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- Lord Liverpool, who succeeded to the prime ministry in 1812 on Perceval’s assassination, tried hard to induce Canning to take office, but Canning refused to allow his old rival Castlereagh (who generously offered to surrender the foreign secretaryship to him and to take the inferior office of chancellor of the Exchequer) to retain the leadership of the House of Commons.
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Liverpool wished to have Canning back in the Cabinet but the King was strongly hostile to him due to his actions over the Caroline affair. The King would only allow Canning back into the Cabinet if he did not have to deal personally with him. This required the office of Governor-General of India.
The main reason for the changes in personnel in 1822 was the suicide of Lord Castlereagh. The post of Foreign Secretary was taken by George Canning. He was brought into the Cabinet for, perhaps, all the wrong reasons, as the Duke of Wellngton pointed out in July 1821: Mr. Canning's conduct was not very advantageous to us.
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b. 11 Apr. 1770, 1st s. of George Canning, barrister, of the Middle Temple and Mary Anne, da. of Jordan Costello of Connaught. educ. Hyde Abbey sch. Winchester 1778; Eton 1783; Christ Church, Oxf. 1787; L. Inn 1787; continental tour 1791. m. 8 July 1800, Joan, da. and coh. of Maj.-Gen. John Scott† of Balcomie, Fife (cr. Viscountess Canning 22 Jan. ...
Under-sec. of state for foreign affairs Jan. 1796-Mar. 1799; recvr.-gen. alienation office 1797-d.; commr. bd. of control Mar. 1799-Mar. 1801; jt. paymaster-gen. July 1800-Mar. 1801; PC 28 May 1800; treas. of navy May 1804-Jan. 1806; sec. of state for foreign affairs Mar. 1807-Sept. 1809, Sept. 1822-Apr. 1827; amb. extraordinary to Portugal 1814-15...
One of the most singular and remarkable of the leading statesmen of the first half of the nineteenth century, Canning, who was the only serving prime minister to sit in the Commons in this period, possessed undoubted and enviable talents, not least of which was the rich and varied oratorical eloquence which gave him an absolute ascendancy in the Ho...
Unless otherwise stated, the Canning pprs. (W. Yorks. AS, Leeds, Harewood mss WYL250/8) have been used throughout. Some of these were published by Canning’s private sec. A. G. Stapleton in his Political Life of Canning (2nd edn. 1831) and Canning and his Times (1859), while his son E. J. Stapleton edited Some Official Corresp. of Canning (1887). R....
Aug 4, 2024 · Lord Liverpool, who succeeded to the prime ministry in 1812 on Perceval’s assassination, tried hard to induce Canning to take office, but Canning refused to allow his old rival Castlereagh (who generously offered to surrender the foreign secretaryship to him and to take the inferior office of chancellor of the Exchequer) to retain the ...
He returned to the Cabinet in 1816 as President of the Board of Control but resigned in 1820 because of his support for Queen Caroline (with whom he was rumoured to have had an affair many years earlier – George IV appears to have believed that rumour).
George Canning was a brilliant orator in the House of Commons and Liverpool wanted him back in the Cabinet. In June 1821, Liverpool tried to offer the Admiralty or the Home Office to Canning, but King George IV refused.
Shortly afterwards, Lord Liverpool resigned, and George IV asked Canning to be Prime Minister, which he accepted on 10 April 1827. Canning probably should have declined. Immediately, upon his appointment, dozens of more conservative Tory ministers resigned over Canning’s support for Catholic emancipation.
