Henry Addington

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Sidmouth
PC
The Right Honourable The Viscount Sidmouth PC
	Portrait by William Beechey, c. 1803
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
	In office; 17 March 1801 – 10 May 1804
Monarch	George III
Preceded by	William Pitt the Younger
Succeeded by	William Pitt the Younger
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Home Secretary
	In office; 11 June 1812 – 17 January 1822
Prime Minister	The Earl of Liverpool
Preceded by	Richard Ryder
Succeeded by	Robert Peel
Lord President of the Council
	In office; 8 April 1812 – 11 June 1812
Prime Minister	Spencer Perceval; The Earl of Liverpool;
Preceded by	The Earl Camden
Succeeded by	The Earl of Harrowby
	In office; 8 October 1806 – 26 March 1807
Prime Minister	The Lord Grenville
Preceded by	The Earl Fitzwilliam
Succeeded by	The Earl Camden
	In office; 14 January 1805 – 10 July 1805
Prime Minister	William Pitt the Younger
Preceded by	The Duke of Portland
Succeeded by	The Earl Camden
Lord Privy Seal
	In office; 5 February 1806 – 15 October 1806
Prime Minister	The Lord Grenville
Preceded by	The Earl of Westmorland
Succeeded by	The Lord Holland
Chancellor of the Exchequer
	In office; 14 March 1801 – 10 May 1804
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	William Pitt the Younger
Succeeded by	William Pitt the Younger
Leader of the House of Commons
	In office; 17 March 1801 – 10 May 1804
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	William Pitt the Younger
Succeeded by	William Pitt the Younger
Speaker of the House of Commons; of the United Kingdom
	In office; 1 January 1801 – 10 February 1801
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Sir John Mitford
Speaker of the House of Commons; of Great Britain
	In office; 8 June 1789 – 31 January 1800
Preceded by	William Grenville
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Member of Parliament; for Devizes
	In office; 1784–1805
Preceded by	Henry Jones
Succeeded by	Thomas Grimston Estcourt
Personal details
Born	30 May 1757; Holborn, Middlesex, England
Died	15 February 1844 (aged 86); White Lodge, Surrey, England
Resting place	St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake
Political party	Tory (Addingtonian)
Spouses	; Ursula Hammond (m. 1781; died 1811) Marianne Townsend; (m. 1823)
Children	8 (by Hammond)
Parent	Anthony Addington (father)
Relatives	John Hiley Addington (brother); Henry Unwin Addington (nephew);
Education	Cheam School; Reading School; Winchester College;
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford
Cabinet	§ Cabinet
Signature
	Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from the Act of Union in January 1801.;

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, PC (30 May 1757 – 15 February 1844) was a British Tory statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804.

Addington 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 relatively weak defensive hostilities, 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 reactionary crackdown on advocates of democratic reforms 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.

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[1] Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from the Act of Union in January 1801.