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 ...
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Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (born May 30, 1757, London—died Feb. 15, 1844, Richmond, Surrey, Eng.), British prime minister from March 1801 to May 1804. Honest but unimaginative and inflexibly conservative, he proved unable to cope with the problems of the Napoleonic Wars, and later, in his decade as home secretary, he made himself ...
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29 de dic. de 2017 · Henry Addington’s historical reputation owes less to his brief spell as Prime Minister than to his later career as a famously reactionary Home Secretary after becoming Viscount Sidmouth. However,...
Henry Unwin Addington, nephew of the first viscount, was a diplomat and civil servant. The family seat now is Highway Manor (near Calne, Wiltshire) which was inherited in 1936. [3] The former ancestral seat was Upottery Manor, near Upottery, Devon. Viscounts Sidmouth (1805) Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844)
In March 1802 the two countries signed the Treaty of Amiens, which brought to an end nearly nine years of war. However both the British Prime Minister Henry Addington and Napoleon viewed the peace as temporary, and so it was, with Britain declaring war on France on 18 May 1803. William Pitt replaced Addington as Prime Minister on 10 ...
Sin embargo, Pitt renunció en febrero de 1801 por cuestiones domésticas y fue reemplazado por el más complaciente Henry Addington. En este punto, de acuerdo con Schroeder, Reino Unido fue motivado por el peligro de una guerra con Rusia.
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