed in action during the skirmish at Titi Hill, near Mauku. After he fell, several of his men attempted to move him from the field, but he would not allow this and told the men to ''"Leave me alone; revenge my death."''

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