SIDMOUTH, HENRY ADDINGTON, VISCOUNT

1757–1844, British statesman. He entered Parliament in 1784 and in 1789, through the sponsorship of William Pitt, became speaker of the House of Commons. He subscribed to Pitt's policies in the French wars, and when Pitt resigned because of George III's refusal to approve Catholic Emancipation, Addington became (1801) prime minister. The chief event of his administration was the Treaty of Amiens (1802) with Napoleon I. On the renewal of war, his ineffectual ministry yielded (1804) to Pitt, upon whose tolerance it had depended. Addington was created Viscount Sidmouth in 1805. Since Sidmouth controlled nearly 50 votes in Parliament, his support remained valuable to the government, and he served as president of the council under Pitt (1805), Lord Grenville (1806–7), and Spencer Perceval (1812) and as home secretary under Lord Liverpool (1812–22). In the last position he incurred great odium for his part in the government's policy of repression—its strong measures against the Luddites, its periodic suspension of habeas corpus, and the Peterloo massacre.

See biography by P. Ziegler (1965).

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Portrait of a Golden Age: Intimate Papers of the Second Viscount Palmerston Courtier under George III
Book by Brian Allan Connell, Henry Temple Palmerston; Houghton Mifflin, 1958
Subjects: Eighteenth Century, Great Britain--History--George Iii, 1760-1820--Sources
...Bennet, 1802 15 letter from Henry Drummond, 1802 1 letter...Heaphy, 1802 1 letter from Henry Addington afterwards Lord Sidmouth , 1803 7 miscellaneous letters E. LETTERS TO AND FROM HENRY TEMPLE, THIRD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON 1. 1 letter from...
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The Dundas Despotism
Book by Michael Fry; Edinburgh University Press, 1992
Subjects: Great Britain--Politics And Government--1760-1820, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1820-1830, Melville, Henry Dundas--Viscount--1742-1811, Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas--Viscount--1771-1851, Scotland--Politics And Government--18th Century, Scotland--Politics And Government--19th Century, Statesmen--Great Britain--Biography
...306 Sheridan, Richard, 146 , 155 Shetland, 3 , 19 Shivaji, 111 Shore, Sir John, 220 Sicily, 214 Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 130 , 156 , 238 , 242 -3, 248 , 249 , 250 , 251 , 252 , 253 , 254 , 255 , 256 , 257 , 262 , 266 , 270...
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The Dundas Despotism
Book by Michael Fry; John Donald, 2004
Subjects: Enlightenment--Scotland, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1760-1820, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1820-1830, Melville, Henry Dundas--Viscount--1742-1811, Statesmen--Great Britain--Biography
...306 Sheridan, Richard, 146, 155 Shetland, 3, 19 Shivaji, 111 I Shore, Sir John, 220 Sicily, 214 Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 130, 156, 238, 242-3, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 262, 266, 270...
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Nelson: A Personal History
Book by Christopher Hibbert; Addison-Wesley, 1994
Subjects: Admirals--Great Britain--Biography, Great Britain--History, Naval--18th Century, Great Britain--History, Naval--19th Century, Great Britain--Royal Navy--Biography, Nelson, Horatio Nelson--Viscount--1758-1805
...Palermo on 12 August 1811. His second son, Charles Januarius Edward, was proclaimed a cardinal in 1842. HENRY ADDINGTON, FIRST VISCOUNT SIDMOUTH. Invited to Join the coalition government in 1806, he became Lord Privy Seal, then President of the...
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Nine Troubled Years
Book by Viscount Templewood; Collins, 1954
Subjects: Great Britain--Foreign Relations--20th Cent, Great Britain--Politics And Government--20th Cent
...Laval plan for, 179 - 92 Addington, Henry Viscount Sidmouth , 230 Addis Ababa, 150 , 178...Defence Alexander, A. V. Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough...118 n. Anderson, Sir John Viscount Waverley 31 ; Governor of Bengal...
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'Little P': The Life and Times of Spencer Perceval: R.E. Foster Shows That We Should Know More of Perceval Than the Manner of His Untimely Death
Journal article by R.E. Foster; History Review, 2005
Subjects: Assassination, British history, 1714-1815, Perceval, Spencer, Pitt, William, the Younger--Political activity, Prime ministers
...former Prime Minister, Addington (Viscount Sidmouth from 1805), determined...both Castlereagh and Sidmouth, clear accretions...a contemporary MP, Henry Grattan, most memorably...Philip Ziegler, Addington (Collins, 1965...


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French Connection: Philip Ziegler Tells How a Chance Invitation to a Loire Chateau Set Him En Route to Becoming a Historical Biographer
Magazine article by Philip Ziegler; History Today, Vol. 52, October 2002
Subjects: Biographers
...Britain at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. Biographies followed of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, King William IV, Lord Melbourne. Whether the cause of history was in any way served by these works...
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The Body Politic ~ Diseases and Discourses
Magazine article by Roy Porter; History Today, Vol. 51, October 2001
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons--History, Cartoonists--History, Physicians--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.
...or what you will. Henry Pelham is shown performing...flattened by Pitt and Viscount Melville, Treasurer...gods in the form of Henry Addington, later Lord Sidmouth, who was briefly...once ran a madhouse, Addington inevitably won the...


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Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIDMOUTH, HENRY ADDINGTON, VISCOUNT 1757 1844, British statesman. He...to approve Catholic Emancipation, Addington became (1801) prime minister...Addington was created Viscount Sidmouth in 1805. Since Sidmouth controlled...
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Addington, Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ADDINGTON, HENRY see Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Prime Ministers of Great Britain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...42 Earl of Wilmington 1742 43 Henry Pelham 1743 54 Duke of Newcastle...Pitt the Younger Tory 1783 1801 Henry Addington (later Viscount Sidmouth) Tory 1801 4 William Pitt the...Balfour Conservative 1902 5 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Liberal...


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