Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos: George Canning

1770-1827. Politician and, briefly, British Prime Minister.

Educated at Eton College and Christ Church College, Oxford, at the expense of his banker uncle, Canning's own father having died when he was a baby
1794: MP and supporter of William Pitt the Younger
1807: Appointed Foreign Secretary in the Duke of Portland's government during the Napoleonic Wars
1809: Duel with the Colonial Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, both were forced to resign from the Cabinet
1812: When offered his old position of Foreign Secretary, he demanded to also be Leader of the Commons, which was refused him
1816: Returned to the Cabinet as President of the Board of Control
1820: Resigned from government in support of Queen Caroline, with whom he had probably had a short affair some years before
1822: Returned as Foreign Secretary following Castlereagh's suicide
1827: Succeeded Lord Liverpool as prime minister
1827: September, died. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Canning was a considerable public speaker, an abolitionist and a supporter of Catholic emancipation.

George Canning	First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord Lyndhurst	Lord Chancellor
Lord Harrowby	Lord President of the Council
The Duke of Portland	Lord Privy Seal; Minister without Portfolio from July 1827
William Stourges Bourne	Secretary of State for the Home Department (Home Secretary) until July 1827; then First Commissioner of Woods and Forests
Lord Dudley	Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Lord Goderich	Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
William Huskisson	President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy
Charles Watkin Wynn	President of the Board of Control
Lord Bexley	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Palmerston	Secretary at War; Home Secretary from July 1827
Lord Lansdowne	Minister without Portfolio
Lord Carlisle	First Commissioner of Woods and Forests from May 1827; Lord Privy Seal from July 1827
George Tierney	Master of the Mint from July 1827