37 Facts About Christopher Addison

Christopher Addison was a prominent anatomist and perhaps the most eminent doctor ever to enter the Commons.

Christopher Addison was a leader in issues of health, wartime munitions, housing and agriculture.

Christopher Addison worked hard to promote the National Insurance scheme in 1911.

Christopher Addison was born in the rural parish of Hogsthorpe in Lincolnshire, the son of Robert Christopher Addison and Susan, daughter of Charles Fanthorpe.

Christopher Addison's family had owned and run a farm for several generations and he maintained a strong interest in agriculture and rural matters throughout his life.

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Christopher Addison attended Trinity College, Harrogate, from the age of thirteen.

Christopher Addison trained in medicine at Sheffield School of Medicine and St Bartholomew's Hospital in London.

Christopher Addison's education was expensive for his family, and he insisted on re-paying his parents once he had begun his career.

In 1892, Christopher Addison graduated from the University of London as a Bachelor of Medicine and Science with honours in forensic medicine.

Christopher Addison combined private practice with academic research, and taught anatomy at Sheffield School of Medicine.

Christopher Addison published his research on anatomy and became Hunterian professor with the Royal College of Surgeons.

Christopher Addison linked his measurements to an imaginary plane of section, known as "Addison's transpyloric plane".

Christopher Addison was adopted as Liberal candidate for Hoxton, Shoreditch, in 1907, and was duly elected in the January 1910 general election.

Christopher Addison became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions in May 1915.

Christopher Addison introduced a degree of intervention in the free market known as "War Socialism" to prompt faster munitions production.

Christopher Addison became a Privy Counsellor and was promoted to Minister of Munitions when Lloyd George became Minister of War in July 1916.

Christopher Addison worked with Arthur Greenwood to develop programmes for sweeping social reforms.

Christopher Addison became President of the Local Government Board in January 1919, with the goal of transforming it into a Ministry of Health.

Christopher Addison was responsible for a great deal of social legislation, including the first Housing and Town Planning Act, under which the state built low-rent homes for the working-class.

Christopher Addison reviewed and increased the provisions of the National Insurance system, and introduced programmes to improve healthcare and training.

Christopher Addison resigned in July 1921 when a Cabinet committee decided to halt the housing construction scheme altogether; he subsequently became a strong critic of the government.

Christopher Addison stood unsuccessfully as Labour's candidate in the constituency of Hammersmith South for the 1924 general election, before winning the Swindon constituency in Wiltshire, at the 1929 general election.

Christopher Addison served under Noel Buxton, and succeeded him as Minister of Agriculture in June 1930.

Christopher Addison worked with Clement Attlee, the future Leader of the Labour party with whom he formed a close relationship, and was an active member of the Socialist Medical Association.

Christopher Addison voted against these cuts in cabinet and went into Opposition when MacDonald formed a National Government with the Conservatives and Liberals.

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In May 1937, Christopher Addison joined the Labour party's meagre caucus in the House of Lords, being raised to the peerage as Baron Christopher Addison, of Stallingborough in the County of Lincoln.

Christopher Addison was Chairman of the Buckinghamshire War Agricultural Committee during the Second World War, co-ordinating agricultural production and supply in that county.

Attlee appointed Christopher Addison to be Labour's leader in the Lords in 1940, after Lord Snell stepped down for health reasons.

Christopher Addison retained this position until his death, serving as Leader of the House of Lords following Labour's victory in the 1945 general election.

Christopher Addison was created Viscount Addison, of Stallingborough in the County of Lincoln, in July 1945.

Christopher Addison formed a good relationship with the leader of the Conservative opposition in the Lords, the Marquess of Salisbury.

Christopher Addison was Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in Attlee's first cabinet, directing the transformation of the Dominion Affairs Office into the Office of Commonwealth Relations and playing an instrumental role in Labour's early anti-imperialist policies and the strengthening of the British Commonwealth.

Lord Christopher Addison married firstly Isobel, daughter of Archibald Gray, in 1902.

Lord Christopher Addison died in December 1951, aged 82, only two months after the end of his political career.

Christopher Addison was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Christopher.

Christopher Addison wrote an important paper, "On the Topographical Anatomy of the Abdominal Viscera in Man, especially the Gastro-Intestinal Canal", that was published in four parts in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology between 1899 and 1901:.

Christopher Addison cut the first sod for Bristol City Council's new Sea Mills estate on 4 June 1919.