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 520 CANNING and at Ch. Ch. Oxford; B.A. 1791; M.A. 1794; Hon. D.C.L. 16 June 1 8 14; Barrister (Lincoln's Inn). M.P. (Tory) for Newtown, Isle of Wight 1793-96; for Wendover 1 796-1 802; for Tralee 1802-06; for Newtown (again) 1806-07; ^or Hastings 1807-12; for Liverpool 1812-23; for Harwich 1823-26; for Newport (I. of W.) 1826-27; and for Seaford, Apr. to Aug. 1827. Under Sec. of State for foreign affairs 1796-99; Com. for India 1779-1801; Joint Paymaster of the Forces 1800-01; P.C. 28 May 1800; Treasurer of the Navy, 1804-06; Sec. of State for foreign affairs, 1807-09, and again 1822-27, becoming First Lord of the Treasury,(^) Chancellor of the Exchequer, Prime Minister, Apr. 1827, which office he held till his death. He d. at Chiswick Villa, Midx., 8, and was hur. from Downing Str., 16 Aug. 1827, in Westm. Abbey, aged 57. Will dat. 20 Sep. 1809, pr. 21 Aug. i827.(*') His widow was, on 22 Jan. 1828, cr. VISCOUNTESS CANNING OF KILBRAHAN, co. Kilkenny, with rem. as to the dignity of Viscount to the heirs male of the body of her late husband. She d. at 10 Grosvenor Sq., Midx., 14, and was bur. 23 Mar. 1837, in Westm. Abbey, aged 6o.('') Will pr. 1837. II. 1837. I and 2. Charles John (Canning), Viscount Can- ning OF Kilbrahan, 3rd('^) and yst. but only surv. s. and EARLDOM. h., b. 14 Dec. 18 12, at Gloucester Lodge, Brompton, ■. „ Midx.; ed. at Eton, and at Ch. Ch. Oxford; ist class in -•" classics, 2nd in mathematics, and B.A. 1833; M.P. o^ (Conservative) for Warwick, 1 836-37 ;(') Under Sec. of State for foreign affairs, 1841-46; Ch. Com. of Woods and Forests, Mar. to July 1846; P.C. 18 Mar. 1846; (*) For this office see Appendix D to this volume. C") His " precocious apostasy " from the Whigs is thus celebrated by Col. Fitzpatrick: " The turning of coats so common has grown, That no one thinks now to attack it; Yet never before has an instance been known Of a schoolboy turning his jacket." He never enjoyed the full confidence of his political colleagues. For a contrast between him and Castlereagh, see note suh Robert, Marquess of Londonderry [1821]. His talents as an author were shown, not only by his editorship of The Microcosm, when at Eton, and in 1789 by his Pilgrimage of Mecca, which obtained the Chan- cellor's Latin prize for verse at Oxford, but, more especially, by his inimitable poems in the Anti-'J acohin, whereby he held up the " Party of Revolution " to the bitterest ridicule. An interesting account of him is given in Canning and his Friends, by Capt. Joscelin Bagot, 1909. G.E.C. and V.G. ("=) Her contemporaries admired her clear vigorous style of writing, and general intelligence. V.G. C^) Of his elder brothers (i) George Charles, b. 1 80 1, d. v. p. and unm., in 1820. (2) William Pitt, ent. the Navy, and d. unm. v.m., being drowned off Madeira in 1828. V.G. (') He followed Peel in 1846, and after his death was one of the leading Peelites. V.G.