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 134 CANNING. CANNING, and CANNING OF KILBRAHAN. Viscountcy. Joan Canning, widow, relict of the Kt. Hon. George I 1828 OxSKCse, was, on 22 JaOy. 1B2S, cr. VISCOUNTESS CANNING OF wl " KILBRAHAN, eo. Kilkenny, with rem. as to the dignity of Viscount to the heirs male of the body of her late husband. She was 3d and yst. da. ("J and coheir of John Scott, of Baleonie, co. Fife (Major-Gen. in the Army) by Margaret, yst. da. of Robert Dundas, Lord President of the Court of Session. On 8 July 1S00 she m. (by spee. lie. from Fae. office), the lit. Hon. George Canning abovenamed, bringing him, it is said, a fortune of £100,001). This celebrated orator and statesman was the only s. and h. of George Cumins;, of the Middle Temple, Loudou,('') by Mary Anne, da. of Jordan CosTEI.LO, of C'ounaught. He was b. 11 April 1770 in London, was ed. at Eton (where he was one of the Edit >rs of the "Microcosm") and at Ch. Ok, Oxford ; 13.A. 17'J1 ; 11. A. 1794 : Hon. D.C.I* Iti June 1814 ; Barrister at Lincoln's Inn. M.P. for Newtown, Isle of Wight 1793-98 ; for Weudover, 1796-lSol ; for Tralee, 1S02-06 ; for Newtown (again) 1806-07; for Hastings 1807-12 ; for Liverpool 1812-23; for Harwich 1823-26 ; for Newtown (the 3d time) 182u; and for Sleafonl, April to Aug. 1S27. Under See. of. State for foreign affairs 1796-1801 : Treasurer of the Navy, 1S04-06 ; See. of State for foreign nflkirs, 1S07-09, and again 1822-27, becoming Prime MINISTER, April 1827. which office he held till his death a few months later at Chiswick Villa, Midx., 8 Aug. 1827, aged 67. He was bur. from Downing street on the 16th at Westtu. Abbey. "Will dat. 20 Sep. 1809, pr. 21 Aug. 1828.( c ) His widow, Viscounties Causing, d. 14 March 1837, aged 60, at No. 10, Grosvenor so,., Midx., and was bur. 23d in Westm. Abbey. II. 1837. / and 2. Chablks Joh» (Cankdig), VisoouKT Canning Earldom 01 KTEBnAHAN, 3d and yst. but only snrv. s. and h., b. 14 Her. 1812 at Gloucester Lodge. Brompton, Midx. ; ed. at Eton ami at I. 1859, Ch. Ch., Oxford ; 1st class in classics, 2d in mathematics, and B.A. to 1833 ; M.P. for Warwick, 1836-37 ; Under See. of State for Foreign Iftgo Affairs, 1841-46 ; Ch. Com. of Woods and Forests, March to July 1846 ; P.O. 1846 ; Postmaster-Gen., 1853-65 ; Guv-Gen. ok [MMa, 18fjf>.62 ; during which period the terrible massacre of Cawnpore, in the Bengal rebellion, took place. G.C.B., 31 March 1359. On 21 May 1859 he was cr. EARL CANNING ; Hanger of Greenwich Park, 1S60 ; KG. 21 May 1S62. He hi. 5 Sep. 1836, Charlotte, 1st da. and coheir of Charles (Sti'art), Baron Stcaut BE Rothesay, by Elizabeth Margaret, da. of Philip (Youke), Eaiu. OV Hartjwicke. She, who was b. 1817 and was one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber, (/. (of jungle fever) at Calcutta 18 Nov. 1861. He d. s.p. 17 June 1862 in Grosvenor scp, Midx., aged 19, and was bur. 21st in Westm. Abbey, when all his honours became c.ctinct.{ A ) (")~The eldest da. Henrietta, to whom most of the property descended, was Duchess of Portland ; and the second da. Lucy (who d. 'A Aug. 179S), was 1st wife of John Stuart, styled Lord Doune, who was afterwards (1810) Earl of Moray [S.] ('■) He was 1st s. and h. ap. of Stratford Canning of Garvagh, co. Londonderry, and d. v.p. 11 April 1771, having offended his father by an imprudent match (May 1768) with a youug lady of great beauty, but without fortune. His next br. Paul, inherited the family estate of Garvagli, and was father of George, cr. Baron Garvagh [I.] in 1818 ; while the yst. br., Stratford Canning, was father of Stratford, cr. Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe in 1852. ( c ) His talents as an author were shewn, not only in 1789 by his " Pilgrimage of Mecca," which obtained the Chancellor's Latin prize for verse at Oxford, but, more especially, by his inimitable poems in the " Anti-Jacobin " whereby he held up the " Party of Revolution " to the bitterest ridicule. (<*) Harriet, Marchioness of Clanricarde [I.], his only sister (i. 13 April 1804 ; d. 8 Jauy. 1876) was his heir. Her only surv. s. Hubert, Marquess of Clanricarde [I.], took the final surname of Canning in compliance with his uncle's (the said Earl Canning's) testamentary direction.