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Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning

1812 - 1862

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Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, (14 December 1812 – 17 June 1862), also known as the Viscount Canning and Clemency Canning, was a British statesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the first Viceroy of India after the transfer of power from the East India Company to the Crown of Queen Victoria in 1858 after the rebellion was crushed. Canning is credited for ensuring that the administration and most departments of the government functioned normally during the rebellion and took major administrative decisions even during the peak of the Rebellion in 1857, including establishing the first three modern Universities in India, the University of Calcutta, University of Madras and University of Bombay based on Wood's despatch. Canning passed the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856 which was drafted by his predecessor Lord Dalhousie before the rebellion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning has received more than 699,095 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning is the 13,863rd most popular politician (down from 13,247th in 2019), the 3,623rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,909th in 2019) and the 478th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning ranks 13,863 out of 15,577. Before him are Ceolred of Mercia, Vistahm, Alexandros Diomidis, Chuck Grassley, Hans-Peter Tschudi, and Mario Echandi Jiménez. After him are Dharanindravarman II, Bahriye Üçok, Jozef Moravčík, Fruto Chamorro, Emma Asson, and José Rondeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning ranks 62. Before him are Johanne Luise Heiberg, Charles Duclerc, Buenaventura Báez, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, Samo Chalupka, and William Shanks. After him are Nicolae Crețulescu, Aleardo Aleardi, Pierre de Decker, Auguste Duméril, George Grey, and Lady Charlotte Guest. Among people deceased in 1862, Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning ranks 47. Before him are Robert Knox, Carlos Anaya, František Škroup, Frederick Townsend Ward, François Sudre, and Felix de Muelenaere. After him are Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, Lev Mei, Blanka Teleki, Pedro Gual Escandón, and Manuel Robles Pezuela.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning ranks 3,623 out of 7,765. Before him are Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), Callum Keith Rennie (1960), Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), John Gerard (1545), and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743). After him are Joe Cole (1981), John O. Westwood (1805), James Thomson (1700), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), Nigella Lawson (1960), and Bernard Sumner (1956).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning ranks 478. Before him are Roy Jenkins (1920), Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), Alan Bullock (1914), John Julius Norwich (1929), Malcolm MacDonald (1901), and Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845). After him are Nicola Sturgeon (1970), John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1680), Michael Heseltine (1933), Stafford Cripps (1889), Pybba of Mercia (570), and Cadwallon ap Cadfan (591).

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