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Canning, Charles John

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Canning, Charles John (1812-1862)

British administrator, son of George Canning and first viceroy of India from 1858. As governor general of India from 1856, he suppressed the Indian Mutiny with a fair but firm hand which earned him the nickname ‘Clemency Canning’. Viscount (1837), Earl (1859).
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