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e. George Canning FRS (11 April 1770 – 8 August 1827) was a British Tory statesman. He held various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, including two important terms as Foreign Secretary, finally becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the last 119 days of his life, from April to August 1827.
7 de abr. de 2024 · In the hope of improving his financial position and believing that advancement at home was blocked by the king’s hostility to him, he accepted the governor-generalship of Bengal in March 1822, with the additional prospect of a peerage on his return, but, before his ship was ready to sail, Castlereagh committed suicide (August 12 ...
15 de abr. de 2013 · The scandal of the civilised world George Canning, who replaced Castlereagh as secretary of state, was soon grappling with the deficiencies in the slave trade treaties.
from Portugal to Brazil. It was the view of George Canning, who succeeded Castlereagh as Foreign Secretary in the same month, that the Portuguese government's only excuse for not fulfilling its engage-ments of 18o1, I815 and 1817, the need to supply the colony of Brazil with labour, was now 'ipso facto abrogated and anulled'.
Canning was a supporter of the abolition of slavery and, throughout his time at the Foreign Office, fought to uphold Britain's best interests. When he became PM on 12 April 1827, seven members of the Cabinet resigned: Wellington , Westmorland, Peel , Bexley , Melville , Eldon and Bathurst .
Biography. Inauspicious beginnings did not prevent Canning, a ‘landless orphan’, from becoming the most talented member of the House of Commons of his generation; but his candid avowal of an ambition for power that matched his abilities and was not satisfied with mastery in debate proved a faux pas.
29 de dez. de 2017 · George Canning was an enthusiastic follower of Pitt the Younger, resigning from his post as Paymaster General in 1801 when Pitt resigned as Prime Minister. Popular, witty and intelligent, he ...
