{{Short description|Government of the United Kingdom}} {{EngvarB|date=July 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Infobox government cabinet | incumbent = 1827–1828 | image = {{multiple image | direction = horizontal | total_width = 350px | image1 = George Canning by Richard Evans.jpg | image2 = Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon by Sir Thomas Lawrence.jpg | align = center | border = infobox }} | caption = [[George Canning]] ''(left)'' led the [[Government of the United Kingdom|Government]] from April 1827. He was succeeded by [[Lord Goderich]] ''(right)'' upon Canning's death in August. | date_formed = {{Start date|1827|04|09|df=y}} | date_dissolved = {{End date|1828|01|22|df=y}} | government_head_title = Prime Minister | government_head = [[George Canning]] (until 8 August 1827)<br/> [[F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich]] | other_government_minister_title = | other_government_minister = | state_head_title = Monarch | state_head = [[George IV]] | political_party = {{Color box|{{party color|Tories (British political party)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Tories (British political party)|Tories]] | legislature_status = [[Majority government]] | legislature_term = [[List of MPs elected in the 1826 United Kingdom general election|1826–1830]]{{force singular}} | opposition_party = {{Color box|{{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Whigs (British political party)|Whigs]] | opposition_leader = [[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne|Marquess of Lansdowne]] | previous = [[Liverpool ministry]] | successor = [[Wellington–Peel ministry]] | flag = Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg | jurisdiction = United Kingdom | cabinet_type = Cabinets }} The [[Canningite]]s, led by [[George Canning]] and then the [[Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon|Viscount Goderich]] as [[First Lord of the Treasury]], governed the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] from 1827 until 1828.
==Formation== On 9 April 1827 the [[Tory Party|Tory]] [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], [[Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool]], suffered a [[cerebral haemorrhage]]. He had been prime minister nearly fifteen years, ever since the [[Assassination of Spencer Perceval|assassination]] of his predecessor [[Spencer Perceval]] in May 1812. The man chosen to succeed him was the [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (UK)|Foreign Secretary]] and [[Leader of the House of Commons]], [[George Canning]]. Canning was very much on the moderate wing of the Tory Party, and many of the more hard-line members of Liverpool's government, including the [[Secretary of State for the Home Department|Home Secretary]], Sir [[Robert Peel]], and national hero [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]] ([[Master-General of the Ordnance]]), refused to serve under him. Canning's government was therefore recruited from the moderate wing of the Tory Party, known as the [[Canningite]]s, with the support of several members of the [[British Whig Party|Whig Party]].
==Fate== Canning, who was in poor health at the time of his appointment, died in office on 8 August 1827, and the [[Leader of the House of Lords]] [[Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon|Frederick Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich]] succeeded him as prime minister. However, Goderich's government never even met in a session of Parliament, and was replaced by [[Tory Government 1828–1830|a High Tory government]] under the Duke of Wellington on 22 January 1828.
==Cabinets==
===George Canning's Cabinet, April 1827 – August 1827=== *George Canning – [[First Lord of the Treasury]], [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] and [[Leader of the House of Commons]] *[[John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst]] – [[Lord Chancellor]] *[[Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby]] – [[Lord President of the Council]] *[[William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland]] – [[Lord Privy Seal]] *[[William Sturges Bourne]] – [[Secretary of State for the Home Department]] *[[John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley]] – [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (UK)|Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] *[[Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich]] – [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]] and [[Leader of the House of Lords]] *[[William Huskisson]] – [[President of the Board of Trade]] and [[Treasurer of the Navy]] *[[Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850)|Charles Williams-Wynn]] – [[President of the Board of Control]] *[[Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley]] – [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] *[[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]] – [[Secretary at War]] *[[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne]] – [[Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom)|Minister without Portfolio]]
====Changes==== *May 1827 – [[George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle]], the [[First Commissioner of Woods and Forests]], enters the Cabinet *July 1827 – The Duke of Portland becomes a minister without portfolio. Lord Carlisle succeeds him as Lord Privy Seal. W. S. Bourne succeeds Carlisle as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Lord Lansdowne succeeds Bourne as Home Secretary. [[George Tierney]], the [[Master of the Mint]], enters the cabinet
===The Viscount Goderich's Cabinet, September 1827 – January 1828=== *Lord Goderich – [[First Lord of the Treasury]] and [[Leader of the House of Lords]] *[[John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst]] – [[Lord Chancellor]] *[[William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland]] – [[Lord President of the Council]] *[[George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle]] – [[Lord Privy Seal]] *[[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne]] – [[Secretary of State for the Home Department]] *[[John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley]] – [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (UK)|Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] *William Huskisson – [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]] and [[Leader of the House of Commons]] *[[J. C. Herries]] – [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] *[[Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey]] – [[Master-General of the Ordnance]] *[[Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg|Charles Grant]] – [[President of the Board of Trade]] and [[Treasurer of the Navy]] *[[Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850)|Charles Williams-Wynn]] – [[President of the Board of Control]] *William Sturges Bourne – [[First Commissioner of Woods and Forests]] *[[Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley]] – [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] *[[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]] – [[Secretary at War]]
==Full list of ministers== This is a list of the members of the government. Members of the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|Cabinet]] are indicated by '''bold''' typeface.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! Office ! Name ! Date |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[First Lord of the Treasury]] | '''[[George Canning]]''' | 10 April 1827{{Spaced en dash}}{{indent|1}}8 August 1827 |- | '''[[Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich]]''' | 31 August 1827{{Spaced en dash}}{{indent|1}}21 January 1828 |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] | '''[[George Canning]]''' | 20 April 1827 |- | '''[[John Charles Herries]]''' | 3 September 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury]] | [[Joseph Planta (politician)|Joseph Planta]] | 19 April 1827 |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]] | [[John Charles Herries]] | Continued in office |- | [[Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, 1st Baronet|Thomas Frankland Lewis]] | 4 September 1827 |- ! scope=row rowspan=5 | [[Lord of the Treasury|Junior Lords of the Treasury]] | [[Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham|Francis Conyngham, Earl of Mount Charles]] | 30 April 1827{{Spaced en dash}}{{indent|1}}26 January 1828 |- | [[Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere|Lord Francis Leveson-Gower]] | 30 April 1827{{Spaced en dash}}{{indent|1}}8 September 1827 |- | [[Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans|Edward Eliot, Baron Eliot]] | 30 April 1827{{Spaced en dash}}{{indent|1}}26 January 1828 |- | [[Edmund Alexander Macnaghten]] | 30 April 1827{{Spaced en dash}}{{indent|1}}26 January 1828 |- | [[Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry|Maurice FitzGerald]] | 31 July 1827{{Spaced en dash}}{{indent|1}}26 January 1828 |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Lord President of the Council]] | '''[[Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby]]''' | Continued in office |- | '''[[William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland]]''' | 17 August 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Lord Chancellor]] | '''[[John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst]]''' | 2 May 1827 |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Home Secretary]] | '''[[William Sturges Bourne]]''' | 20 April 1827 |- | '''[[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne]]''' | 16 July 1827 |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department]] | [[Spencer Perceval (junior)|Spencer Perceval]] | 30 April 1827 |- | [[Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle|Thomas Spring Rice]] | 16 July 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (UK)|Foreign Secretary]] | '''[[John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley|John Ward, 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward]]'''{{efn|Created [[Earl of Dudley]] on 5 October 1827.}} | 30 April 1827 |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] | [[Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden]] | Continued in office |- | [[Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde]] | Continued in office <br>until 17 August 1827 |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]] | '''[[Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich]]''' | 30 April 1827 |- | '''[[William Huskisson]]''' | 3 September 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]] | [[Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet|Robert Wilmot Horton]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[President of the Board of Trade]] | '''[[William Huskisson]]''' | Continued in office |- | '''[[Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg|Charles Grant]]''' | 3 September 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Vice-President of the Board of Trade]] | [[Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg|Charles Grant]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[President of the Board of Control]] | '''[[Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850)|Charles Williams-Wynn]]''' | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Secretary to the Board of Control]] | [[Thomas Courtenay (British politician)|Thomas Courtenay]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom|Lord High Admiral]] | [[William IV|Prince William, Duke of Clarence]] | 17 April 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[First Secretary to the Admiralty]] | [[John Wilson Croker]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Lord Privy Seal]] | '''[[William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland]]''' | 30 April 1827 |- | '''[[George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle]]''' | 16 July 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] | '''[[Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley]]''' | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Master-General of the Ordnance]] | '''[[Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey]]''' | 30 April 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance]] | Sir [[William Henry Clinton]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Treasurer of the Ordnance]] | [[William Holmes (1779–1851)|William Holmes]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Surveyor-General of the Ordnance]] | Sir [[Edward Owen (Royal Navy officer)|Edward Owen]] | 14 May 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Clerk of the Ordnance]] | [[Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet]] | 4 May 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance]] | [[Edmund Phipps (MP)|Edmund Phipps]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Storekeeper of the Ordnance]] | [[Mark Singleton (politician)|Mark Singleton]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Treasurer of the Navy]] | '''[[William Huskisson]]''' | Continued in office |- | '''[[Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg|Charles Grant]]''' | 10 September 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Secretary at War]] | '''[[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]]''' | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Master of the Mint]] | '''[[George Tierney]]''' | 29 May 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Paymaster of the Forces]] | [[William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey|William Vesey-FitzGerald]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[First Commissioner of Woods and Forests]] | [[George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle]] | 30 May 1827 |- | '''[[William Sturges Bourne]]''' | 23 July 1827 |- ! scope=row rowspan=2 | [[Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom)|Ministers without Portfolio]] | '''[[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne]]'''{{efn|Appointed Home Secretary July 1827.}} | May 1827 |- | '''[[William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland]]'''{{efn|Appointed Lord President August 1827.}} | May 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] | [[Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]] | [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|William Lamb]] | 29 April 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Attorney General for England and Wales|Attorney General]] | Sir [[James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger|James Scarlett]] | 27 April 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Solicitor General for England and Wales|Solicitor General]] | [[Nicolas Conyngham Tindal]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom)|Judge Advocate General]] | [[James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline|James Abercromby]] | 12 May 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Lord Advocate]] | [[Sir William Rae, 3rd Baronet]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Solicitor General for Scotland]] | [[John Hope, Lord Hope|John Hope]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Attorney General for Ireland]] | [[Henry Joy (judge)|Henry Joy]] | 18 June 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Solicitor General for Ireland]] | [[John Doherty (Irish politician)|John Doherty]] | 18 June 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Lord Steward of the Household]] | [[Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Lord Chamberlain of the Household]] | [[William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire]] | 5 May 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Vice-Chamberlain of the Household]] | Sir [[Samuel Hulse]] | 5 May 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Master of the Horse]] | [[George Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds]] | 4 May 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Treasurer of the Household]] | Sir [[William Henry Fremantle]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Comptroller of the Household]] | [[Lord George Beresford]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners]] | [[Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford]] | 1827 |- ! scope=row | [[Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard]] | [[George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield]] | Continued in office |- ! scope=row | [[Master of the Buckhounds]] | [[William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington|William Wellesley-Pole, 1st Baron Maryborough]] | Continued in office |}
;Notes {{notelist}}
==References== * Chris Cook and John Stevenson, ''British Historical Facts 1760–1830'' * Joseph Haydn and Horace Ockerby, ''The Book of Dignities''
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