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Henry Addington war ein Sohn Anthony Addingtons, Arzt von William Pitt dem Älteren. Wegen der Position seines Vaters war Addington ein Jugendfreund William Pitts des Jüngeren . Addington erhielt seine Ausbildung am Winchester College und am Brasenose College in Oxford und studierte dann Jura am Lincoln’s Inn . 1784 wurde er für den Wahlkreis Devizes ins Unterhaus gewählt und 1789 dessen ...
Henry Addington was an unpopular prime minister and in 1804 large numbers of his own party turned against him and he decided to resign. The following year Addington was granted the title of Lord Sidmouth and agreed to serve as a minister in Pitt's government. However, he only served under William Pitt for six months.
Henry Addington was a prominent participant in national affairs from 1789 to 1824 particularly as Prime Minister of the conservative pro-peace and financial retrenchment government of 1801-1804 and as Home Secretary, 1812-1822, in which position he actively enforced the government's policy against political and economic unrest - the repression of the Luddites and the Peterloo Massacre being ...
Henry Addington served as Prime Minister from 17 March 1801 to 10 May 1804. He was born on 30 May 1757. He was the eldest son and fourth of six children born to Dr Anthony Addington and Mary Hiley. Dr. Addington included among his patients George III and Pitt the Younger. It was he who prescribed a bottle of port daily, to cure Pitt's gout.
Henry Addington byl synem Anthonyho Addingtona, lékaře Williama Pitta staršího, a Mary Addingtonové, dcery Havilanda Johna Hileyho, ředitele školy v Readingu. Z pozice svého otce byl v mládí přítelem Williama Pitta mladšího. Studoval na Winchesterské škole, později na Brasenose College v Oxfordu a nakonec právo na Lincoln's Inn.
Letter to Hiley Addington (1 November 1804), quoted in Philip Ziegler, Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth (1965), p. 227; I have said, and said most truly, that if the country was well governed, and its affairs ably conducted, I cared little in whose hands the Administration was placed.
4 de may. de 2021 · The first of these is Henry Addington, a man at the forefront of British politics for more than thirty years, who holds the unusual distinction of having served as both Speaker and Prime Minister. This achievement was all the more remarkable because, in an age when British politics was dominated by aristocratic families, Addington had risen ...
