George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh
Politician
1778 – 1840
Who was George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh?
George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh FRS was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament.
Garvagh was the son of Paul Canning and the grandson of Stratford Canning of Garvagh in County Londonderry. Prime Minister George Canning and the diplomat Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, were his first cousins. He was elected to the House of Commons for Sligo Borough in 1806, a seat he held until 1812, and then represented Petersfield from 1812 to 1820. On 1 February 1810 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and on 28 October 1818 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Garvagh, of Garvagh in the County of Londonderry. Lord Garvagh later served as Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry between 1831 and 1840. He died while staying at an hotel in Châlons-sur-Marne in August 1840, aged 61, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Charles Henry Spencer George Canning.
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