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{{Short description|Faction of the British Tories}}{{see also|Canningite government, 1827–1828}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| president = | chairperson = | general_secretary =| first_secretary =| secretary_general = | presidium =| secretary =| spokesperson = | founder = | leader1_title = | leader1_name = | leader2_title = | leader2_name = | leader3_title = | leader3_name = | leader4_title = | leader4_name = | leader5_title = | leader5_name = | slogan = | founded = 1820s| legalised = Whigs (British political party)>Whigs| successor = | headquarters = | newspaper = | think_tank = | student_wing = | youth_wing = | wing1_title = | wing1 = | wing2_title = | wing2 = | wing3_title = | wing3 = | membership_year = | membership = ToryismConservatism in the United Kingdom>ConservatismCatholic emancipationFree tradeCentrism>Centre to Centre-right| religion = Tories (British political party)>Tories| international = | affiliation1_title = | affiliation1 = | colors = | anthem = | symbol = | flag = | website = | country = the United Kingdom}}Canningites were a faction of British Tories in the first decade of the 19th century through the 1820s who were led by George Canning.{{Citation |last=Ziegler |first=Paul R. |title=The Making of a Canningite |date=2003 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-4039-1_2 |work=Palmerston |pages=7–28 |editor-last=Ziegler |editor-first=Paul R. |access-date=2023-07-05 |series=British History in Perspective |place=London |publisher=Macmillan Education UK |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4039-4039-1_2 |isbn=978-1-4039-4039-1}} The Canningites were distinct within the Tory party because they favoured Catholic emancipation and free trade.JOURNAL, Aspinall, A., December 1934, ”The Canningite Party”,weblink Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, en, 17, 177–226, 10.2307/3678525, 0080-4401, After the incapacity of Lord Liverpool in 1827, Canning was asked to form a government. Because Canning did not have the full support of the Tory party, which was split between Canningites and Ultra-Tories, he created a coalition government with his Canningites allying themselves with the Whigs. Canning died in August 1827 and the Canningite Lord Goderich became Prime Minister, but his government collapsed in January 1828. The Canningites then allied themselves with the Tories, led by the Duke of Wellington. They resigned in May 1828, though, on the issue of allocating seats from disenfranchised corrupt boroughs to the new growing cities of England.Now usually known as the 'Huskissonites' (after their new leader, William Huskisson) the group numbered a bare dozen or so in the House of Commons, with greater support in the House of Lords. For the next year and half they acted as a separate group between the two main parties, and were courted by both. After Huskisson died in 1830 (in a railway accident, the first recorded casualty of this new form of transport), the remainder of the group decided to join the Whigs and voted against the Tory government in a parliament in favour of electoral reform. Wellington resigned as prime minister and the surviving Canningite/Huskissonites joined the new Whig cabinet of Earl Grey in November 1830. Very soon after they ceased to act as a recognisable separate political grouping.In addition to Goderich and Huskisson, prominent Canningites included:{{Div col begin}}

• Granville Leveson-Gower
• Edward John Littleton
• Viscount Palmerston
• William Sturges Bourne
• Robert John Wilmot-Horton
• Charles Grant

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See also

• Peelites, another eponymous group of early 19th-century centrist Tories that supported free trade

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