When the PM met his high noon

John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey-Oswald – political assassins have been among the most vilified men in American history. However there is something distinctly British about the strong sympathy vote received by the one man who has successfully done away with a Prime Minister of this country. The Staffordshire potters even made a jug to mark his passing.

John Bellingham’s unfortunate story begins in 1803 when, as a Liverpool merchant on business in Russ…

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