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Henry Addington was born in London on May 30, 1757, the son of a prominent physician, Dr. Anthony Addington. He received his education at Winchester College and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied law. After completing his studies, Addington was admitted to the bar in 1784, and he soon established a successful legal practice.
1 de abr. de 2002 · No modern British Prime Minister has been so thoroughly misunderstood or simply dismissed as Henry Addington. Fedorak demonstrates that, contrary to the views of his opponents and many historians, Addington was an astute and effective Prime Minister. His fall after three years in office was the result of a complex train of circumstances in which questions of personality, both within and ...
4 de mai. de 2021 · The first of these is Henry Addington, a man at the forefront of British politics for more than thirty years, who holds the unusual distinction of having served as both Speaker and Prime Minister. This achievement was all the more remarkable because, in an age when British politics was dominated by aristocratic families, Addington had risen ...
Addington a été perçu un symbole du succès de la classe moyenne, dont il était issu. Bibliographie – Christie, R., Wars and Revolutions: Britain 1760-1815, Edward Arnold, London, 1982 – Ziegler, P., Addington: A life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth, Collins, London, 1965 – The Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Henry Addington
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2. Henry Addington was forced from office in favour of William Pitt the Younger, who had preceded Addington as Prime Minister. 3. Henry Addington is known for his reactionary crackdown on advocates of democratic reforms during a ten-year spell as Home Secretary from 1812 to 1822. 4.
Henry Addington was a prominent participant in national affairs from 1789 to 1824 particularly as Prime Minister of the conservative pro-peace and financial retrenchment government of 1801-1804 and as Home Secretary, 1812-1822, in which position he actively enforced the government's policy against political and economic unrest - the repression of the Luddites and the Peterloo Massacre being ...
