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Hace 3 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 5 días · Estos nombres no fueron elegidos al azar sino que tanto Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, George Canning como Guillermo Enrique Hudson tuvieron mucho que ver con la relación argentino-británica. La fundación de los distintos clubes colaboraron con el crecimiento de una ciudad sin fecha fundacional.
Hace 4 días · It was a commonplace that Peel was excessively ambitious; but as George Canning, John Prescott and almost every female minister since 1945 could testify, such claims are the common currency of politics when individuals attain positions thought to be above their station.
Hace 3 días · This was hardly the full extent of Canning's extra-parliamentary speech-making. During the 1812 general election, for instance, he is reported to have made 160 speeches in Liverpool. (7) Even so, by including a sampling of Canning's public orations, the editor acknowledged the fact that significant statements and the eloquence of leading statesmen were not confined to the Houses of Parliament.
Hace 3 días · Curzon was President of the Union and Secretary of the Oxford Canning Club (a Tory political club named for George Canning), but as a consequence of the extent of his time-expenditure on political and social societies, he failed to achieve a first class degree in Greats, although he subsequently won both the Lothian Prize Essay and ...
Hace 5 días · Indeed, so small and insignificant did the village continue down to our own times, that George Canning instituted a witty comparison between a great and a small premier, when he uttered the mot:— "As London to Paddington So is Pitt to Addington." The old stone indicating the first mile from Tyburn turnpike towards Harrow still remains in the ...
Hace 5 días · Description Title [George Canning] [graphic]. Alternative Title Right Honble. G. Canning, M.P.
