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Há 3 dias · Just about everybody who didn’t know him and many who did thought him a cold fish – arrogant, aloof, disdainfully aristocratic. Compared to his dazzling successor at the Foreign Office, George Canning, Castlereagh seemed a bit of a bore.
Há 3 dias · This was hardly the full extent of Canning's extra-parliamentary speech-making. During the 1812 general election, for instance, he is reported to have made 160 speeches in Liverpool. (7) Even so, by including a sampling of Canning's public orations, the editor acknowledged the fact that significant statements and the eloquence of leading statesmen were not confined to the Houses of Parliament.
17 de mai. de 2024 · John Hookham Frere (born May 21, 1769, London, Eng.—died Jan. 7, 1846, Valletta, Malta) was a British diplomat and man of letters. Frere was educated at Eton, where he met the future statesman George Canning (with whom he collaborated on The Anti-Jacobin ), and at the University of Cambridge.
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Há 3 dias · George Canning (1807–9), and Viscount Casterleagh (1812–15) were highly successful in organizing complex coalitions that in the end defeated Napoleon. Castlereagh to Canning displayed imagination and energy, although their personalities clashed to the point of fighting a duel.
Há 3 dias · In 1827 the prime minister Lord Liverpool became incapacitated and was replaced by George Canning. Peel resigned as home secretary. Canning favoured Catholic emancipation, while Peel had been one of its most outspoken opponents (earning the nickname "Orange Peel", with Orange the colour of the Protestant Orange Order).
11 de mai. de 2024 · Despite its macabre reputation, 50 Berkeley Square also has a rich historical significance. It was once the residence of George Canning, a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (the house sports its very own blue plaque to state this fact), and has been a Grade II listed building since the mid-20th century.
28 de mai. de 2024 · South Hill Park, the property of Lord Haversham, was owned at the commencement of the 19th century by George Canning, the celebrated statesman, (fn. 3) and later by the Earls of Limerick and Sir James Matheson, (fn. 4) who in 1853 sold the estate to the late Sir William Hayter, whose son Sir Arthur Divett Hayter, created Lord Haversham in 1906, ...
