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3 de sept. de 2019 · Addington; a life of Henry Addington, first viscount Sidmouth by Ziegler, Philip. Publication date 1965 ... EPUB and PDF access not available for this item.
Biografía. Henry Addington nació el 30 de mayo de 1757, y falleció el 15 de febrero de 1844.Fue hijo de Anthony Addington y Mary Addington, quien a su vez era hija del reverendo Haviland John Hiley, rector de la Reading School. Como consecuencia de la posición de su padre, Henry fue desde pequeño amigo de William Pitt (el joven).
Henry Addington 29 Whoever succeeded the Younger Pitt was likely to be regarded as something of an anti-climax, and this was certainly the fate of Henry Addington, whose premiership lasted from March 1801 to May 1804, bridging the period between Pitt’s two administrations. The butt of a spiteful jibe by George Canning that
6 de feb. de 2007 · Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington), b. 1874. Publication date 1908 Topics Ghosts Publisher New York : Moffat, Yard ... PDF download. download 1 file ...
- Pursuing Peace
- Repressive and Reactionary?
- A Significant Legacy
When Pitt resigned as Prime Minister in 1801 over the issue of Catholic Emancipation, both Pitt and George III identified Addington as the obvious successor. In office he declared the pursuit of peace as his government’s priority, not least on the grounds that further military conflict was financially unaffordable, and his government negotiated the...
Addington, now Viscount Sidmouth, briefly returned to government as Lord President of the Council in Pitt’s second administration, and then served in William Grenville’s ministry. His resignation in 1807 left him out of office until in 1812, when Lord Liverpool asked him to become Home Secretary. He continued in this office throughout the years of ...
The growing prominence and influence of George Canning, often presented as the embodiment of a new liberal Toryism, was one factor in his retirement from politics in 1824, two years after he ceased to be Home Secretary and 20 years before his death on 15 February 1844. However, not only was Addington’s contribution to British politics more substant...
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. Addington is best known for obtaining the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, an unfavourable peace with Napoleonic France which marked the end of the Second Coalition during the ...
1 de abr. de 2002 · Charles John Fedorak. Download Text (523 KB) Description. 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.
