Henry Addington
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Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth 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.
Portrait of Henry Addington by William Beechey, c. 1803
Portrait of Henry Addington by John Singleton Copley, 1798. He is shown in his robes as Speaker.
In Britannia between Death and the Doctor's (1804), James Gillray caricatures William Pitt the Younger as a doctor kicking the previous doctor, Addington (who in reality was the son of a doctor), out of Britannia's sickroom. In doing this, Pitt is treading on the face of Charles James Fox. Napoleon is on the right.
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William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville was a British Pittite Tory politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration o
Henry Addington
…Parliament. By May 1804, partisan criticism of Addington's war policies provided the pretext for a parliamentary putsch by the three major factions (Grenvillites, Foxites, and Pittites), who had decided that they should replace Addington's ministry. Addington's greatest failing was his inability to manage a…
Portrait of Lord Grenville by John Hoppner, c. 1800
Lord Grenville by Gainsborough Dupont, c. 1790
Lord Grenville as Chancellor of Oxford, by William Owen, c. 1809-25
A caricature of Saartjie Baartman, Lord Grenville, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan by William Heath