Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison

British politician

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1869

Place of Birth: Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Dec-1951

Profession: physician, politician, university teacher, anatomist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison

  • Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, (19 June 1869 – 11 December 1951) was a British medical doctor and politician.
  • By turns a member of the Liberal and Labour parties, 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. He was a prominent anatomist, and perhaps the most eminent doctor ever to enter the Commons.
  • He was a leader in issues of health, wartime munitions, housing and agriculture.
  • Although not highly visible, he played a major role in the postwar governments that followed both world wars.
  • Addison worked hard to promote the National Insurance scheme in 1911.
  • Lloyd George made him the first Minister of Health during the wartime coalition, and Addison started up the first programme of publicly funded local authority housing schemes with the Housing, Town Planning, &c.
  • Act 1919.
  • He later joined the Labour Party,

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