Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804
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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
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[a]
In office 1 January 1801 – 10 February 1801
Monarch
George III
Prime Minister
William Pitt
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
Monarch
George III
Prime Minister
William Pitt
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
(1757-05-30)30 May 1757 Holborn, Middlesex, England
Died
15 February 1844(1844-02-15) (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, Addington resumed the war without allies. He 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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the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1804, succeeding HenryAddington as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. His...
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