Leopold Ernest Stratford George Canning, 4th Baron Garvagh

[6] Historian Robert Skidelsky characterized the British Fascisti as extreme right-wing group with a disproportionate number of generals and admirals, and dedicated to unrelenting struggle against the power of evil represented by bolshevismMembers of the new party, later known as British Fascists, included generals Ormonde Winter, Julian Tyndale-Biscoe, Roland Erskine-Tulloch, James Spens and Thomas Pilcher; admirals Edmund Fremantle, Reginald Tupper and William Ernest Russell Martin; Lieutenant Colonels Daniel Burges VC DSO and Edward Russell, as well as senior diplomat Arthur Henry Hardinge.

[6] Canning was replaced as President of the British Fascists by Brigadier R. B. D. Blakeney DSO in 1924, as he claimed to live too far away from London to be effective as a leader.

[1] Canning died on 16 July 1956 at the age of 77, and his title of Baron Garvagh passed on to his only surviving son Alexander Leopold Ivor George.

His parents were Charles John Spencer George Canning and Florence Alice de Bretton.

[3] On 1 January 1919, Canning married for a second time to Gladys Dora May Dimmer (née Parker, 1895–1982) in St Matthew's, Bayswater.