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Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

1757 - 1844

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth has received more than 324,300 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth is the 9,739th most popular politician (up from 10,486th in 2019), the 1,979th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,259th in 2019) and the 305th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth ranks 9,739 out of 19,576. Before him are Karl Verner, Pietro Mocenigo, Josef Klaus, Alara of Nubia, Jean-Jacques Honorat, and Lord Guildford Dudley. After him are Aeropus I of Macedon, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, August Heissmeyer, Commius, Theodoros Pangalos, and Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth ranks 25. Before him are Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, and Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. After him are Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Robert Smith, Maria Anna of Savoy, Duchess of Chablais, and Albrecht Wilhelm Roth. Among people deceased in 1844, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth ranks 28. Before him are Francis Baily, Adolphe Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Jacques Laffitte, Gustav Hugo, and William Beckford. After him are Yevgeny Baratynsky, Alexander von Benckendorff, Vincenzo Camuccini, Henri-Montan Berton, Jacob Aall, and Johannes van den Bosch.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth ranks 1,979 out of 8,785. Before him are Ralph Erskine (1914), Tommy Taylor (1932), Graham Bonnet (1947), Augustus Pugin (1812), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), and Lord Guildford Dudley (1536). After him are Roger Hodgson (1950), Cynewulf of Wessex (750), Edith Pargeter (1913), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), Herbert Read (1893), and Francis Rossi (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth ranks 305. Before him are Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516), John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859), Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751), and Lord Guildford Dudley (1536). After him are Cynewulf of Wessex (750), Randolph Churchill (1911), Joe Davis (1901), Æthelbald of Mercia (700), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847), and Sadiq Khan (1970).

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