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Arthur C.V.D. Aspinall
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LOCATION: Reading, United Kingdom

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Professor of Modern History, University of Reading, England, 1947–65. Author of The Cabinet Council, 1783–1835 and others.

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George Canning, painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence and Richard Evans; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Canning was a British statesman known for his liberal policies as foreign secretary (1807–09, 1822–27) and as prime minister for four months during 1827. Canning’s father, the eldest son of an Irish landowner, was disinherited for his marriage to a beautiful but penniless girl and died in…
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