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.
Anthony Addington was an English physician.
Henry Addington
…Secretary from 1812 to 1822. He is the longest continuously serving holder of that office since it was created in 1782. Henry Addington was the son of Anthony Addington, Pitt the Elder's physician; and Mary Addington, the daughter of the Rev. Haviland John Hiley, headmaster of Reading School. As a consequence of his…
Dr Anthony Addington by Thomas Banks, 1790, Victoria and Albert Museum