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Henry Addington

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Sidmouth
PC
Henry Addington by Beechey.jpg
Portrait by Sir William Beechey
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office
14 March 1801 – 10 May 1804
Monarch George III
Preceded by William Pitt the Younger
Succeeded by William Pitt the Younger
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
17 March 1801 – 10 May 1804
Monarch George III
Preceded by William Pitt the Younger
Succeeded by William Pitt the Younger
Lord President of the Council
In office
14 January – 10 July 1805
Monarch George III
Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger
Preceded by The Duke of Portland
Succeeded by The Earl Camden
In office
8 October 1806 – 26 March 1807
Monarch George III
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
Preceded by The Earl Fitzwilliam
Succeeded by The Earl Camden
In office
8 April – 11 June 1812
Preceded by The Earl Camden
Succeeded by The Earl of Harrowby
Home Secretary
In office
08 June 1812 – 17 January 1822
Preceded by Richard Ryder
Succeeded by Robert Peel
Personal details
Born (1757-05-30)30 May 1757
Bedford Row, Holborn, Middlesex, England
Died 15 February 1844(1844-02-15) (aged 86)
White Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, England
Political party Tory
Spouse(s) Ursula Hammond (m. 1781; d. 1811)
Alma mater Brasenose College, Oxford
Religion Church of England
Signature Cursive signature in ink

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, PC (30 May 1757 – 15 February 1844) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister from 1801 to 1804. He 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 a relatively weak defensive war, 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 ruthless and efficient crackdown on dissent 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.

Henry Addington was the son of Anthony Addington, Pitt'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 William Pitt the Younger. Addington studied at Reading School, Winchester and Brasenose College, Oxford, and then studied law at Lincoln's Inn. Addington is a relative of Robert Sharrock who collaborated with Robert Boyle (Boyle's law) (The Peerage Person Page - 57646). Addington is the relative of John Sharrock of the "Visitation Family" (1620) of Cornwall. David Sharrock, Heralds’ Visitation of Cornwall (http://www.sharrockname.co.uk)


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