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 * Clement Paston
 * Edward Paston
 * John Paston
 * Sir John Paston
 * Sir Robert Paston
 * William Paston
 * Sir William Paston
 * Sir William Paston
 * Sir William Paston
 * Benedict Pastorini
 * Francis Daniel Pastorius
 * Richard Patch
 * Thomas Patch
 * Richard Pate
 * Richard Pate
 * William Pate
 * Walter Horatio Pater
 * Paternus
 * Alexander Paterson
 * Charles William Paterson
 * Daniel Paterson
 * Emma Anne Paterson
 * James Paterson (journalist)
 * John Paterson
 * John Paterson
 * John Paterson
 * Nathaniel Paterson
 * Robert Paterson
 * Samuel Paterson
 * Thomas Paterson
 * ✅William Paterson (banker)
 * ✅William Paterson (explorer)
 * Hugh de Pateshull
 * Sir John de Pateshull
 * Martin de Pateshull
 * Peter Pateshull
 * Simon de Pateshull
 * Simon de Pateshull
 * Walter de Pateshull
 * Charles George Edward Patey
 * Janet Monach Patey
 * Thomas Patient
 * William Patin
 * Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
 * Henry John Patmore
 * Peter George Patmore
 * Andrew Archibald Paton
 * David Paton
 * George Paton
 * James Paton
 * James Paton
 * John Stafford Paton
 * ✅✅Mary Ann Paton
 * Richard Paton
 * Waller Hugh Paton
 * Patrick
 * ✅Patrick
 * John Patrick
 * Richard Patrick
 * Robert William Cochran-Patrick
 * Samuel Patrick

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 * Simon Patrick (translator)
 * ✅Simon Patrick
 * ✅Stephen Patrington
 * George Patten
 * ✅John Wilson Patten
 * Robert Patten (historian)
 * Thomas Patten (rector)
 * ✅William Patten
 * ✅William Patten (historian)
 * Matthew Pattenson
 * Patterson

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 * ✅Sir James Browne Patterson
 * John Brown Patterson
 * ✅Robert Patterson (Belfast)
 * Robert Hogarth Patterson
 * William Patterson
 * Sir John Patteson
 * John Coleridge Patteson
 * ✅Carlotta Patti
 * Hugh Lee Pattinson
 * Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison
 * Granville Sharp Pattison
 * Mark Pattison
 * William Pattison
 * Charles Patton
 * George Patton
 * Philip Patton
 * Robert Patton
 * George Pattrick
 * Richard Patys
 * Paul
 * Paul
 * ✅Paul, Earl of Orkneyl
 * ✅Paul the Silent
 * Paul Anglicus
 * Paul of St Magdalen
 * ✅✅George Onesiphorus Paul
 * Hamilton Paul
 * Isabella Howard Paul
 * John Paul
 * John Paul
 * Sir John Dean Paul
 * Lewis Paul
 * Onesiphorus Paul
 * Robert Bateman Paul
 * William de Paul
 * ✅William Paul (bishop)
 * William Paul (Jacobite)
 * Thomas Paulden

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 * Sir George Paule
 * Amias Paulet
 * ✅Amias Paulet
 * ✅Charles Paulet
 * ✅Charles Paulet
 * ✅Charles Paulet
 * ✅George Paulet
 * ✅Harry Paulet
 * Harry Paulet
 * ✅Hugh Paulet

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 * John Paulet
 * ✅John Paulet
 * Lavinia Paulet
 * ✅William Paulet
 * ✅William Paulet
 * ✅William Paulet
 * ✅Paulinus
 * ✅Paulinus
 * ✅✅James Paull (MP)
 * Abraham Walter Paulton

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 * Herbert Pauper {tick}
 * Roger Pauper
 * Sir Walter Paveley
 * William Paver
 * George Paxton
 * James Paxton
 * John Paxton
 * Sir Joseph Paxton
 * Peter Paxton
 * ✅Stephen Paxton
 * William Paxton
 * Henry Paye
 * Richard Morton Paye
 * James Payn
 * George Payne
 * George Payne
 * Henry Neville Payne
 * John Payne
 * John Payne
 * John Payne
 * John Payne
 * John Willett Payne
 * Joseph Payne
 * ✅Peter Payne
 * Sir Peter Payne
 * ✅Sir Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington
 * Robert Payne
 * Roger Payne (bookbinder)
 * Thomas Payne
 * Thomas Payne
 * ✅✅William Payne (priest)
 * ✅William Payne (painter)
 * William Henry Schofield Payne
 * ✅Robert Payne Smith
 * Maurice de Paynell
 * Thomas Paynell
 * David William Paynter
 * ✅William Paynter (academic)
 * George Peabody
 * Charles William Peach
 * Edmond Peacham
 * Henry Peacham
 * John Peachell
 * John Peachi
 * Sir Barnes Peacock
 * Dmitri Rudolf Peacock
 * Frederick Barnes Peacock
 * George Peacock
 * George Peacock
 * James Peacock
 * James Peacock
 * John Macleay Peacock
 * Lucy Peacock
 * Reginald Peacock
 * Thomas Peacock (Queens')
 * Thomas Bevill Peacock
 * ✅Thomas Love Peacock
 * Peada
 * James Peak
 * Richard Brinsley Peake
 * ✅Robert Peake
 * ✅Sir Robert Peake
 * Thomas Peake
 * Edward Lovet Pearce
 * ✅Nathaniel Pearce
 * Samuel Pearce
 * Thomas Pearce
 * William Pearce
 * ✅Zachary Pearce
 * George Peard
 * John Whitehead Peard
 * Shuldham Peard
 * Cora Pearl
 * William Pearhan
 * Steuart Adolphus Pears
 * Thomas Townsend Pears
 * Richard Pearsall
 * Robert Lucas Pearsall
 * Edward Pearse
 * Edward Pearse
 * Thomas Deane Pearse
 * William Pearse
 * Alexander Pearson
 * Anthony Pearson
 * Charles Buchanan Pearson
 * Charles Henry Pearson
 * Edward Pearson
 * Eglington Margaret Pearson
 * George Pearson (doctor)
 * Hugh Pearson
 * Hugh Nicholas Pearson
 * James Pearson
 * John Pearson John Pearson (1613–1686), bishop of Chester: fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1834-40: M.A., 1639: IU., e. 160; prebendary of Salisbury and rector of   Thoringtou, 1640; joined the last remnant of Charles I party in the west, acting as chaplain (1645) to Goring's ; forces; on the collapse of the royal cause withdrew to ! London, where he remained till the Restoration, devotimr 1 himself to study; accepted ( 1654) post of weekly preacher at St. Clement's, Eastcheap, London, where he prrachcil in substance the oeries of discourses which he published in 1659 as anExposition of the Creed within its limitthe most perfect and complete production of English dogmatic theology; while debarred from the full exercise of his ministry, defended the church with his pen against both Romanist and puritan assailants, and interested himself in promoting the polyglot bible, which established his reputation as a scholar; after the Restoration made prebendary of Ely and archdeacon of Surrey, and appointed a royal chaplain: became master of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1660; chosen with John Earle by convocation, 1661, to superintend a translation into Latin of the Book of Common Prayer; elected master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1662, and during his tenure of office wrote Vindiciae Epistolarum S. Ignatii(1672), in defence of the authenticity of the letters ascribed to Ignatius of Antioch, a position which has been confirmed by the recent labours of Zahn and Lightfoot; consecrated bishop of Chester, 1673, his elevation to the episcopate having been long delayed by the influence of the Cabal ministry: careful and painstaking in discharging his episcopal duties, though Burnet gives another account of him; a tomb was erected over his grave in Chester Cathedral (1860) by his admirers in England and America. The 1 Exposition of the Creed on which his reputation still mainly rests, has long been a standard book in English divinity. The notes of the Expositiona rich mine of patristic and general learning are at least as remarkable as the text, and form a complete catena of the best authorities upon doctrinal points. He was probably the ablest scholar and best systematic theologian among Englishmen of the seventeenth century. His learning and critical skill were greater than his originality.
 * ✅John Pearson (surgeon)
 * Sir John Pearson
 * John Loughborough Pearson
 * John Norman Pearson
 * Richard Pearson (Royal Navy officer)
 * Richard Pearson (physician)
 * Thomas Hooke Pearson
 * William Pearson (astronomer)
 * William Henley Pearson-Jervis
 * Charles Peart
 * Edward Peart
 * Edward Pease
 * Henry Pease
 * Joseph Pease
 * Thomas Peat
 * Charles Pebody
 * Richard Peche
 * ✅Sir George Richard Brooke Pechell
 * Sir Paul Pechell
 * Samuel John Brooke Pechell
 * John Pechey
 * Francis Peck
 * James Peck
 * Peter Peckard
 * Thomas Pecke
 * Sir Edmund Peckham
 * ✅George Peckham (merchant)
 * Henry Peckham
 * John Peckham John Peckham (d. 1292), archbishop of Canterbury: studied at Oxford; proceeded, c. 1250, to Paris, where he enjoyed the favour of Margaret, wife of Louis IX, and defended the doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Unity of Form; returned to Oxford, t. 1270; elected (e. 1276) ninth provincial minister of the Franciscans in England; summoned to Rome a year or two later by Pope Nicholas III, ami made Lector sacri palatii or theological lecturer in the schools in the papal palace: nominated, 1279, by Nicholas III archbishop of Canterbury very much against his will: as a friar was naturally inclined to favour the pretensions of the papal see; his tenure of office marked by several bold though ineffectual attempts to magnify ecclesiastical authority at the expense of the temporal power; his attitude made by Edward I the occasion for passing the statute of Mortmain or De Religiosis; precipitated the overthrow of Llywelyn's power by his pretensions to authority over the Welsh church, and after the completion of the conquest took various measures intended to. bring the church in Wales into conformity with English customs; in his ecclesiastical administration in England applied himself with much zeal to the correction of abuses in the church, passing statutes at the council of Rending (1279) and the council of Lambeth (1281) to check the growth of plurality; involved by his insistence on his visitorial rights (1280) in a dispute with Edward I; lost no opportunity of advancing the interests of the two great mendicant orders, especially those of his own order; appointed by Pope Nicholas III protector of the privileges of the order of minors in England; inter* posed on the behalf of the Franciscans against the Cistercians of Scarborough, 1281, and denied the claim of the Dominicans to superiority over them; condemned (1284) at Oxford certain erroneous opinions in grammar, logic, and natural philosophy, and gave a decision on the vexed question of the form of the body of Christ, involving the received doctrine of the eucharist, which brought him into conflict with the Dominicans. He was a voluminous writer of treatises on science and theology, as well as of poetry. Twenty-five of his treatises are extant, of which four have been printed,Perspectira Communis Milan, 1482),Divinaru Seutentiara Libroru Biblie ad certos titulos redacte Collectariu (Paris, 1613), De Summit Trinitate et Fide Catholica * (London, 1510), Philomela (Paris, 1503), the last erroneously printed among the works of St. Bona venture.
 * William Peckitt
 * Henry Peckwell
 * ✅Robert Henry Peckwell
 * ✅Reginald Pecock
 * Pecthelm
 * ✅Pectwin
 * John Pedder (dean)
 * James Peddie
 * John Peddie (British Army officer)
 * William Peddie
 * Alexander Peden
 * Jonathan Peel
 * Sir Lawrence Peel
 * Paul Peel
 * Robert Peel
 * Sir Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, second baronet (1788–1850), statesman; eldest son of Sir Robert Peel, first baronet ; educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford; double first class, 1807; tory M.P. for Cushel (seat bought for him by his father), 1809; under-secretary for war and the colonies under Lord Liverpool, 1810-12; chief secretary for Ireland, 1812-18; successfully opposed catholic emancipation, and established the peace preservation police, vulgarly called peelers; met with vehement opposition from O'Connell, with whom he declined a duel, 1815; M.P., Oxford University. 1817; carried 'Peel's Act (1819) providing for the resumption of cash payments in 1823; began to distrust rigorously unchanging toryism as a political creed; rejoined Lord Liverpool's ministry as home secretary, 182?; after effecting important reforms in criminal law, resigned office on account of his opposition to catholic emancipation (April 1827); after Canning's death (August 1827) laboured successfully to reunite the tory party, and in January 1828 joined Wellington's administration as home secretary and leader of the House of Commons; abandoned his opposition on finding the country determined on catholic emancipation, and (March 1829) introduced a bill for granting the measure; M.P., Westbury, 1829, Tamworth, 1830 and 1833; resigned office (November 1830) on the defeat of Wellington's government; became premier (November 1834) at the instance of William IV, holding the offices of first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer; confronted in the Commons by a hostile majority, and outvoted six times in six weeks; resigned office (April 1835), and retiring to opposition gradually bnilt up a great party, which became known as the conservative party, a name first   wuvi -11*00 AHUA., 1DO, UUL  gained I uge in 1831, its policy being to maintain intact the established constitution of church and state; on the  resignation of Melbourne, 1839, summoned to form a  cabinet, but was unable to acquiesce in the retention of the whig ladies of the bedchamber, on which Melbourne resumed office; the question of the household being decided in his favour, and the government having been defeated, Peel formed a ministry, Aug. 1841; seyen past or future prime ministers and five future viceroys of India members of his party; held no post beyond that of first lord of the treasury; introduced (1842) his first budget, in which he began his task of lightening the burden of indirect taxation, and make good the temporary deficiency by the imposition of an incometax; had repealed 605 duties by 1846, largely reducing 1,035 others; increased consumption by this system of lightening imposts on trade; ensured for English trade    :    , T.; entered the army, 1816; major-general,    the country so much that the funds rose from 89 almost to par; reorganised the Bank of England, and initiated a policy of reform in Ireland, which, however, he had not been able to carry very far before the downfall of his ministry; the great work of his administration was the repeal of the corn laws; steadily opposed the cry for repeal till 1845, although desirous of ameliorating the condition of consumers; inclined to free trade by his experiment*   relaxation of other duties; led by the failure of th i 1815, with its threat of Imminent famine, to ;i m.r;iMirt-involving the ultimate repeal of the aws failed to carry his cabinet with him, and d, 9 Dec. 1845; resumed office, 20 Dec. 1845, Lord Msell having failed to form a government,.-upby all bis former colleagues except Stan! wards Lord Derby): introduced (January 1846) his corn law and customs bill into the Commons, in which he proposed the total repeal of the corn duties, though the ports were not to be completely opened till 1849; in spite of the strenuous resistance of many of his former followers succeeded in getting the bill passed through the Lords by 25 June 1846, but on the same night was defeated in the Commons over the first reading of his Irish bill by a combination of whigs and protectionists; resigned office, 29 June 1846; refused the Garter; during the few succeeding years of opposition organised no party, but constituted himself the guardian of the policy of free trade and the mainstay of the whig government; thrown from his horse on Constitution Hill, 29 June 1850, and died from his injuries on 2 July. In an age of revolution he alone had the foresight and strength to form "a conservative party, resting not on force or corruption, but on administrative capacity and the more stable portion of the public will. While always decided in his measures, when he had resolved on a line of action, no statesman was more controlled by a sense of public duty. Wellington said of him, I never knew a man in whose truth and justice I had more lively confidence
 * Robert Pedley
 * Pedrog
 * David Peebles
 * Richard Peecke
 * John Peel
 * Sir Robert Peel
 * Sir William Peel
 * William Yates Peel
 * George Peele
 * Thomas Peend
 * Richard Peers
 * William Peer
 * William Peeris
 * Richard Peers
 * Andrew Peerson
 * Martin Peerson
 * Gerard Peeters
 * John Peeters
 * ✅✅Christopher Pegge
 * ✅Samuel Pegge
 * ✅Samuel Pegge (the younger)
 * Thomas Williamson Peile
 * James Peirce

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 * Francis Peirson
 * ✅Pelagius
 * Joyce Pelgrim
 * Edmund Pelham 243
 * ✅Frederick Thomas Pelham
 * ✅George Pelham (bishop) 243
 * ✅Henry Pelham 244
 * ✅Henry Pelham (engraver) 251 sub
 * ✅Henry Thomas Pelham 247
 * Herbert Pelham 248

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 * John de Pelham 248
 * ✅John Thomas Pelham 250
 * Nicholas Pelham sub 243
 * Peter Pelham 250
 * ✅Sir Thomas Pelham 251
 * Thomas Pelham 252
 * Thomas Pelham 252
 * ✅William Pelham (lord justice) 255
 * Thomas Pelham-Holles Sir Thomas Pelham-Holles, fifth baronet, first Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and of Newcastle under Lyme, Earl of Clare, second Baron Pelham of Laughton, and first Baron Pelham of Stanmer (1693-1768), eldest son of Sir Thomas Pelham, first baron Pelham: of Westminster School and Clare Hall, Cambridge; created LL. D., 1728; chancellor of Cambridge University, 1748; assumed the name of Holies, 1711, on succeeding to the estates of his uncle, John Holies, duke of Newcastle; created Earl of Clare, 1714, Duke of Newcastle, 1715; adhered at first to Townshend, but on the schism of 1717 went over to Suuderland and was made lord chamberlain; became secretary of state for the southern department, 1724; as Walpole's power declined began to coquet with the opposition, aud increased Walpole's difficulties by his high tone to the Spanish court on the occasion of the merchantspetition; on Walpole's resignation managed the negotiations which led to the formation of Lord Wilmington's administration, retaining the seals of the southern department for himself; took advantage of the Jacobite rebellion to force Pitt on George II as secretary of war, 1746; succeeded Pelham as first lord of the treasury, 1754, but was driven to resign, 1766, by the ill-success of the French war: formed a coalition with Pitt, 1757. but in 1762, having acquiesced in forcing Pitt out of office, found he hail played into Bute's bands, and was driven to resign; pursued into retirement by Bute's hostility and deprivul.i his posts; lost his adherents in face of this proscription; was lord privy seal in Rockiugham's administration (July 1765 to August 1766). Many stories are told of his ignorance of common things; though a master of political corruption, he was not himself corrupt, aud died 300,000. poorer for his lialf-century of official life.
 * John Pell
 * Watkin Owen Pell
 * William Pell (minister)

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 * Apsley Pellatt
 * Carlo Pellegrini
 * Thomas Pellett
 * Sir Edward Pellew
 * Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew
 * George Pellew
 * Israel Pellew
 * Thomas Pellew
 * Edward Pellham
 * Edward Pelling
 * John Henry Pelly
 * Lewis Pelly
 * Saville Marriott Pelly
 * Robert Pember
 * Charles Reece Pemberton
 * Christopher Robert Pemberton
 * Sir Francis Pemberton
 * Henry Pemberton
 * Thomas Pemberton
 * William Pemble
 * Christopher Pembridge
 * Richard de Pembridge
 * Earls of Pembroke
 * ✅Titular Earl of Pembroke
 * Countesses of Pembroke
 * Thomas Pembrooke
 * Stephen de Pencester
 * Penda
 * John Pendarves
 * Sir John Pender
 * Richard Penderel
 * ✅Sir Thomas Pendergrass
 * Henry Pendlebury
 * James Pendlebury
 * Frederick Henry Snow Pendleton
 * Henry Pendleton
 * Uther Pendragon
 * Sir Thomas Pengelly
 * William Pengelly
 * Edward Penington
 * Isaac Penington
 * Isaac Penington
 * Sir John Penington
 * John Penington
 * Thomas Penketh
 * John Penkethman
 * Aaron Edwin Penley
 * Granville Penn
 * James Penn
 * John Penn
 * John Penn
 * John Penn
 * John Penn
 * Richard Penn
 * Richard Penn
 * Thomas Penn
 * Sir William Penn
 * William Penn William Penn (1644–1718), quaker and founder of Pennsylvania; son of Sir William Penn: educated at Christ Church, Oxford; from early boyhood he united a taste for athletic sports with a strong bent towards mystical pietism; sent down from Oxford for nonconformity, 1661; after some time spent in travel and naval service was admitted a student at Lincoln's Inn, 1665; attached himself to the quakers, 1667: committed to the Tower of London, 1668, for publishing his once celebratedSandy Foundation Shaken in which he assailed the Athanasian doctrine of the Trinity, the Anselmian rationale of the atonement, and the Oalvinistic theory of justification; wrote in the Tower No Cross no Crown (1669), an eloquent and learned dissertation upon the Christian duty of self-sacrifice (frequently reprinted); his release obtained by his father, July 1669, through the intercession of the Duke of York; suffered frequent persecutions and imprisonments and exerted himself to lighten the hardships of the quakers; turned his thoughts seriously to America as a refuge from persecution for his co-religionists, and (1682) obtained grants of East New Jersey and of Pennsylvania by letters patent, and as proprietor and governor was invested by the charter with executive and legislative power; formed a Free Society of Traders of Pennsylvania 1682, and framed, in concert with Algernon Sidney, a constitution and code of laws   for the colony, by which all modes of religious worship compatible with monotheiHm and religious liberty were to IK- tolerated: nailed for A:: mber 1883) and  foiichnliii a treaty with tin- Lrnni I-nupe Indians; the population of his mlony increased by a steady Influx of bunlgnntl from Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia, as well as from tin- British Isles; returned to England, 1684, hoping much from the accession of James II, whom he iHli.-vfl to be a sincere advocate of toleration, his hopes U-iuir fluttered by James II from motives of policy; being frequently closeted for hours with the king, was denounced as a Jesuit by some, and courted as a royal favourite by others; lias been charged on insufficient evidence by Lord Macaulay with having accepted the odious office of extorting from the families of theTauntou Maids the ransom assigned by James H's queen to her maids of honour: interceded with James II for the fellows of Magdalen, and endeavoured to procure the release of the seven bishops; was nevertheless summoned before the council on the Revolution as an adherent of the fugitive king, and was held to bail; remained, however, in London in constant communication with Lord Sidney and other friends at court until he obtained (1693) a formal assurance of William Ill's goodwill towards him: resumed the practice of itinerant preaching, 1693, and undertook literary work; returned to Pennsylvania (1699) with the intention of settling there for the rest of his life; came to England (1701) to oppose a bill for converting the province into a crown colony; he was well received by Queen Anne, and resided successively at Knightsbridge, at Brentford, and at Ruscomb, where he died. He was buried at Jordans, near Chalfont St. Giles. His piety was profound, and though he bad little or no interest in humane learning for its own sake, his knowledge of the Christian and pre-Christian mystics was considerable, and enabled him to give to the doctrine of the light within a certain philosophical breadth. His theological polemics, though for the most part occupied with questions of ephemeral importance, evince no small controversial power. His works were numerous; a collective edition appeared in 1726, with a life by Joseph Besse
 * William Penn
 * Richard Pennant
 * Thomas Pennant
 * Alexander Pennecuik
 * Alexander Pennecuik
 * Catherine Pennefather
 * Edward Pennefather
 * Sir John Lysaght Pennefather
 * Richard Pennefather
 * Richard Pennefather
 * William Pennefather
 * James Pennethorne
 * John Pennethorne
 * William Penney
 * John Fitzgerald Pennie
 * Isaac Pennington
 * James Pennington (economist)
 * John Pennington
 * John Pennington
 * ✅Sir Lowther Pennington
 * Montage Pennington
 * Edward Penny
 * ✅John Penny
 * John Penny
 * Nicholas Penny
 * Thomas Penny
 * John Pennycuick
 * John Farrell Pennycuick
 * John Pennyman
 * William Pennyman
 * Baron Penrhyn
 * Charles Vinicombe Penrose
 * Elizabeth Penrose
 * Francis Penrose
 * John Penrose
 * Thomas Penrose
 * John Penruddock
 * John Penry
 * ✅Barons Penshurst
 * Stephen de Penshurst
 * Joseph Barclay Pentland
 * Stephen Penton
 * Dolly Pentreath
 * Samuel Peploe
 * John Henry Pepper
 * Sir William Pepperell
 * John Christopher Pepusch
 * Henry Pepwell
 * Sir Charles Christopher Pepys
 * Henry Pepys
 * ✅✅Lucas Pepys
 * Richard Pepys
 * Samuel Pepys
 * William Hasledine Pepys
 * John Perburn
 * Alexander Perceval
 * ✅✅Arthur Philip Perceval
 * Sir John Perceval
 * Sir John Perceval
 * Philip Perceval
 * Richard Perceval
 * Robert Perceval
 * Spencer Perceval Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), statesman; second son of Sir John Perceval, second earl of Egmont q. v.; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1781; called to the bar: joined the midland circuit; obtained crown briefs on the trial of Thomas Paine, 1792, and that of Home Tooke, 1794; counsel to the board of admiralty, 1794; king's counsel, 1796; M.P., Northampton, 1796: supported Pitt In Parliament; solicitor-general under Addington, 1801; attorney-general, 1802; during Addingtons administration defended the ministry in the Commons, almost single-handed, against Pitt, Pox, and Windbam; retained office on Pitt's return to power; resigned on Pitt's death, 1806; chancellor of the exchequer mider the Duke of Portland, 1807; successful with his budget, his scheme to convert the three-percent, stock into terminable annuities being generally approved; succeeded the Duke of Portland as prime minister, 1809, but found great difficulty in forming a minUtry owing to the dissatisfaction of Canning and jh; the government formed by him generally as weak; saved his position after the disastrous It of the Walcheren expedition (1809) by forcing its r. Lord Chatham, to resign office; framed a successful budget, and, in spite of strong opposition to the continuance of the war, insisted that it must go on; though much disliked by George, prince of Wales, was retained in office by him when he became regent, 1811, on finding that be could not displace him (Perceval) without sacrificing his (the prince's) personal friends; made banknotes legal tender, July 1811, on the ground that the value of gold had appreciated owing to the drain on it for military payments: opposed In the cabinet by Lord Wellesley, who thought he was ruining the Peninsular army by bis niggardliness: assassinated, 11 May 1812, in the lobby of the House of Commons by one John Bellingham, a bankrupt, who had a grievance against government,
 * John Percival
 * John Percival
 * Robert Percival
 * Thomas Percival
 * Thomas Percival
 * Alan Percy
 * Sir Algernon Percy
 * Sir Algernon Percy
 * Lady Elizabeth Percy
 * George Percy
 * Henry Percy
 * ✅Sir Henry Percy
 * ✅Henry Percy
 * ✅Henry Percy
 * ✅Sir Henry Percy
 * ✅Henry Percy
 * ✅Sir Henry Percy
 * ✅Sir Henry Percy
 * ✅Sir Henry Percy
 * ✅Sir Henry Percy
 * ✅Sir Henry Percy
 * ✅Sir Henry Percy
 * ✅Sir Henry Percy
 * ✅Henry Percy
 * Henry Percy
 * ✅Lord Henry Hugh Manvers Percy
 * Hugh Percy
 * Sir Hugh Percy

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 * ✅Hugh Percy
 * ✅Hugh Percy (bishop)
 * James Percy
 * ✅John Percy
 * John Percy (metallurgist)
 * ✅Josceline Percy (admiral)
 * Peter Percy
 * ✅Ralph Percy
 * Reuben Percy
 * ✅Richard de Percy

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 * Sholto Percy
 * Sidney Richard Percy
 * Thomas Percy
 * ✅Sir Thomas Percy
 * Sir Thomas Percy
 * Thomas Percy
 * Thomas Percy
 * Thomas Percy
 * William de Percy
 * William de Percy
 * William Percy
 * William Henry Percy