Henry Unwin Addington
Henry Unwin Addington (24 March 1790 – 6 March 1870)[1] was a British diplomat and civil servant.
Background
Born at
Foreign Office in 1807.[2]
Career
Addington was attached to the diplomatic mission to Sicily under William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst in 1809 and took part in the negotiations between Spain and his colonies in 1812.[2] He was transferred to Berlin in April 1813 and to Stockholm in September.[2] In the next year he was appointed Secretary of Legation to Switzerland, an office he held until 1818.[3] He executed this position again in Copenhagen in 1821, however became chargé d'affaires in Washington already a year later.[3]
Addington was promoted to plenipotentiary in
Privy Council of the United Kingdom.[1]
Family
On 17 November 1836, he married Eleanor Anne Estcourt, eldest daughter of
Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt at St George's, Hanover Square.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Privy Council of the United Kingdom". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c d e f Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 84.
- ^ a b c "German Historical Institute London, Official Website - Henry Unwin Addington". Retrieved 4 July 2009.
- ^ Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 176.
- ^ Dodsley, James (1837). The Annual Register. London: Baldwin & Cradock. p. 174.
Literature
- Oliver Werner, Privater Eindruck und öffentliche Politik. Der britische Diplomat Henry Unwin Addington in Deutschland, 1813/14 und 1828/29. In: Uwe Ziegler/Horst Carl (ed.), "In unserer Liebe nicht glücklich." Kultureller Austausch zwischen Großbritannien und Deutschland 1770–1840, Goettingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 2014, p. 143-158.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
