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450 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Strangways, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Ilchester. (Fox-Strangways), family name of the Earl of Ilchester. Stranraer, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Stair. Stratford, family name of the Earl of Aldborough. STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, VISCOUNT. (CANNING.) STRATFORD CANNING, K.G. G.C.B. P.C. 1st Viscount, son of Stratford Canning, Esq. a merchant of London, by Mahetabel, daughter of Robert Patrick, Esq., of Summerhill, (co.) Dublin. Born Jan. 6th, 1788; educated at Eton, and at King's College, Cambridge, (M.A. 1813, and a Fellow) ; was Precis Writer in the Foreign Office, 18079 ; Secretary to the Embassy at Constantinople, 1809 10, and Minister Plenipotentiary, 181012; attended the Do not succumb to misfortune, but Congress at Vienna, 1814 and 1815; ap- oppose it. pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Berne, 1814, and to Washington, 1820, and Plenipotentiary in London for negotiating with the United States all questions in dispute, 1823 ; went on a special mission to Russia, 1824; was Ambassador at Constantinople, 18257 9, and employed on special missions there 1831, Ambassador to Madrid, 1832, Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg, 1832, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Constantinople, 1841 58. Sat as M.P. for Old Sarum, 182831, Stockbridge, 1831, and King's Lynn, 1835 42; was offered a Russian Order in 1814, and the Greek Order of the Saviour in 1842, but declined both. Accepted, by permission, from the Sultan Mahmoud his Nishan, the Imperial Portrait in brilliants. Married (1816) Harriet, youngest daughter of Thomas Raikes, Esq. Governor of the Bank of England (this lady died, 1817); 2ndly (1825), Eliza Charlotte, eldest daughter of James Alexander, Esq. of Summerhill, Tunbridge, by whom he has issue, livings Son, George, b. 1832. Daughters, Louisa, b. 1828. Katherine, b. 1835. Mary, b. 1837. Creation, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, in the county of Somerset, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1852. 9rm3, Quarterly: 1st and 4th, argent, three Moors' heads, couped, in profile, proper, wreathed round the temples, argent and azure ; 2nd, gules, three spears' heads, palewise, in fesse, argent; 3rd, sable, a goat salient, or. CTrest, A demi-lion rampant, argent, charged with three trefoils, vert, holding in the dexter paw an arrow, point downward. Supporters . Two lions, argent, collared, or ; on the shoulder of each a shield, charged with three trefoils. Town Residence, 2QA, Grosvenor-square, W. Club, Travellers'.