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- Introduction
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- Camden Fourth Series , Volume 41: The Letter-Journal of George Canning, 1793–1795 , July 1991 , pp. 3 - 14
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- Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1991
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1 The outline of C.'s early life that follows is based on the following biographies: Stapleton, A.G., The Political Life of the Rt. Hon. George Canning. (3 vols., London, 1831)Google Scholar; Bell, R., The Life of the Rt. Hon. George Canning, (London, 1846)Google Scholar; Stapleton, A.G., George Canning and His Times, (London, 1859)Google Scholar; Temperley, H.W.V., George Canning, (London, 1905)Google Scholar; Bagot, J., George Canning and his Friends, (2 vols., London, 1909)Google Scholar; SirPetrie, C., George Canning. (London, 1930)Google Scholar; Marshall, D., The Rise of George Canning, (London, 1938)Google Scholar; Rolo, P.J.V., George Canning, (London, 1965)Google Scholar; Hinde, W., George Canning, (London, 1973)Google Scholar, Dixon, P., Canning, (London, 1976)Google Scholar and Thorne, R.G., The House of Commons 1790–1820, (5 vols., London, 1986), iii, 378–404Google Scholar. Amendments and additions to the facts presented there are indicated in the footnotes. For the expectations of his parliamentary debut see the leading article, ‘Theatre de la Nation’ in the Morning Chronicle, 20 01 1794Google Scholar
2 Letter-journal, 23
3 Canning MSS (2), Canning to his mother, 13 June 1791; Letter-Journal, 230–1
4 Canning MSS (12), Canning to the Rev. William Leigh, 28 May 1791; (141), maps of the Kilbraghan estate, 1785, 1796
5 It is clear from the correspondence to be found in the Canning MSS (Adnl), (6) and (7) between Mehitabel Canning and her daughter, Elizabeth, that the Cannings and the Patricks were long-standing friends of the Crewes and Mrs Crewe's brother, Charles Greville. See also on this point Canning MSS (Adnl) (5), Canning to Frances Canning, 8 Aug. 1790
6 For praise of the Leighs see Canning MSS (Adnl), (6), Mehitabel Canning to Elizabeth Canning, 7 June 1792
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11 Canning MSS (64), Lord Morpeth to Canning, n.d. but c.1793–94
12 P.R.O. Chatham MSS, 30/8/120, f. 122, Canning to T. Wallace, 15 Mar. 1793
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27 Letter-journal, 168, 184–91
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29 Letter-journal, 51, 250; Canning MSS (64), Lord Morpeth to Canning, 14 Jan. 1789
30 Letter-journal, 284
31 Letter-journal, 82–3, 94, 104
32 Letter-journal, 168–69
33 Letter-journal, 102–3
34 Letter-journal, 261
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