The Spencer Perceval armchair from the Palace of Westminster - Apter-Fredericks Antique Furniture, Memorable Pieces Dealer

A Wonderful George II carved mahogany armchair. Richly carved with foliate decoration and having excellent colour and patination.
The chair bearing a label stating " In this chair, Spencer Perceval, who was made Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Duke of Portland, whom he succeeded as Premier in 1809, was shot by a madman named Bellingham in the Lobby of the House of Commons, in the year 1812. Was in the possession of the late Walter Edmundbury Godfrey of Romsey when he died in 1896".

It is unknown when the chair left the Palace of Westminster or where the chair went after 1896. We acquired the chair in 1986 and exhibited it at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair where it was purchased by a collector. Spencer Perceval remains the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated whilst in office.