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The Right Honourable Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, PC (30 May 175715 February 1844) was a British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804. The Right Honourable (abbreviated The Rt Hon. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ... The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

The Rt Hon. Henry Addington
Henry Addington
Term of Office: 17 March 180110 May 1804
Predecessor: William Pitt the Younger
Successor: William Pitt the Younger
Date of Birth: 30 May 1757
Place of Birth: Holborn, London
Date of Death: 15 February 1844
Place of Death: Richmond, Surrey
Political Party: Tory

Henry Addington was the son of Anthony Addington, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham's physician, and Mary Addington, the daughter of the Rev. Haviland John Hiley, headmaster of Reading School. As a consequence of his father's position, Addington was a childhood friend of Chatham's son, William Pitt the Younger. Addington studied at Winchester and Brasenose College, Oxford, and then studied law at Lincoln's Inn. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1784, and became Speaker of the House of Commons in 1789. In March, 1801, Pitt resigned from office after his failure to achieve Catholic emancipation, and Addington was chosen to succeed him. This work is copyrighted. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Right Honourable William Pitt, the Younger (28 May 1759–23 January 1806) was a British politician during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ... The Right Honourable William Pitt, the Younger (28 May 1759–23 January 1806) was a British politician during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Holborn (pronounced ho-bun or ho-burn) is a place in London, named after a tributary to the river Fleet that flowed through the area, the Hole-bourne (the stream in the hollow). ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,500,000 and a metropolitan area population of between 12 and 14 million. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Richmond is a suburb in southwest London, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The Right Honourable William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (15 November 1708–11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as war minister during the French and Indian War and who was later Prime Minister of Great Britain. ... Reading School is a grammar school in the town of Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. ... The Right Honourable William Pitt, the Younger (28 May 1759–23 January 1806) was a British politician during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ... Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. ... College name Brasenose College Named after Bronze door knocker Established 1509 Sister College Gonville and Caius College Principal Prof. ... Part of Lincolns Inn drawn by Thomas Shepherd c. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant branch of Parliament. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, and is seen historically as the First Commoner of the Land. ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... Catholic Emancipation was a process in Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity and the Test Acts. ...


Addington's ministry was most notable for the negotiation of the Treaty of Amiens, in 1802 in which an unfavourable peace was agreed to with France. It quickly broke down, and Addington's poor management of the war led to Pitt's return to power the next year. Addington remained an important political figure, however. Created Viscount Sidmouth, he joined Pitt's Cabinet as Lord President of the Council, and later served in the Ministry of All the Talents as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President. The Treaty of Amiens was signed on March 25, 1802 (Germinal 4, year X in the French Revolutionary Calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and the Marquis Cornwallis as a Definitive Treaty of Peace between France and the United Kingdom. ... --69. ... The Office of Lord President of the Council is a British cabinet position, the holder of which acts as presiding officer of the Privy Council. ... William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1806-1807. ... The Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is one of the traditional sinecure offices in the British Cabinet. ...


When the Pittites returned to power in 1807, Sidmouth returned to opposition, but returned to government as Lord President of the Council in March, 1812, and, in June of the same year, became Home Secretary. As Home Secretary, Sidmouth brutally crushed radical opposition, being responsible for the suspension of habeas corpus in 1817, and the passage of the repressive Six Acts in 1819. Sidmouth left office in 1822, succeeded as Home Secretary by the much more competent Robert Peel, but remained in the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio for the next two years, fruitlessly opposing British recognition of the South American republics. He remained active in the House of Lords for the next few years, making his final speech in opposition to Catholic Emancipation in 1829 and casting his final vote against the Reform Act 1832. 1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Office of Lord President of the Council is a British cabinet position, the holder of which acts as presiding officer of the Privy Council. ... 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Secretary of State for the Home Department (the Home Secretary) is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order in England and Wales; his or her remit includes policing, the criminal justice system, the prison service, internal security, and matters of citizenship and immigration. ... In English Common Law habeas corpus is the name of several writs which may be issued by a judge ordering a prisoner to be brought before the court. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Following the Peterloo massacre of August 16, 1819, the UK government acted to prevent any future disturbances by the introduction of new legislation, the so-called Six Acts which labelled any meeting for radical reform as an overt act of treasonable conspiracy. Parliament had reconvened on November 23 and the... 1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... For other people named Robert Peel, see Robert Peel (disambiguation). ... A Minister without Portfolio is a government minister with no specific responsibilities. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... Catholic Emancipation was a process in Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity and the Test Acts. ... 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The British Reform Act of 1832 (2 & 3 Will. ...


Addington maintained a home at Bulmershe Court, in what is now the Reading suburb of Woodley, but moved to the White Lodge in Richmond Park when he became Prime Minister. However he maintained links with Woodley and the Reading area, as commander of the Woodley Yeomanry Cavalry and High Steward of Reading. He also donated to the town of Reading the four acres (16,000 m²) of land that is today the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and his name is commemorated in the town's Sidmouth Street and Addington Road. Bulmershe Court is, today, a campus of the University of Reading, situated in what is now the Reading suburb of Woodley, in the English county of Berkshire. ... St Marys Church and market Reading is a town and unitary authority in Berkshire in England, at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, halfway between London and Oxford. ... Location within the British Isles Woodley is a town in the English county of Berkshire. ... A corner of the Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park Richmond Park is the largest of the Royal parks in London, close to Richmond upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames and East Sheen. ... The Royal Berkshire Hospital is a hospital in Reading, Berkshire. ...


Henry Addington's Government, March 1801 - May 1804

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Preceded by:
William Wyndham Grenville
Speaker of the British House of Commons
1789–1801
Succeeded by:
Sir John Mitford
Preceded by:
William Pitt the Younger
Chancellor of the Exchequer
1801–1804
Succeeded by:
William Pitt the Younger
Leader of the House of Commons
1801–1804
Prime Minister
1801–1804
Preceded by:
The Duke of Portland
Lord President of the Council
1805
Succeeded by:
The Earl Camden
Preceded by:
The Earl of Westmorland
Lord Privy Seal
1806
Succeeded by:
The Lord Holland
Preceded by:
The Earl Fitzwilliam
Lord President of the Council
1806–1807
Succeeded by:
The Earl Camden
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The Earl Camden
Lord President of the Council
1812
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The Earl of Harrowby
Preceded by:
Richard Ryder
Home Secretary
1812–1822
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Robert Peel
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William Leonard Addington
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Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth - definition of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth in Encyclopedia (449 words)
Henry Addington, the son of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham's physician, was a childhood friend of Chatham's son, William Pitt the Younger.
Addington's ministry was most notable for the negotiation of the Treaty of Amiens, in 1802 in which an unfavourable peace was agreed to with France.
Sidmouth left office in 1822, succeeded as Home Secretary by the much more competent Robert Peel, but continued to be active in politics for some time, fruitlessly opposing British recognition of the South American republics, Catholic Emancipation, and the Reform Act 1832.
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