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Hereditary Genius
Bedford, John, 4th Duke.
GF. William, Lord Russell; patriot; executed 1683.
GF. Lady Rachel W. Russell, her husband's secretary. “Letters.”
PP. 1st Earl Russell; Reform leader as Lord John Russell, and three times Premier.
Bentinck, William H. Cavendish; 3d Duke of Portland; Premier, 1783-4 and 1807-
10.
S. Lord Wm. Henry Bentinck; Governor-General of India, who abolished Suttee,
and established the liberty of the Indian press.
P. Lord George Bentinck, M.P.; became an eminent financier and a leading
statesman in middle age, after a life previously devoted to racing interests.
Bolingbroke, Henry; created Viscount St. John; the celebrated Secretary of State to
Queen Anne. (His name is appended to Brougham's list of Statesmen of Geo.
III.)
g. Sir Oliver St. John, Ch. Just. C. P. under the Protectorate (and who himself was
cousin to another judge, S. Brown (see), under Charles II.).
Bute, Earl. See STUART.
Camden, Earl; Lord Chancellor. See under JUDGES. F. and S.
Canning, George; created Lord Canning; Premier, 1827. Not precocious as a child,
but remarkable as a schoolboy. (“Microcosm,” aet. 15, and “Anti-Jacobin.”)
Scholar, orator, and most able statesman. The Canning family had sensitive and
irritable temperaments.
[F.] A man of considerable literary acquirements.
[f.] Had great beauty and accomplishments. She took to the stage after her
husband's death without much success; they had both been separated from the
rest of the Canning family.
US. Stratford Canning; created Lord Stratford de Redcliffe; ambassador at the
Porte; the “great Elchi.”
[US.] George Canning, F.R.S., F.S.A., created Lord Garvagh.
S. Charles; created Earl Canning; was Governor-General of India during the
continuance and suppression of the Indian Mutiny.
Castlereagh. See STEWART.
Disraeli, Rt. Hon. Benjamin; Premier, 1868. Precocious;
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