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About Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
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Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe Canning was an English diplomatist. He was born in 1788 and died in 1880. The son of a London merchant and cousin of George Canning, he entered the diplomatic service in 1807, and in 1820 became plenipotentiary at Washington. In 1824 he went as ambassador extraordinary to St Petersburg, and afterwards to Constantinople (Istanbul) about the Greek difficulty; but negotiations were broken off by the battle of Navarino. He was sent again to Constantinople in 1831, and to Spain in 1832, and from 1834 to 1841 sat in parliament for King's Lynn. In 1842 he became ambassador at Constantinople, a post held by him for sixteen years under varying ministries with high honour. In 1852 he was raised to the peerage, and in 1869 created knight of the Garter.
He retired from diplomatic work in 1858, but exercised no small influence in the House of Lords, and as late as 1880 drew up a paper on the Greek claims. He died in the August of that year, having done more than any one man to establish British prestige in the East.
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Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe's Timeline
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November 4, 1786
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Frant, Sussex, England (United Kingdom)
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January 6, 1787
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1828
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1835
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August 1880
Age 93
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