Alfred Stratford George Canning

Life
1832-1916; cousin of Stratford Canning, Viscount Redcliffe, a noted British diplomatist; the obit. notice in IBL offers no substantial info. about birth-place, etc., but says that he died at his home in Rostrevor, Co. Down; wrote novels such as Kilsorrell Castle (1863); Kinkora (1864); Baldearg O’Donnell (1867), and Heir and No Heir (1890), set in ‘Dalragh’ for Garvagh with which his family was associated; issued Religious Strife in British History (1878), Revolted Ireland (1886), containing documents of 1798; The Divided Irish (1894), British Rule and Modern Politics (1898), and British Power and Thought (1901); also studies of Scott, Dickens, Thackeray and Shakespeare; inherited title and 4,500 [var. 4,000] acre estate at Rostrevor; Deputy-Lieutenant for Cos. Cown and Derry; d. at Rostrevor, April 1916. IF SUTH OCIL

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Works
Fiction, Kilsorrell Castle (London: Chapman & Hall 1863); Kinkora: An Irish Story, 2 vols. (London: Chapman & Hall 1864); Baldearg O’Donnell: : A Tale of 1690, 2 vols. (London: T. C. Newby 1867; Belfast: Marcus Ward 1881); and Heir and No Heir: A Tale (London: Remington & Co. 1890), 271pp.

Miscellaneous, Christian Toleration: An Essay (London: Kerby & Endean 1874), iv, 123pp.; Religious Strife in British History (1878); Revolted Ireland (1886); The Divided Irish: An Historical Sketch (Newry 1888; rev. edn. London 1894); History in Fact and Fiction: A Literary Sketch (London: Smith & Elder 1897), xv, 336pp.; British Rule and Modern Politics: A Historical Study (London: Smith, Elder & Co. [1898] 1898); British Power and Thought: An Inquiry (London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1901); British Writers on Classic Lands: A Literary Sketch (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1907), 296pp.; Dickens and Thackeray studied in Three Novels (London: T. Fisher Unwin; Leipsig 1911), 313pp.; Dickens Studied in Six Novels (London: T. Fisher Unwin; Leipsig 1912), 176pp.

Bibligraphical details: Dickens and Thackeray studied in Three Novels [‘Pickwick Papers’. ‘Nicholas Nickleby’, ‘Vanity Fair’] (London: T. Fisher Unwin; Leipsig 1911), 313pp.; Dickens Studied in Six Novels [‘Oliver Twist’, ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’, ‘Barnaby Rudge’, ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’, ‘David Copperfield’, ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’] ( London: T. Fisher Unwin; Leipsig 1912), 176pp.

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Criticism

Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919)

John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction, (Harlow: Longmans 1988)

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Notes

British Library holds [1] Baldearg O'Donnell. A tale. Title [Another edition.]. 2 vol. T. C. Newby: London, 1867. 8o.. 2 vol. M. Ward & Co.: London, Belfast, 1881. 8o. [2] British Power and Thought. A historical inquiry. pp. xii. 308. Smith, Elder & Co.: London, 1901. 8o. [3] British Rule and Modern Politics. A historical study. pp. xvi. 342. Smith, Elder & Co.: London, 1899 [1898]. 8o. [4] British Writers on Classic Lands. A literary sketch.. pp. 296. T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1907. 8o. [5] Christian Toleration. An essay. pp. iv. 123. Kerby & Endean: London, 1874. 8o. [6] Dickens and Thackeray studied in Three Novels. (Pickwick Papers. Nicholas Nickleby. Vanity Fair.). pp. 313. T. Fisher Unwin: London, Leipsic, 1911. 8o. [7] Dickens and Thackeray studied in three novels. (Reissued.). Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1967. pp. 313. 23 cm. [8] Dickens studied in Six Novels. (Oliver Twist. The Old Curiosity Shop. Barnaby Rudge. Martin Chuzzlewit. David Copperfield. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.). pp. 176. T. Fisher Unwin: London, Leipsic, 1912. 8o. [9] Heir and no Heir. A tale.. pp. 271. Remington & Co.: London, 1890. 8o. [10] History in Fact and Fiction. A literary sketch. pp. xv. 336. Smith & Elder: London, 1897. 8o.

Belfast Linen Hall Library holds Divided Irish (1st ed. 1888, Newry; revised 1894); Revolted Ireland (extracts from accounts of 1798).

W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (1984), notes that Stratford Canning was composing a paper on the future territorial claims of Greece at his death [225]. Bibl., S. Lane-Poole, The Life of the Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning (London 1880)

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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)