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Christopher Addison

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Addison
KG PC FRCS
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Lord President of the Council
In office
9 March 1951 – 26 October 1951
Monarch George VI
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
Preceded by Herbert Morrison
Succeeded by The Lord Woolton
Paymaster General
In office
2 July 1948 – 1 April 1949
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
Preceded by Hilary Marquand
Succeeded by Gordon Macdonald
Lord Privy Seal
In office
7 October 1947 – 9 March 1951
Monarch George VI
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
Preceded by The Lord Inman
Succeeded by Ernest Bevin
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
In office
3 August 1945 – 7 July 1947
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
Preceded by Viscount Cranborne
Succeeded by Philip Noel-Baker
Leader of the House of Lords
In office
3 August 1945 – 26 October 1951
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
Preceded by Viscount Cranborne
Succeeded by The Marquess of Salisbury
Minister of Agriculture
In office
5 June 1930 – 24 August 1931
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
Preceded by Noel Buxton
Succeeded by Sir John Gilmour, Bt
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
In office
4 June 1929 – 5 June 1930
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
Preceded by George Rous
Succeeded by Herbrand Sackville
Minister without portfolio
In office
1 April 1921 – 14 July 1921
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Preceded by Laming Worthington-Evans
Succeeded by Anthony Eden
Minister of Health
In office
24 June 1919 – 1 April 1921
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Preceded by office established
Himself (as President of the Local Government Board)
Succeeded by Alfred Mond
President of the Local Government Board
In office
10 January 1919 – 24 June 1919
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Preceded by Auckland Geddes
Succeeded by office abolished
Himself (as Minister of Health)
Minister of Reconstruction
In office
17 July 1917 – 10 January 1919
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Preceded by New office
Succeeded by Auckland Geddes
Minister of Munitions
In office
10 December 1916 – 17 July 1917
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Preceded by Hon. Edwin Samuel Montagu
Succeeded by Winston Churchill
Member of Parliament
for Swindon
In office
30 May 1929 – 27 October 1931
Preceded by Reginald Mitchell Banks
Succeeded by Reginald Mitchell Banks
In office
25 October 1934 – 14 November 1935
Preceded by Reginald Mitchell Banks
Succeeded by Wavell Wakefield
Member of Parliament
for Shoreditch
Hoxton (1910–1918)
In office
10 January 1910 – 15 November 1922
Preceded by Claude George Drummond Hay
Succeeded by Ernest Griffith Price
Personal details
Born 19 June 1869 (1869-06-19)
Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire
Died 11 December 1951 (1951-12-12) (aged 82)
Nationality British
Political party Liberal
Labour
Spouse(s) (1) Isobel Gray (d. 1934)
(2) Beatrice Low (d. 1982)
Alma mater University of London

Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison KG PC FRCS (19 June 1869 – 11 December 1951) was a British medical doctor and politician. By turns a Liberal and a Labourite, he served as Minister of Munitions during the First World War, and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under Clement Attlee.

He was a prominent anatomist, and perhaps the most eminent doctor ever to enter the Commons. He was a leader in issues of health, wartime munitions, housing and agriculture. Although not highly visible, he played a major role in the postwar governments that followed both world wars. Addison worked hard to promote the National Insurance scheme in 1911. Lloyd George made him the first Minister of Health during the wartime coalition, and Addison started up the first programme of publicly-funded local authority housing schemes with his Housing Act of 1919. He and Lloyd George fell out and he joined the Labour Party,

Addison was born in the rural parish of Hogsthorpe in Lincolnshire, the son of Robert Addison and Susan, daughter of Charles Fanthorpe. His family had owned and run a farm for several generations and he maintained a strong interest in agriculture and rural matters throughout his life. He attended Trinity College, Harrogate, from the age of thirteen. He trained in medicine at Sheffield School of Medicine and St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. His education was expensive for his family, and he insisted on re-paying his parents once he had begun his career.

In 1892, Addison graduated from the University of London as a Bachelor of Medicine and Science with honours in forensic medicine. A year later he qualified as a Medical Doctor and two years after that he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He combined private practice with academic research, and taught anatomy at Sheffield School of Medicine. In 1896 he became professor of anatomy at the newly formed University College of Sheffield, and edited the Quarterly Medical Journal from 1898 to 1901. In 1901, he moved to London again, teaching at Charing Cross Hospital. He published his research on anatomy and became Hunterian professor with the Royal College of Surgeons.


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