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His health collapsed, and he died of pneumonia at Chiswick House on 8 August 1827, whilst still in office. His tenure of 119 days in office made him the shortest-serving prime minister in history, a title he held for 195 years until Liz Truss' premiership in 2022, which lasted 49 days.
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Top left: Robert Walpole is considered the first de facto prime minister of Great Britain. Top right: Winston Churchill was prime minister during World War II. Bottom left: Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom. Bottom right: Rishi Sunak is the incumbent, and first British Asian prime minister.
PortraitPortraitPrime Minister Office (lifespan)Term Of Office(start)Rishi Sunak [80] MP for Richmond (Yorks) ...25 October 2022Incumbent1 year, 183 daysLiz Truss [79] MP for South West Norfolk ...6 September 202225 October 202250 daysBoris Johnson [78] MP for Uxbridge and ...24 July 20196 September 20223 years, 45 daysTheresa May [77] MP for Maidenhead (born ...13 July 201624 July 20193 years, 12 days7 de abr. de 2024 · But his ministry lasted only four months; his health broke down under the strain, and he died in August 1827 at Chiswick, in the house of the duke of Devonshire. Legacy The hatred and malignity with which Canning was assailed by the Tory aristocracy in 1827 showed what prejudice still existed against a prime minister born outside the ...
29 de dic. de 2017 · On 8 August 1827, after spending barely 5 months in office, Canning died suddenly from pneumonia at Chiswick House. His last words were ‘Spain and Portugal’.
George Canning – died on 8 August 1827, aged 57 Lord Palmerston – died on 18 October 1865, aged 80 (two days before his 81st birthday); the oldest to die in office Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Bonar Law each resigned during their respective final illnesses.
1827 – 1828: Tory George Canning: 1827 – 1827: Tory Earl of Liverpool: 1812 – 1827: Tory Spencer Perceval: 1809 – 1812: Tory Duke of Portland: 1807 – 1809: Whig William Grenville: 1806 – 1807: Whig William Pitt the Younger: 1804 – 1806: Tory Henry Addington: 1801 – 1804: Tory William Pitt the Younger: 1783 – 1801 ...
M.G. Brock profiles one of Britain's most able yet ill-fated premiers. Canning became Prime Minister in April 1827 and died in the following August. It took him the greater part of these four months to form his government, and the task had not been completed at his death.
