Lord Sidmouth

British Tory statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804.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 father’s position, Addington was a childhood friend of William Pitt the Younger. Addington studied at Reading School, Winchester, and Brasenose College, Oxford, and then studied law at Lincoln’s Inn. He married Ursula Mary Hammond in 1781; she brought an income of £1,000 a year into the marriage. In 1802, Addington accepted an honorary position as vice-president for life on the Court of Governors of London’s Foundling Hospital for abandoned babies.