Viscount Sidmouth
Viscount Sidmouth,ofSidmouthin theCounty of Devon,is a title in thePeerage of the United Kingdom.It was created on 12 January 1805 for the formerprime minister,Henry Addington.[2]In May 1804,King George IIIintended to confer the titles ofEarl of Banbury,Viscount Wallingford and Baron Reading on Addington (an earldom was the customary retirement honour for a former prime minister). However, Addington refused the honour and chose to remain in theHouse of Commonsuntil 1805, when he joinedWilliam Pitt the Younger's government asLord President of the Councilwith the lesser title of Viscount Sidmouth. His grandson, the third viscount, briefly representedDevizesin Parliament. The current holder of the title is the latter's great-great-grandson, the eighth viscount, who succeeded his father in 2005.
Anthony Addington,father of the first viscount, was a distinguished physician.Henry Unwin Addington,nephew of the first viscount, was a diplomat and civil servant.
The family seat now isHighway Manor(nearCalne,Wiltshire) which was inherited in 1936.[3]The former ancestral seat was Upottery Manor, nearUpottery,Devon.
Viscounts Sidmouth (1805)[edit]
- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth(1757–1844)
- William Leonard Addington, 2nd Viscount Sidmouth(1794–1864)
- William Wells Addington, 3rd Viscount Sidmouth(1824–1913)
- Gerald Anthony Pellew Bagnall Addington, 4th Viscount Sidmouth(1854–1915)
- Gerald William Addington, 5th Viscount Sidmouth(1882–1953)
- Raymond Anthony Addington, 6th Viscount Sidmouth(1887–1976)
- John Tonge Anthony Pellew Addington, 7th Viscount Sidmouth(1914–2005)
- Jeremy Francis Addington, 8th Viscount Sidmouth(b. 1947)
Theheir apparentis the present holder's son, the Hon. John Addington (b. 1990).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors).Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage(1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages[self-published source][better source needed]
- Notes
- ^Kidd, Charles, Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.P1132
- ^"No. 15770".The London Gazette.12 January 1805. p. 46.
- ^Pugh, R.B.; Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1953)."Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 7 pp197-198 – Parishes: Highway".British History Online.University of London.Retrieved1 April2017.
External links[edit]
- Hansard1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by John Tonge Anthony Pellew Addington, 7th Viscount Sidmouth
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