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Joan Canning, 1st Viscountess Canning

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Joan Canning, 1st Viscountess Canning (née Scott; 1776 – 14 March 1837) was the wife of British prime minister George Canning.

She was born in Scotland, the daughter of Major-General John Scott and Margaret Dundas. Her sisters were Henrietta Bentinck, Duchess of Portland and Lucy, wife of Francis Stuart, 10th Earl of Moray.

On 8 July 1800, she married George Canning in St George's, Hanover Square on Hanover Square, London, with John Hookham Frere and William Pitt the Younger as witnesses. They had four children:

On 22 January 1828, nearly six months after the death of her husband, Joan was created 1st Viscountess Canning of Kilbraham, with a special remainder to the heirs male of her late husband. She lived with her youngest son in the family's London home in Grosvenor Square.[1]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Joan Canning, 1st Viscountess Canning
Escutcheon
Or, on a bend azure a mullet of six points between two crescents of the first differenced by a bordure engrailed gules and a crescent of the last (A difference of Scott of Buccleuch, Scotland).
Supporters
Dexter a lion Argent charged on the shoulder with three trefoils slipped Vert and holding in the sinister forepaw an arrow point downwards. Sinister a cormorant holding in its beak a branch of laver all Proper.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Grosvenor Square: Individual Houses built before 1926 Pages 117-166 Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings)". British History Online. LCC 1980. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1831.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Viscountess Canning
1828–1837
Succeeded by