Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison KG PC FRCS was a British medical doctor and politician. By turns a liberal and a socialist, he served as Minister of Munitions during the First World War, and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under Clement Attlee.
Addison was born in the rural parish of Hogsthorpe in Lincolnshire, the son of Robert Addison and Susan, daughter of Charles Fanthorpe. His family had owned and run a farm for several generations and he maintained a strong interest in agriculture and rural matters throughout his life. He attended Trinity College, Harrogate, from the age of thirteen. He trained in medicine at Sheffield School of Medicine and St Bartholomews Hospital in London. His education was expensive for his family, and he insisted on repaying his parents once he had begun his career.
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