Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe

Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe KG GCB PC ( * November 4, 1786 in London, † August 14 1880 in Frant Court (Kent) ) was a British diplomat and a long time ambassador to the Sublime Porte.

Stratford Canning was born the son of a wealthy merchant in London, was a cousin of the politician George Canning and had already been appointed in 1809 as a British secretary of legation to Constantinople Opel. In 1814 he went as Minister Plenipotentiary to Basel and Zurich, where he was taking part in the drafting of the Swiss Federal Act until 1815. In 1815 he was during the Congress in Vienna and then went to diplomatic missions to Washington, DC and St. Petersburg.

In February 1826, he was ambassador to Constantinople and worked for Opel reconcile the differences between Turkey and Greece. Since, however, the Porte rejected his proposals, he left in 1827 Konstantin Opel, went in 1828 as envoy extraordinary to Greece and then returned, after he participated in the Paris Conference to establish the boundaries of this kingdom, to England. Again appointed in October 1831 envoy in Constantinople Opel, he once again took part in the negotiations on the regulation of the borders of Greece and saw his efforts by the Treaty of London of May 7, 1832 crowned.

1833 and 1834 he was envoy extraordinary in Madrid and St. Petersburg. In 1841 he went as ambassador to Constantinople and Opel was here now for 16 years worked tirelessly to combat Russian influence in Turkey and also to prevent any penetration of a French or Austrian influence. In 1852, he had been raised with the title Viscount de Redcliffe to the peer.

In July 1858 returned to England, he took his seat in the House of Lords; In 1869 he was awarded the Order of the Garter. Without ever since to participate in active politics, he was always considered one of the foremost authorities in the field of Oriental and questions arose, especially in the tangles since 1876, repeated his voice, not consistently the measures of the Ministry Beaconsfield approvingly.

He died on August 14, 1880 at his country estate Frant Court at Tunbridge Wells in Kent.

Publications (selection)

  • Shadows of the past, London 1865 poems
  • Why am I a Christian? , 1873, theological work
  • Alfred the Great in Athelnay, 1876
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