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Lord Canning

The Right Honourable
The Earl Canning
KG GCB KSI PC
Charles John Canning by Richard Beard, 1840s.jpg
Canning c. 1840s by Richard Beard
Governor-General of India
In office
28 February 1856 – 21 March 1862
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
In office
5 January 1853 – 30 January 1855
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
In office
2 March 1846 – 30 June 1846
Monarch Queen Victoria
Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, Bt
Preceded by The Earl of Lincoln
Succeeded by Viscount Morpeth
Personal details
Born 14 December 1812 (1812-12-14)
Brompton, London
Died 17 June 1862(1862-06-17) (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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