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Há 4 dias · George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.
Há 5 dias · George Canning was born in 1770. On leaving Oxford he at first, under the influence of his uncle, Stratford Canning, joined the Whigs, but the progress of the French Revolution changed his ideas, and in 1793 he definitely attached himself to Pitt. In the following year he entered Parliament as member for Newtown.
Há 2 dias · Indeed, so small and insignificant did the village continue down to our own times, that George Canning instituted a witty comparison between a great and a small premier, when he uttered the mot:— "As London to Paddington So is Pitt to Addington." The old stone indicating the first mile from Tyburn turnpike towards Harrow still remains in the ...
Há 4 dias · Compared to his dazzling successor at the Foreign Office, George Canning, Castlereagh seemed a bit of a bore. One of the two indisputably fascinating things Castlereagh ever did was to shoot Canning in the thigh in a duel brought about as much by the former’s oversized sense of honor as it was by the latter’s oversized sense of entitlement in scheming to oust his rival from the cabinet.
Há 5 dias · That concern with the judgement of posterity – and Peel’s anxiety to shape its deliberations – forms the keynote of Richard Gaunt’s new study: Sir Robert Peel: the Life and Legacy. As Gaunt makes clear at the outset, his book is not ‘a new cradle-to-grave biography’. Instead, it ‘offers a reinterpretation of Peel’s attitudes to ...
Há 3 dias · Close by this fountain, and facing the Houses of Parliament, is a fine bronze statue of George Canning, standing upon a granite pedestal. It was executed by Sir Richard Westmacott, and erected in 1832.
Há 1 dia · 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). George Canning himself died less than four months later and, after the brief premiership of Lord Goderich , Peel returned to the post of home secretary under the premiership of his long-time ally the Duke of ...
