unlike US Presidents,only one British Prime Minister was shot. this was Spencer Perceval who was shot in the lobby of the house of Commons in 1812. His murderer was John Bellingham,a bankrupt bussinessman.Bellingham was angry at the govanment because it had refused to held him when he had been arrested and put in prison while doing business in Russia. percaval died almost imediately and Bellingham was hanged within a week.