out by position as his only possible successor.
He was not indeed accepted by all the party which had followed
Liverpool. The duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel and several other
members of the ministry, moved perhaps by personal animosity, and
certainly by dislike of his known and consistent advocacy of the claims
of the Roman Catholics, refused to serve with him. Canning succeeded in
constructing a ministry in April--but the hopes and the fears of friends
and enemies proved to be equally unfounded. His health had already begun
to give way, and broke down altogether under the strain of the effort
required to form his ministry. He had caught cold in January at the
funeral of the duke of York, and never recovered. He died on the 8th of
August 1827, at Chiswick, in the house of the duke of Devonshire, where
Fox had died, and in the same room.

See _Speeches_, with a memoir by R. Therry (London, 1826); A.G.
Stapleton, _Political Life of Canning_, 1822-1827 (2nd ed., London,
1831); _Canning and His Times_ (London, 1859); Lord Dalling and
Bulwer, _Historical Characters_ (London, 1868); F.H. Hill, _George
Canning_ (London, 1887); _Some Political Correspondence of George
Canning_, ed. E.J. Stapleton (2 vols., 1897); J.A.R. Marriott, _George
Canning and His Times, a Political Study_ (London, 1903); W. Alison
Phillips, _George Canning_ (London, 1903), with reproductions of
contemporary portraits and caricatures; H.W.V. Temperley, _George
Canning_ (London, 1905).

CANNIZZARO, STANISLAO (1826-1910), Italian chemist, was born at Palermo
on the 13th of July 1826. In 1841 he entered the university of his
native place with the intention of making medicine his profession, but
he soon turned to the study of chemistry, and in 1845 and 1846 acted as
assistant to Rafaelle Piria (1815-1865), known for his work on salicin,
who was then professor of chemistry at Pisa and subsequently occupied
the same position at Turin. During the Sicilian revolution he served as
an artillery officer at Messina and was also chosen deputy for
Francavilla in the Sicilian parliament; and after the fall of Messina in
September 1848 he was stationed at Taormina. On the collapse of the
insurgents he escaped to Marseilles, in May 1849, and after visiting
various French towns reached Paris in October. There he gained an
introduction to M.E. Chevreul's laboratory, and in conjunction with F.S.
Cloez (1817-1883) made his first contribution t