CANNING. Charles John Canning was born at Gloucester Lodge, Brompton, in 1812. He was the third son of George Canning, a celebrated statesman, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. Ile entered upon public life in 1836, as member for Warwickshire. In the following year his mother died, and he went to the House of Lords. When Sir R. Peel came into power in 1841, he was appointed Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. For a month or two, in the re constructed ministry of Sir Robert Peel, Lord Canning was Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests • but in July 1846 he resigned with his party, but returned with the Coalition Ministry in 1853. In the government of Lord Aberdeen, Lord Canning was Postmaster-General, anddistinguished himself by his.administrative capacity. He made many changes in the internal organization of the department, and set on foot the practice of sub mitting annually to Parliament a report of the work, and especially the progress, achieved by the post office. He held the same appointment for a short time in Lord Palmerston's cabinet. Lord Canning began his rule in India on the last day of February 1856, and in 1857 the army of Bengal revolted, and much of Northern India re belled, under the guidance of Nana Rao of Bittur, and of the emperor of Dehli. The years 1857-1858 were employed in suppressing the mutiny, in which he displayed great boldness and self-reliance, and when the embers of the insurrection alone re mained, he was the first to urge clemency.
On the 3d March 1858 be issued a proclamation declaratory of the policy he intended to pursue with regard to the talukdars of Oudb, which be afterwards modified, on the remonstrance of Sir James Outram, then Chief Commissioner. Oudh had been the centre of the rebellion, and on its suppression the inhabitants were disarmed, and the forts of the petty chieftains dismantled. He was the first Viceroy of India, having been ap pointed Viceroy and Governor-General 1st Novem ber 1858, and 12th March 1862. During his ad ministration, the loyalty of the Sikhs and of the Nepal ruler, Sir Jung Bahadur, was conspicuous; equally so was the perfidy of Nana Rao and the emperor of Debli. Several servants of Govern ment, Sir Henry Lawrence, Sir John (Lord; Lawrence, Sir Robert Montgomery, Sir Colir Campbell, Sir Nevil Chamberlain, Sir Georg( Balfour, Sir Hugh Rose, Sir Robert (Lord; Napier, Sir hope Grant, Sir Henry Norman, Sit Bartle Frere, by their labours in war and in peac( did the state service, and won honours for them. selves. Earl Canning, on his return home, was appointed a Knight of the Garter by letters patent. dated Balmoral, May 21, but he died at Londor on the 17th June 1862.