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Canning, George

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1770–1827, British statesman. Canning was converted to Toryism by the French Revolution, became a disciple of William Pitt, and was his undersecretary for foreign affairs (1796–99). To bring ridicule upon English radicals and Whigs who favored the Revolution, he contributed numerous articles to the Anti-Jacobin (1797–98). During the war against Napoleon I, he served as treasurer of the navy (1804–6) and was foreign minister (1807–9). He exerted great influence in military affairs, planning the seizure of the Danish fleet at Copenhagen (1807) and supporting British intervention in Spain and Portugal (see Peninsular War ). However, he quarreled with Lord Castlereagh , and after a duel, in which Canning was wounded, both resigned from the ministry. He later served (1816–20) as president of the board of control for India, resigning in protest against the government's prosecution of Queen Caroline. Recalled to the foreign office after Castlereagh's suicide (1822), he reversed previous…
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George Canning (1770-1827) was born in London, and raised and educated by his uncle after his father died when he was only one year old. He attended Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was admitted to the Bar before entering Parliament in 1794. He became Under-Secretary of State under William Pitt, …
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Full text Article Canning, George (1770–1827).

From The Oxford Companion to British History
Prime minister. The most brilliant of the disciples of the younger *Pitt , Canning was distrusted for much of his career as an intriguer. He also suffered from the fact that his father had died in penury and that his mother had been an actress. Rescued by a wealthy uncle, Canning was educated at…
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English statesman. He became Foreign Secretary in 1822 on the death of his political opponent Castlereagh, and began a programme of liberalization. On Liverpool’s resignation in 1827, he formed his own administration but died the same year. Pitt is to Addington As London is to Paddington. c.1803…
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Full text Article Canning, George (1770 to 1827)

From Chambers Dictionary of World History
British politician. He entered parliament for Newport, Isle of Wight (1794) as a supporter of Pitt, the Younger . He became Under-Secretary of State (1796), Treasurer of the Navy (1804–6), and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1807). His disapproval of the Walcheren expedition led to a misunderstanding…
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From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
British Tory statesman, Prime Minister 1827 In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. dispatch, in cipher, to the English ambassador at the Hague, 31 January…
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Full text Article HYPERBOLA

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
English writer and mathematician What mathematician has ever pondered over an hyperbola, mangling the unfortunate curve with lines of intersection here and there, in his efforts to prove some property that perhaps after all is a mere calumny, who has not fancied at last that the ill-used locus was…
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Full text Article ASYMPTOTE

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