Richard Canning (abt. 1557 - 1624)

Born about 1557 in England

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Died 16 Apr 1624 at about age 67 in England

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Richard Canning was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Richard Canninge was born about 1557, as University of Oxford records have a Richard Canninge "of co. Warwick, pleb. Gloucester Hall, matric. entry under date 10 Jan. 1574-5, aged 18; perhaps of Foxcote."^[1] "In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Foxcote like this: FOXCOTE, a village in Ilmington parish, Warwick; 4¼ miles W of Shipston-on-Stour. The estate around it belonged, in the time of Henry VI., to Sir William Montfort; went to the Marshalls; and passed to the Cannings, - of whom was the famous premier, the Right Hon. George Canning."^[2]

Richard was the son of Richard Canninge of Foxcote, co Warwick, and his wife, Elizabeth Petty, the daughter of Richard Petty of Ilmington.^[3]

Richard was the brother of:^[3]

1. Thomas Canninge (? died 5 April 1595^[4]), said to have been a merchant of Bristol;^[5]
2. William Canninge, a merchant of London;^{[5] [6]}
3. Isaac, a Turkey Merchant, died at Constantinople;^[5]
4. Edward;^[6]
5. Robert (died 13 January 1590^[4]);
6. Paul,^[4] Ambassador to the great Mogul, died at Agra;^[5]
7. George ^[4] Canninge of Barton-on-the-Heath and of Garvagh, co Londonderry, (settled at the manor of Garvagh which was obtained through a grant from Queen Elizabeth I of England), died 1646, married Anne, the daughter of Gilbert Walker of Walford, co Worcester;^[7] and
8. daughter Rylands;^[4]
9. Ann Cannyge married 11 August 1589 to Thomas Rowney;^[4]

Richard Canninge of Foxcote married:^[3]

1. Mary Sambache, (died 1594^[4]) the daughter of William Sambache of Broadway, co Worcester, and they had children;
   1. William (son of Richard Cannyng the younger baptised 30 May 1591^[4]), Canning of Foxcote, Patron of the living of Bradforton in 1632, who married 1) Anne, the daughter and heir of Thomas Haywood of Bradforton and 2) Mary, the daughter of Edward Porter of Ashton, co Gloucester, and sister of Sir Endymion Porter;
   2. Richard Canninge, who married Jane, the daughter of — Stafford of co Stafford;
   3. Anne who married Thomas Jacobs; and
   4. Elenor who married John Wakerley of Sudbury, co Suffolk;
2. Jane Porter, the daughter of Edward Porter of Aston co Gloucester, and they had no children. Mrs Jane Canninge widdowe died 18 August 1633.^[4]

Richard's father, made his will in 1607: "Will of Richard Canning the elder of Foxcote, who was married to Elizabeth [Petty], bequeathed 100 pounds to son William Canning; 50 pounds to son Edward Canning; 100 pounds to George Canning in money, 100 sheep and lands at Barton-on-the-Heath [Warwickshire]; 400 marks to Paul Canning, also a son; 20 pounds to his daughter Ryland. Mentions of [a] son, Edward and brother, George Canning. Will at Somerset House."^[6]

His mother, Elizabeth Canning of Foxcott, widow, died 4 August, 1611.^[4]

Richard Canninge the elder of Foxcote gent. died on 16 April, 1624.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ University of Oxford, Alumni Oxonienses : the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714: their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees, Ed. Joseph Foster, I—Early Series, (Oxford: Parker and Co, 1891), accessed 27 August 2015, https://archive.org/stream/cu31924084672959#page/n249/mode/2up pp.234.
2. ↑ GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Foxcote, in Stratford on Avon and Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time. URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25528, Date accessed: 28th August 2015.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Pryce, 1854, p. 146, accessed 27 August 2015.
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10} George W Marshall, ed., "The Cannings of Foxcott", The Genealogist, IV, (London: George Bell and Sons, 1880), accessed 27 August 2015, https://archive.org/stream/genealogist04mars#page/n333/mode/2up pp.159-60.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Pryce, 1854, p. 147, accessed 27 August 2015.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} James Canning, Family Notes, 29 June 2015.
7. ↑ Pryce, 1854, p. 150, accessed 27 August 2015.

See also:

• George Pryce, Memorials of the Canynges' family and their times; their claim to be regarded as the founders and restorers of Westbury College and Redcliffe Church, critically examined, to which is added inedited memoranda relating to Chatterton, (Bristol: Printed for the author by John Wright, Bristol Steam Press, 1854), accessed 27 August 2015, https://archive.org/stream/memorialsofcanyn00prycuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ..
• Visitation of Warwickshire 1619, ed. Fetherston, Harleian Soc. 12 (1877), p. 225, Canning.
• Will of William Sambache of Broadway, Worcestershire 27 November 1612 PROB 11/120/580
• Worcester Wills & Administrations 1556-57, #100a, is for a Richard Sambache of Broadway.