Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth was born on May 30, 1757. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (30 May 1757 – 15 February 1844) was a British Tory statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804 and as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1789 to 1801. 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…