Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning
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The Right Honourable The Earl Canning KG GCB KSI PC |
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Canning c. 1840s by Richard Beard
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| Governor-General of India | |
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In office 28 February 1856 – 21 March 1862 |
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| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Prime Minister |
The Viscount Palmerston The Earl of Derby |
| Preceded by | The Marquess of Dalhousie |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Elgin |
| Postmaster General | |
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In office 5 January 1853 – 30 January 1855 |
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| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Aberdeen |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Hardwicke |
| Succeeded by | The Duke of Argyll |
| First Commissioner of Woods and Forests | |
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In office 2 March 1846 – 30 June 1846 |
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| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Sir Robert Peel, Bt |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Lincoln |
| Succeeded by | Viscount Morpeth |
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| Born |
14 December 1812 Brompton, London |
| Died | 17 June 1862 (aged 49) Grosvenor Square, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
Conservative Peelite |
| Spouse(s) |
Hon. Charlotte Stuart (1817–1861) |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning KG GCB KSI PC (14 December 1812 – 17 June 1862), known as The Viscount Canning from 1837 to 1859, was an English statesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Born at Gloucester Lodge, Brompton, near London, Canning was the youngest child of George Canning and Joan, Viscountess Canning, daughter of Major-General John Scott. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1833, as first class in classics and second class in mathematics.
In 1836 he entered parliament, being returned as member for the town of Warwick in the Conservative interest. He did not, however, sit long in the House of Commons; for, on the death of his mother in 1837, he succeeded to the peerage and entered the House of Lords. His first official appointment was that of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the administration formed by Sir Robert Peel in 1841, his chief being the Earl of Aberdeen. This post he held till January 1846; and from January to July of that year, when the Peel administration was broken up, Lord Canning filled the post of First Commissioner of Woods and Forests.
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