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Lord Stratford de Redcliffe (Sir Stratford Canning)
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At this house, in the corner of the Square between Upper Grosvenor Street and South Audley Street, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe - known more generally, perhaps, by his former name of Sir Stratford Canning - subsequently lived for a number of years.
He was a brother—in-law of Thomas Raikes, having married Miss Harriet Raikes in 1816. A great diplomatist, he represented this country successively in Switzerland, America, Russia, and Turkey, and sat in Parliament from 1828 to 1841.
He negotiated the treaty of Bucharest in 1812, and was raised to the peerage in 1852. At his house in Grosvenor Square he produced various literary efforts in his elderly years, and died as late as 1880, at the great age of 94.
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