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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 ...
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 ...
When Henry Addington was born in 1720, in Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, John Addington, was 50 and his mother, Elizabeth Maddock, was 15. He married Sarah Elizabeth Burson in 1744, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters.
Addington is a village and area in south London, England, within the London Borough of Croydon. It is south of Spring Park , west of Coney Hall , north of New Addington and east of Forestdale and Selsdon , and is 11.1 miles (18 km) south of Charing Cross and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of the centre of Croydon .
1 de abr. de 2002 · No modern British Prime Minister has been so thoroughly misunderstood or simply dismissed as Henry Addington. Fedorak demonstrates that, contrary to the views of his opponents and many historians, Addington was an astute and effective Prime Minister. His fall after three years in office was the result of a complex train of circumstances in which questions of personality, both within and ...
Henry Addington. "It was impossible not to discover those seeds of animosity, which have been matured by circumstances into insurrection and rebellion" (about Ireland) Henry Addington. "Make them look with irritation at power". Henry Addington. "It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed".
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.
