Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe KG GCB PC (born November 4, 1786 in London , † August 14, 1880 in Frant Court ( Kent )) was a British diplomat and long-time ambassador to the Sublime Porte .
life and work
Stratford Canning was born in London to a wealthy businessman and was a cousin of the politician George Canning . He was called to Constantinople as British legation secretary as early as 1809 . In 1814 he went to Basel and Zurich as an authorized minister , where he still took part in the drafting of the Swiss Federal Act until 1815 . In 1815 he stayed in Vienna during the Congress and then went on diplomatic missions to Washington, DC and Petersburg .
In February 1826 he became British envoy to Constantinople and worked to settle the differences between Turkey and Greece . However, since the Porte rejected his proposals, he left Constantinople in 1827, went to Greece as envoy extraordinary in 1828 and returned to England after taking part in the Paris conferences to determine the borders of this kingdom. From April 1828 to July 1830 he was a Member of the House of Commons for the Old Sarum district . In October 1831 reappointed envoy to Constantinople, he again took part in the negotiations on the regulation of the borders of Greece and saw his efforts crowned by the London Treaty of May 7, 1832.
In 1833 and 1834 he was envoy extraordinary to Madrid and Petersburg. From January 1835 to 1841 he was an MP in the House of Commons for the district of King's Lynn . In 1841 he went again to Constantinople as envoy, where he worked tirelessly for 16 years to curb Russian influence in Turkey and also to prevent any advance of French or Austrian influence. Already on 24 April 1852 he was entitled de Viscount Redcliffe , in the County of Somerset in the hereditary nobility were collected.
Returned to England in July 1858, he took his seat in the House of Lords ; In 1869 he received the Order of the Garter . Without taking part in active politics since then, he was always considered one of the first authorities on oriental questions and has repeatedly raised his voice in the entanglements since 1876, not always approving of the measures of the Beaconsfield Ministry .
He died on August 14, 1880 in his country estate at Frant Court near Tunbridge Wells in Kent . Since he left no descendants, his title of nobility expired with his death.
Fonts (selection)
- 1866: Shadows of the Past. In verse . Macmillan and Co., London [Poems] ( Google )
- 1873: Why am I a Christian? Henry S. King & Co., London ( Google )
- 1876: Alfred the Great in Athelnay. An Historical Play; with a preliminary scene . (without publisher information), London ( Google )
- 1876: The Greatest of Miracles . Hatchards, London ( Google )
- 1878: Recollections of the Revival of Greek Independence . In: The Nineteenth Century. A Monthly Review , Volume IV (July-Dec. 1878), pp. 377-392
- 1881: The Eastern Question . Being a Selection from his Writings during the Last Five Years of his Life. With a Preface by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley . Jon Murray, London ( Text Archive - Internet Archive )
literature
- Steven Richmond: The Voice of England in the East. Stratford Canning and Diplomacy within the Ottoman Empire . IB Tauris, London 2014.
- de Redcliffe Stratford de Redcliffe . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 15, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 379.
Web links
- Canning Genealogy (English)
- Sir Stratford Canning at Hansard (English)
- Rolf Stücheli: Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ P. 1181. In: The London Gazette , April 27, 1852, no. 21313.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Canning, Stratford, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Canning, Stratford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1786 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1880 |
| Place of death | Frant Court, Kent |