Stratford, Stratford Canning, Viscount

Stratford, Stratford Canning, Viscount

▪ British diplomat

born Nov. 4, 1786, London, Eng.
died Aug. 14, 1880, Frant, Sussex
 diplomat who represented Great Britain at the Ottoman (Ottoman Empire) court for almost 20 years intermittently between 1810 and 1858, exerting a strong influence on Turkish policy.

      Stratford Canning was a cousin of George Canning, British foreign secretary (1807–09, 1822–27) and prime minister (1827), and, through the latter's aid, was educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge. George Canning first enlisted him in the foreign service in 1807. As chargé d'affaires and de facto ambassador at Constantinople (1810–12), Stratford Canning helped to arrange the Treaty of Bucharest (May 28, 1812) between Turkey and Russia, thereby freeing Russian troops to resist a French invasion force led by Napoleon I. As minister to Switzerland (1814–18), he introduced a plan for a perpetually neutral Swiss confederation, which was approved (March 20, 1815) by the Congress of Vienna. He then served (1820–23) as minister to the United States.

      During his service as ambassador in Constantinople in 1825–29 and in 1831, Canning was involved with the movement for Greek independence from Turkey. On his next embassies to Constantinople (1841–46, 1848–51), he became a close friend of the sultan Abdülmecid I and statesman Mustafa Reşid. Canning encouraged the Tanzimat, a program of limited Westernizing reforms for Turkey, and after 1848 he secured Turkish protection for Lajos Kossuth and other nationalist refugees from Hungary and Poland.

      Created viscount in 1852, Canning was sent to Constantinople once more in 1853. He supported the sultan's resistance to Russia's attempts to increase its influence over Ottoman affairs but simultaneously tried, without success, to prevent the outbreak of the Crimean War, in which Britain sided with Turkey. After leaving Turkey in 1858, Canning lived in semiretirement. The peerage became extinct upon his death, his only son having predeceased him.

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