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)
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)