1. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder (co-authored with J. H. Frere)

Notes on Life and Works

• Beales, Derek. “Canning, George (1770-1827).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: George
Family name: Canning
Birth date: 11 April 1770
Death date: 8 August 1827
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: George Canning
          mother: Mary Anne Canning
          wife: Joan Canning (from 8 July 1800)
          son: Charles John Canning
          son: William Pitt Canning
          daughter: Harriet John
          grandfather: Stratford Canning
Languages
          English
          Latin
Education
          Hyde Abbey, Rev. Mr. Richards
          Eton
          Christ Church, Oxford (B.A.): 1788 to 1790
          Lincoln's Inn: 1790
Politics
          Whig
          Tory
Honour: Chancellor's prize for Latin verse: 1789
Literary period: Romantic
Occupations
          Statesman: 1794
          Prime Minister: April 1827 to August 1827
Residence: London: 1770
Cause of death: liver disease
Buried at: Westminster Abbey
First RPO edition: 1996