Erection date: 2/5/1832
{On the front of the plinth:}
George Canning
Bronze.
SW1, Parliament Square, Canning Green
The statue was first erected in Palace Yard in 1832 and moved to this site in 1867, the first statue in Parliament Square.
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George Canning statue
Prime Minister 1827-1827 (only 119 days, the shortest PM tenure). Born Maryle...
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George Canning statue
Sculptor. Born Grosvenor Square. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhib...
Millais helped found the Tate Gallery in the building behind. Peter Duby points out that this statue is unusual in that it incorporate...
Statue unveiled by James Callaghan when he was foreign secretary.
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On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...
The Austin Friars house, built in 1253, used to occupy this area.
Rifleman Harold Charles Nokes. His name is shown spelt incorrectly as Harold Noakes on the Hoxton War Memorial. He was born in 1897, the younger child of Edward Charles Nokes (1865-1948) and Amel...
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