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Canning (CHARLES JOHN EARL an English)

CHARLES JOHN, EARL, an English statesman, son of George and in 1846 Commissioner of Woods and pointed Under-Secretary of State for at Eton and Oxford. In 1841 he was ap- Foreign Affairs in Peel's government, and in 1846 Commissioner of Woods and Forests. In the Aberdeen ministry of 1853, and under Palmerston in 1855, he held the postmaster-generalship, and in 1856 went out to India as Governor-General. Throughout the mutiny he showed a fine coolness and clear-headedness, and though his carefully pondered decisions India. He was raised to the rank of Earl yet his admirable moderation did much to re-establish the British Empire in India. He was raised to the rank of Earl and made Viceroy, but returned to England with shattered health, and died in London, June 17, 1862.