Charles John Canning was the 2nd Viscount Canning and 1st Earl Canning. Lord Canning was last Governor-General and first Viceroy of India.
"EARL CANNING, K.G. G.C.B. and K.S., late Viceroy and Governor-General of India, died, at his residence in Grosvenor square, on Tuesday, in his fiftieth year." [unidentified newspaper cutting, from family scrapbook]
"The statue of Lord Canning, for Calcutta, has just been successfully cast at the foundry of Messrs. Masefield & Co., Chelsea. . . {unidentified newspaper cutting from 1877, from family scrapbook]
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Categories: Members of Parliament, United Kingdom 1835 | Members of Parliament, Warwick | Privy Counsellors of the United Kingdom | Governors-General of India | Viceroys of India