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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 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 2 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.
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 4 días · La Avenida Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz cambió de nombre varias veces por las locuras de los políticos y militares Argentinos en la ciudad de Buenos Aires; Un decreto del 27 de noviembre de 1893, cambió su nombre a Canning, en tributo a George Canning, quien fue secretario de Relaciones Exteriores del Reino Unido.
Hace 4 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 1 día · Canning’s professional acting debut was at Edmonton’s Citadel Theater when she was 18, in George Orwell’s 1984. She, on the other hand, focused her efforts on academics and enrolled at the University of Alberta to study general arts.
