What is George Canning?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = <small>[[The Right Honourable]]</small> | name=George Canning | smallimage=George Canning.jpg | order=[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] | term_start =10 April 1827 | term_end =8 August 1827 | monarch =[[George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV]] | predecessor =[[Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool|The Earl of Liverpool]] | successor =[[Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich|The Viscount Goderich]] | birth_date ={{birth date|df=yes|1770|4|11}} | birth_place =[[Marylebone]], [[London]] | death_date ={{death date and age|df=yes|1827|8|8|1770|4|11}} | death_place =[[Chiswick]], [[Middlesex]] | alma_mater =[[Christ Church, Oxford]] | spouse =[[Joan Canning, 1st Viscountess Canning]] | children = 4 | party=[[Tory]] | order2=[[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] | monarch2 =George IV | term_start2 =31 January 1823 | term_end2 =20 April 1827 | predecessor2 =[[Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich|Frederick John Robinson]] | successor2 =[[Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden|Charles Abbott]] |}} '''George Canning''' [[Privy Council of Great Britain|PC]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (11 April 1770 &ndash; 8 August 1827) was a British statesman and [[politician]] who was [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary]] and, briefly, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]. == Entry into politics == Stratford Canning was a Whig and would introduce his nephew in the 1780s to prominent [[British Whig Party|Whigs]] such as [[Charles James Fox]], [[Edmund Burke]], and [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]]. George Canning's friendship with Sheridan would last for the remainder of Sheridan's life. {{UKPrimeMinisters|Canning, George}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Canning, George}} [[Category:1770 births]] [[Category:1827 deaths]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:Chancellors of the Exchequer]] [[Category:People buried in Westminster Abbey]] [