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Hace 4 días · Just about everybody who didn’t know him and many who did thought him a cold fish – arrogant, aloof, disdainfully aristocratic. Compared to his dazzling successor at the Foreign Office, George Canning, Castlereagh seemed a bit of a bore.
Hace 4 días · In September, 1809, was fought the memorable duel—happily, not a fatal one—between George Canning and his colleague, Lord Castlereagh. This "affair of honour" took place near the obelisk, and close by a semaphore telegraph which was erected by the Admiralty in 1796.
Hace 4 días · Charles James Fox died at Chiswick House while foreign secretary in 1806 and George Canning while prime minister in 1827. Tsar Alexander I and the king of Prussia were welcomed there in 1814, Queen Victoria in 1842, and Tsar Nicholas I and the king of Saxony in 1844.
Hace 4 días · Prime ministers who studied at Oxford include William Pitt the Elder, George Canning, Sir Robert Peel, William Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, H.H. Asquith, Clement Atlee, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, and Margaret Thatcher.
Hace 3 días · South Hill Park, the property of Lord Haversham, was owned at the commencement of the 19th century by George Canning, the celebrated statesman, and later by the Earls of Limerick and Sir James Matheson, who in 1853 sold the estate to the late Sir William Hayter, whose son Sir Arthur Divett Hayter, created Lord Haversham in 1906, is ...
Hace 22 horas · 8 January: The first soup kitchens are opened in London. [1] 13 January: The Royal Institution is granted a royal charter. [2] 22 March: The Company of Surgeons is granted a royal charter to become the Royal College of Surgeons in London. [2] 15 May: George III survives 2 assassination attempts in London.
Hace 3 días · 10 Quotes by George Canning with Explanations. 1. “Insurrection has been prepared, but not developed. Rebellion has been hatched, but not brooded to maturity.” (1823) Explanation: This quote refers to a potential uprising in Spain against King Ferdinand VII.
