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UK. England. London. 51°20′34″N 0°01′00″W / . 51.3427°N 0.0167°W. / 51.3427; -0.0167. New Addington is an area of South London, England, within the London Borough of Croydon. It is located 5 miles south east of Croydon and is adjacent to the Greater London boundary with Surrey . Bill used to live here.
Henry Addington was born in London on May 30, 1757, the son of a prominent physician, Dr. Anthony Addington. He received his education at Winchester College and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied law. After completing his studies, Addington was admitted to the bar in 1784, and he soon established a successful legal practice.
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.
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 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.
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth. Addington was invited to be Prime Minister in 1801, when William Pitt resigned after the King refused to grant Catholic MPs the right to sit in Parliament. Known for his reactionary politics, Addington was opposed to the abolition of slavery and Catholic emancipation.
24 de feb. de 2024 · E. M. G. Belfield, Annals of the Addington Family, 1959, pp 171-3 for a list of family portraits. Ziegler 1965 Philip Ziegler, Addington, 1965. This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then.