PC 20 July 1820.
Précis writer, foreign office 1807; 2nd sec. mission to Denmark Oct. – Nov. 1807; sec. mission to Turkey 1808 – 09, sec. of embassy, 1808 – 12, minister plenip. ad int. 1810 – 12; envoy extraordinary and minister plenip. to Switzerland 1814 – 19, to U.S.A. 1820 – 23; spec. mission to Russia 1824 – 25; ambassador extraordinary and plenip. to Turkey 1826 – 27, 1841 – 58; jt. plenip. to Greece Aug. – Dec. 1828; spec. mission to Constantinople 1831 – 32; extraordinary mission to Spain 1832 – 33; to Switzerland 1847 – 48; spec. missions to Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, Greece, Hanover, Prussia and Saxony 1848.
This account draws liberally on S. Lane-Poole, Life of Stratford Canning, 2 vols. (1888). The originals of Canning’s memoirs, which are extensively printed therein, were subsequently lost, along with much of his personal correspondence. E.F. Malcolm-Smith, Life of Stratford Canning (1933) is largely a redaction of the above work. A. Cunningham, Anglo-Ottoman Encounters in Age of Revolution (1993) and Eastern Questions in 19th Cent. (1993) contain essays on aspects of Canning’s career.
CANNING, Stratford (1786-1880)