Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , Tristán White
writes

Seeing you're all going on ad nauseum about station names, how about
my local one, Canning Town?


My sources say it was named after Earl [1] Charles John Canning, last
Governor-General (1856-8) and first Viceroy (1858-62) of India (he was
in power during the Mutiny). This makes sense since the town sprung up
around 1850 to house workers servicing the docks handling traffic to and
from India.

If it's the same Canning as Canning Dock in Liverpool, then it seems to
go back a little further:

http://www.diduknow.info/docks/acces..._history8.html

1832
Canning Dock is officially named after the politician, George Canning.

Though it was built much earlier, if this source is right:

http://www.merseyside.org.uk/researc...fLiverpool.pdf

The first commercial wet dock in the world was Canning Dock, built in
Liverpool in 1715.