Rt Hon. Viscount Henry Addington PC
(1757-1844)
Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Privy Seal, Privy Counsellor (from 1789), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1801-1804), and 16th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1801-1804)
Died aged c. 87
Wikidata WikipediaHenry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, PC (30 May 1757 – 15 February 1844) was an English 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 French Revolutionary Wars. When that treaty broke down he resumed the war, but he was without allies and conducted relatively weak defensive hostilities, ahead of what would become the War of the Third Coalition. He was forced from office in favour of William Pitt the Younger, who had preceded Addington as Prime Minister. Addington is also known for his reactionary crackdown on advocates of democratic reforms during a ten-year spell as Home Secretary from 1812 to 1822. He is the longest continuously serving holder of that office since it was created in 1782.
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Commemorated on 2 plaques
Dr Anthony Addington 1713-1790 Doctor of Medicine, University of Oxford; physician to King George III, 'The Mad King' His son, Henry Addington (Viscount Sidmouth), Prime Minister, 1801-1804 lived and worked here
London Street, Reading, United Kingdom where they lived and worked
This market cross was erected by Henry Viscount Sidmouth as a memorial of his grateful attachment to the borough of Devizes of which he has been Recorder thirty years and of which he was six times unanimously chosen as representative in Parliament. Anno Domini 1814
, Devizes, United Kingdom where they donated (1814)