See Also: oscinian(medicine)
Perceval(encyclopedia)
Perceval, Spencer(encyclopedia)

Perceval, Spencer (sh) and oscinian (medicine)


Perceval, Spencer (sh)




born Nov. 1, 1762, London, Eng.
died May 11, 1812, London

British prime minister (1809-12).

He entered Parliament in 1796 and supported William Pitt's policy of war with France. He served as attorney General (1802-06) and as chancellor of the Exchequer (1807-09). As premier from 1809, he was noted as an efficient administrator but also for his opposition to religious tolerance. He was assassinated by a deranged man who had applied to him for redress of a complaint against the government.


oscinian (medicine)


oscinian


1. <ornithology> One of the Oscines, or singing birds.

2. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family Oscinidae. Some, whose larvae live in the stalks, are very destructive to barley, wheat, and rye; others, as the barley fly (Oscinis frit), destroy the heads of grain.

Source: Websters Dictionary