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| | STRATFORD - LoveToKnow Article on STRATFORD |
 | | Canning did not agree on all points with his superior, Lord Aberdeen, and in 1829 he, for the time being, turned from diplomatic to parliamentary life. | | | His father, Stratford Canning, uncle of George Canning (q.v.), had been disinherited for his marriage with Mehetabel Patrick. | | | Her death in child-birth in 1818, had a strong influence in inducing him to resign his post, of which he was thoroughly tired. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/ST/STRATFORD.htm
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| | George Canning (1770 -- 1827) |
| | Canning was a supporter of an amendment to the Corn Laws and of the abolition of slavery; throughout his time at the Foreign Office, he fought to uphold Britain's best interests. | | | Canning had to open negotiations with Lord Lansdown, the leader of the Whigs, in an effort to form a coalition government; he was successful in bringing in Lansdown and the Duke of Devonshire. | | | Canning returned to his original seat at Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1806 but did not serve as a minister in Lord Grenville's ministry. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Canning George |
| | George Canning held a number of political posts in the British government; when he delivered this speech Canning was serving as foreign secretary... | | | Canning, George (1770-1827), British statesman, prime minister of Great Britain and Ireland (1827). | | | Monroe drew into his Cabinet three of the leading men of the day: John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State, William H. Crawford as Secretary of the... |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/Canning_George.html
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| | George Canning |
| | Yet the fact remains that when Canning came into office in September 1822, he found the instructions to be given to the representative of the British government at the congress of Verona already drawn up by his predecessor, who had meant to attend the congress himself. | | | The father of the statesman, also named George, was the eldest son of Stratford Canning, of Garvagh. | | | In April of 1809 he had told the Duke of Portland that Lord Castlereagh, secretary for the colonies and war, was in his opinion unfit for his post, and must be removed to another office. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/366/000095081
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| | William Hazlitt's Essay from The Spirit of the Age, "The Right Hon. George Canning." |
| | Canning is a conventional speaker; he is an optional politician. | | | Canning, who has all his life been defending the most odious and mischievous men and measures, passes, on that very account, for a most amiable character and an accomplished statesman. | | | Hone is not a Cabinet Minister, and therefore is not allowed to take liberties with the Liturgy. |
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http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/SpiritAge/Canning.htm
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| | George Canning |
| | Canning refused office because he was unwilling to serve in the same government as Lord Castlereagh. | | | George's father died when he was one year old leaving the family in poor financial circumstances. | | | George Canning's uncle, a reformer, arranged for him to meet leading Whig politicians such as Charles Fox. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRcanning.htm
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| | George Canning |
| | Canning was known for his opposition to parliamentary reform and his advocacy of Catholic emancipation. | | | In 1807 Canning was made Foreign Secretary under the Duke of Portland. | | | When Castlereagh discovered in September 1909 that Canning had made with the Duke of Portland to have him removed from office, he was furious. |
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http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page156.asp
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| | FRENCH CANNINGS: George Canning of Cleveland Ohio and of France |
| | FRENCH CANNINGS: George Canning of Cleveland Ohio and of France | | | The Canning family home was on Elgin Avenue, where the rest of the wonderful generation of Cannings known to us today were born and raised. | | | After Annette was born, George and Annie moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where George became Secretary of Cleveland City Forge (and Iron), one of Cleveland's best companies, originally a marine hardware manufacturing company. |
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http://www.lionsgrip.com/famgeorge.html
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| | August 8th |
| | In 1800, Canning was married to Joan Scott, a daughter of General Scott, who brought with her a dowry of £100,000. | | | Canning was only prime minister during a few months preceding his death. | | | It was written by himself and three school-fellows, and was published at Windsor, weekly, from November 1786 to August 1787. |
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http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/aug/8.htm
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| | BBC - History - George IV (1762 - 1830) |
| | He intrigued against the 2nd Earl of Liverpool, prime minister from 1820 to 1827, but approved of George Canning, who became foreign secretary in 1822 and prime minister in 1827. | | | When the restrictions of that statute expired in February 1812, George decided to retain his father's ministers. | | | In November 1810 his father, George III, became permanently insane and, under the terms of the Regency Act, George took over. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/george_iv_king.shtml
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| | Canning, George on Encyclopedia.com |
| | However, he quarreled with Lord Castlereagh, and after a duel, in which Canning was wounded, both resigned from the ministry. | | | After the resignation of Lord Liverpool, Canning became (Apr., 1827) prime minister, but he died four months later. | | | He later served (1816-20) as president of the board of control for India, resigning in protest against the government's prosecution of Queen Caroline. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/CanningG1.asp
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| | Berkshire History: Biographies: George Canning (1770-1827) |
| | The startling change that Canning inaugurated in British policy during his five years' tenure of this office (1822-7) built upon the foundations that Castlereagh had laid. | | | When Perceval succeeded Portland, Canning refused to serve under him, and did his best to foment the impatience and jealousy of his friend Wellesley, who had taken the Foreign Office. | | | After Waterloo, Canning, who had recently been spending much time abroad, accepted the office of President of the India Board in 1816 and continued to support Liverpool’s Government until Queen Caroline’s trial in 1820. |
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http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/gcanning.html
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| | George Canning Papers |
| | In forming his ministry, Canning insisted upon calling Whigs to his cabinet, enraging a large segment of his party. | | | He served as under secretary of state for foreign affairs and commissioner of the board of control in the Pitt ministry and became paymaster general in 1800. | | | When the controversy over Queen Caroline arose in 1820, he refused to participate in the proceeding against her and resigned, later accepting the post of governor general of India. |
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http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/Arlenes/C/Canning.html
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| | George Canning -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | He served as prime minister of Great Britain for only four months in 1827, but George Canning was nevertheless one of the most influential British politicians during the first half of the 19th century. | | | Brief biography of George Washington, the first President of the United States of America. | | | British statesman known for his liberal policies as foreign secretary (1807–09, 1822–27) and as prime minister for four months during 1827. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9020010
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| | Canning, George |
| | In 1809, Canning had a running argument with Lord Castlelreagh concerning the Walchern Expedition, the argument led to a duel which took place on 21st September 1809, Canning received a wound to the leg, he immediately resigned from office. | | | After which his mother sent the young Canning to be raised by his uncle, a Whig banker. | | | Two years later he was appointed under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, a position he held until the resignation of his friend Pitt in 1801. |
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| | Britannica India: Biographies |
| | From this unsatisfactory environment, George Canning was taken away by a wealthy uncle, Stratford Canning, who raised him with his own children, one of whom was the future diplomat Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe. | | | British statesman known for his liberal policies as foreign secretary (1807—09, 1822—27) and as prime minister for four months during 1827. | | | After graduating (1791), he soon decided on a political career and, in July 1792, came under the influence of the prime minister, William Pitt, who undertook to find him a seat in Parliament. |
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http://www.britannicaindia.com/biographies_newtry.asp?id=226
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| | Canning genealogy |
| | George Wentworth Warwick Bampfylde Born 23rd September 1882. | | | Following his father's death, he grew up in the family of his uncle, Stratford Canning 1744 - 1787. | | | Married 10th March 1910 George Wentworth Warwick Bampfylde (born 23rd September 1882, died 13th July 1965). |
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| | Charles John Canning |
| | He did not, however, sit long in the House of Commons; for, on the death of his mother in 1837, he succeeded to the peerage which had been conferred on her with remainder to her only surviving son, and as Viscount Canning took his seat in the House of Lords. | | | The new governor sailed from England in December 1855, and entered upon the duties of his office in India at the close of February 1856. | | | This post he held until January 1846; and from January to July of that year, when the Peel administration was broken up, Lord Canning filled the post of commissioner of woods and forests. |
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| | Canning River Refuge Art Gazetteer |
| | The confusion about a deceased expedition member might have arisen because George Canning died in 1827, and so was already dead by the time Franklin edited his journals after his return to England. | | | According to Orth's Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, the Canning was named by British explorer Sir John Franklin in 1826 in honor of a deceased member of his second overland expedition to the area. | | | However, recent research by Dave Mullington and Bill Kavanagh indicates that Franklin probably named the river after British prime minister George Canning. |
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| | Biographical note on Stratford Canning |
| | The reward for marrying against his father’s wishes was disinheritance, a fate he shared with his eldest brother, George Canning ?1736 – 1771, whose own son, Stratford’s nephew, would fetch up as a British Prime Minister. | | | One son would die as Wellington’s Adc at Waterloo and another would be a controversial diplomat. | | | Stratford initially complied with his father’s determination that he should not marry Mehatabel Patrick, daughter of a neighboring Dublin family, superficially similar in station to the Cannings. |
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http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/obitandbiog_Stratford_Canning1744.htm
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| | Cannings own opinion of the matter is given in his letters to Frere in the years 1801Lo05. | | | Addington vainly endeavored to per- suade Canning to remain, anxious, no doubt, that the satirists talents should be enlisted on his side. | | | Cannings children were also very dear to him. |
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| | Canning was still acting as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and was necessarily cautious, but Mr. | | | Gifford wishes much for contributors, and is exceedingly anxious that you should assist him as often as you can afford time.... | | | Heber, too, would apply to his brother at your request, and his friend Coplestone, who will also be written to by a friend of Gifford's...." Scott was very desirous of enlisting George Canning among the contributors to the Quarterly. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/0/8/8/10884/10884.txt
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| | GEORGE CANNING - THIRD PERSON AUTOGRAPH LETTER 07/08/1909 |
| | Canning to go down to the Office early...." George Canning served as British Foreign Secretary from 1807-1810 and 1822-1827 and as Prime Minister from April 10, 1827 until his death on August 8, 1827. | | | Canning presents his compliments to the Count J. de Perysage and entreats his forgiveness for not meeting him according to his appointment here this morning. | | | The arrival of intelligence from the Baltick (sic) has made it necessary for Mr. |
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http://www.galleryofhistory.com/archive/3_2003/leaders/GEORGE_CANNING.htm
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| | Canning, George |
| | George Canning, British Tory politician and prime minister for four months during 1827. | | | He resigned as foreign secretary in 1809 after blaming his colleague Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of War, for two British defeats. | | | The two men fought a duel on Wimbledon Common to settle the matter, during which Canning was wounded in the thigh. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0003364.html
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| | Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos: George Canning |
| | Canning was a considerable public speaker, an abolitionist and a supporter of Catholic emancipation. | | | Educated at Eton College and Christ Church College, Oxford, at the expense of his banker uncle, Canning's own father having died when he was a baby |
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http://www.dukesofbuckingham.org/people/politicians/pms/george_canning.htm
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| | Congress of Verona |
| | George Canning - Canning, George, 1770–1827, British statesman. | | | This decision was protested by the British foreign minister, George | | | Canning was converted to Toryism by the French... |
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| | George Canning's Address on the King's Message Respecting Portugal |
| | George Canning's Address on the King's Message Respecting Portugal | | | But he met with some opposing arguments from members of the House and with an amendment, moved by Mr. | | | The Congress of Verona (1822) permitted French intervention of Spain, but Canning, who had opposed such procedure, finally decided on the policy which he herein mentions. |
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| | STUART MSS. |
| | During 1823 Portugal requested British mediation with Brazil, and it was only after long, tortuous and futile negotiations that George Canning decided, in the interests of all the states concerned, to dispatch a special mission to Portugal and Brazil to arrange the terms. | | | Gautier; George IV, king of Great Britain; William Gifford; Francisco Gomes da Silva; Sir Robert Gordon; Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st earl Granville; John Gurwood; William Richard Hamilton; Sir Andrew Snape, 1st bart. | | | Although Sir Charles Stuart succeeded in achieving his first objective, the recognition of Brazilian independence by Portugal, his mission was not an unqualified success. |
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| | Bremen records and the Bureau Veritas state that the Bremen sailing ship, later bark, GEORGE WASHINGTON was 450 tons, built at New York in 1822. | | | She sailed originally in the Hurlbut Line of sailing packets between New York and Havre, with the winter crossing (between December and March) from Havre to New Orleans, until mid-1854, when she was transferred to Hurlbut's New York- Antwerp service. | | | Bremen ship GEORGE WASHINGTON, [Mathias] Probst, master, arrived New New York 12 June 1848, from Bremen 2 May, with 186 passengers. |
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| | Whether he would have been even more successful if he had had a longer tenure as Prime Minister can only be speculated. | | | Slight hues of red, white and blue are seen through the gilding on the fore-edge, when fanned, a portrait of George Washington is displayed, with an eagle holding the shield of the United States and a banner, bravely announcing "The stars of North America," with thirteen white stars above it. | | | An American imprint such as this, let alone one with the American president's likeness, would not have been readily available in London bookshops, in a country that popularized fore-edge painting. |
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| | The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston by Karl Marx |
| | [8] Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of, 1784-1860, Tory and Peelite minister. | | | The right to vote restricted by property qualifications. | | | [31] Canning, Sir Stratford, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, 1786-1880. |
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| | This Web Site was Created 2 May 2005 with Legacy 5.0 from Millennia | | | Ancestors of George Thomas Johnson of Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, England |
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| | Stratford Canning; created Lord Stratford de Redcliffe; ambassador at the | | | Lord George Bentinck, M.P.; became an eminent financier and a leading | | | F. and S. Canning, George; created Lord Canning; Premier, 1827. |
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| | GEORGE CANNING HILL |
| | George Canning Hill, author and journalist, son of George Hill and his wife, Hannah Dunham, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, February 10, 1825. |
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| | NYPL, James Gillray |
| | Canning, who in his youth had collaborated in a satirical weekly, The Microcosm, was one of the moving forces behind the reactionary newspaper the Anti-Jacobin. | | | His close association with the government is also reflected in his increased political awareness, particularly of foreign affairs. | | | The newspaper was published by John Wright and edited by William Gifford, with contributions from George Canning, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, John Hookham Frere, and others. |
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| | Poet: George Canning - All poems of George Canning |
| | Statesman, who served as secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, paymaster-general and treasurer of the navy under William Pitt. | | | Canning was descended from a branch of the family which had settled in Ulster; James I granted the manor of Garvagh (Londonderry) in 1618. | | | The reign of George III; the reign of George IV; the reign of William IV; Bute; Chatham; Grenville; Rockingham; the American War of Independence;... |
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http://www.poemhunter.com/george-canning/poet-36152
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| | George Canning Wales - Lithograph |
| | Color lithograph of two frigates, the Constellation and the Boston. | | | Born in Boston in 1868, George Canning Wales. |
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| | Alibris: George Canning |
| | George Canning, to his constituents at Liverpool, on Saturday, March 18th, 1820, at the celebration of his fourth election. | | | by George Canning, Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) | | | by George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis, William Gifford, Charles Edmund Carrington |
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| | British Foreign Secretary George Canning's Overture for a Joint Declaration with the United States on the Spanish ... |
| | British Foreign Secretary George Canning's Overture for a Joint Declaration with the United States on the Spanish Colonies in America, 1823 | | | Before leaving Town, I am desirous of bringing before you in a more distinct, but still in an unofficial and confidential, shape, the question which we shortly discussed the last time that I had the pleasure of seeing you. | | | Nothing could be more gratifying to me than to join with you in such a work, and, I am persuaded, there has seldom, in the history of the world, occurred an opportunity when so small an effort, of two friendly Governments, might produce so unequivocal a good and prevent such extensive calamities. |
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| | George Canning (1770-1827), Prime Minister |
| | After a brief period following the Whigs, Canning entered Parliament in 1793 as a disciple of William Pitt. | | | Canning clashed with Lord Castlereagh over war strategy and fought a duel with him in 1809. | | | William Pitt addressing the House of Commons on the French Declaration of War, 1793 (also includes Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport; John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess of Camden; George Canning; Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine; Charles James Fo...) |
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| | Canning River, Western Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It, like a number of other place names in Western Australia containing the word Canning are named after George Canning, Prime Minister of England in 1827 whose government facilitated the expedition by James Stirling to establish the Swan River Colony. | | | Passengers leaving the Silver Star river steamer ferry at Coffee Point (site of the South of Perth Yacht Club), with the old Canning Bridge in the background. | | | The Canning River (32°00′S 115°51′E) is a river in Western Australia. |
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| | NPG 1832; George Canning |
| | One supporter saw it and recalled his spirit-rousing 'Portugal' speech:'Here I plant my standard and where the standard of Britain is planted no oppressor can ever come !' However Burdett, an opponent, thought him posed 'like an actor standing before a glass rehearsing a part.' | | | Lawrence depicts Canning declaiming in the House of Commons. | | | Artist associated with 356 portraits, Sitter in 13 portraits. |
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| | George Canning. 1770-1827. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. |
| | Bold I can meet,—perhaps may turn his blow! | | | ”Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.” The French Ana assign to Maréchal Villars this aphorism when taking leave of Louis XIV. | | | No, here ’s to the pilot that weathered the storm! |
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