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Henry Addington formed his ministry when Pitt the Younger resigned over the issue of Catholic Emancipation following the Act of Union with Ireland. He had been Speaker of the House of Commons since 1789 but had to resign this post in order to form his ministry. On 2 April 1801 the Danish fleet in Copenhagen was destroyed by Nelson: this was an ...
Henry Addington (1757-1844) First Viscount Sidmouth from 1805. Home Secretary, 1812-22. Minister without Portfolio, 1822-24. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1789-1801. Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1801-4. Lord President of the Council, 1805, 1806-7 and 1812. Lord Privy Seal, 1806. The son of the Pitt family’s physician, he ...
Addington, who had no ambition for higher office, agreed to become Prime Minister only because his predecessor, William Pitt the Younger, and King George III insisted. He immediately faced the serious and difficult challenge of leading a relatively inexperienced Cabinet to deal with a series of military, diplomatic, economic and social crises caused by war and famine.
Addington was invariably re-elected unanimously to the Chair, and to his expense-free seat for Devizes on the interest of his brother-in-law James Sutton, though had an opening occurred for Oxford University, he was expected to be the strongest contender.2 A modest politician, he resisted an opportunity to step into Henry Dundas’s shoes as Home secretary in 1793.3
Henry Addington. Henry Addington, Sidmoutheko I. bizkondea ( Londres, 1757ko maiatzaren 30a - ibidem, 1844ko otsailaren 15a) britainiar Tory politikaria izan zen. 1801etik 1804ra Erresuma Batuko lehen ministroa izan zen. Aita Pitt "Zaharra"-ren sendagilea izan zen, eta Henry, txikitatik, Pitt "Gaztea"ren laguna izan zen.
Henry Addington (circa 1803) Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth PC (30 May 1757 – 15 February 1844) was a British Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804.
Out-manoeuvred by Pitt in 1804, Addington was made viscount in 1805 and played a significant political role up until the end of his life. An increasingly strict conservative, he opposed both the emancipation of Catholics in 1829 and the Great Reform Act of 1832. During his period as home secretary he was efficient but repressive (one of his ...
