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278 STRANGFORD — STRATFORD. BatbvaS-Habboty, fditerwnrda by royal lie, 28 Jan. 1862, Batkmasj-Hakbuby- Kimaib-LhxncX, living ISt'O. Slje d. 28 June IS!'-', at Kingsmead, Windsor. VIII. 1S57. S. Percy (") Euan Ah;i:hnon Frederick William to Sydney (S.mytiik), Vjscou!«t StbasosdbD [I. 1628]. ouil Karon 1SG9. Vexsiiiust [1825], also a Grandee of Portugal, yst. and oujy surv. bv. and h. ; 6. 26 Nov. 1825, at St. Petersburg ; mat. at Oxford (Morton Coll.) 17 June 1843, being a Postmaster of his college, 1813-15 : Attache to the Embassy :it Constantinople, 1849; Oriental Secretary. 1847-58. Hetsuc.totke forage [I. ami V.KA 23 Nov, 1857. Hi' 8 Feb. 1862, at All Saints, Norfolk square, Paddington. Kmily Anne, yst. da. of Admiral Sir Pram-is BraI POBTt* 1 ) K.C.B., by his first wife" Alicia Magdalena, da. of Lcstock Wii.min, Cant, in tliu Past India service. He d. B p. (after a few hours illness) 9 Jan. lS'i! 1 , at 58 Cumber- land street, M.irylcbone, aged 43, a lien all /lis Iwnuurs became extinct. U is widow d. ou board ship cn route to Purt Said), 24 March, and was 6iir. 18 April 1SS7, at Kensol Green, MidX. STRANRAER. i.e., "Glexluce and Stranraer," Barony [S.] (Dalrympk), cr. 1G90 with tho Viscountcy ok StaIB [8,1 which see. i.e , "Newliston, Glexluce, and Stranraer," Barony [S. |, (Dairy- mjilc) cr. 1703, with the Eakldum ok Staih [S.J, which see. STRAT FIELD-SAY. See "Rivers of Stratfield-Say, eo. Southampton," Barony (Hit), cr. 1770 ; ex. 1S28. STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE. Viscountcy i. The Rt. Hon. Sir Stratford Canning, G.C.B., r l t(r Ambassador to Constantinople, was cr. 24 April 1S52, VISCOUNT , ' STKATFOUD DP REDCLIFFE.C) eo. Somerset. He was 4 th ami lgsQ y st - 8 -°f Stratford Canning,( u ) (d. May 1787). a merchant of Loudon, was by Mehetabel, da. of Kobert PaTBICK, of Somerville, Co. Dublin 6. 4 Nov. 17S6, in Clements lane, London ; ed. at Hackney school Eton, and at King's Coll., Cambridge (Scholar, 1805), becoming M.A., 1813. He 1 precis writer at the Foreign Office, ISOfi ; Sec. of the Embassy at Constantinople, 1S09; Minister Plenipn. there, 1810-12, being mainly instrumental iu carrying the the treaty. 28 May 1812, of Bucharest.^) Minister to Switzerland, 1814-17 j P.C, 20 July 1S20 ; Minister to Washington, 182C-23, in which year he was joint Couimiff. to treat with the American minister iu London ; Ambassador (spec, mission) to St. (•■>) See p. 277 , note "a."' (") See a good account of the Beaufort family iu Cass's " East Barnet," eo. Midx. PJ The title seems a strange medley, tho' that of " Cunning de Kedolilfe " would have beeu intelligible. The christian name of Stratford borne by himself, lis father, and his grandfather, was given to the latter, as being the b. of George Cauuiug, by Abigail, ouo of the numerous childreu of Robert Stratford, grandfather to John (Stratford), 1st Earl of AJdborough [L] The adjuuet of "de ttedciffle" was iu commemoration of the family of Canning having resided during the l ltb. and 15th centuries, at St. Mary's JlcdcliJ'c, Bristol. ('») Of the two brothers of this Stratford Cauuiug (1), George Canning was father of the well known statesman, George Canning (d. 18 Aug. 1 827, aged 57), whose issue male b came extinct on the death of his son, Earl Canning, 17 June 1862; (2) Paul Cauuiug, of Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, was father of George, 1st Paron Gorvagh [I.J so cr. 1818 aucestor of the succeeding Barous. re) " This was the most importaut act of Stratford Cauuiug's life. Apart from the reputation thus acquired by the young diplomatist, tho gain to Europe was immense. [Nut. Bioyr.