biography
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Addison, Christopher, 1st Viscount
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| lived:
| (1869–1951)
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, E England, UK. He qualified in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and became professor of anatomy at Sheffield University. Liberal MP for Hoxton (1910–22), he was parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education (1914), minister of munitions (1916), and Britain's first minister of health (1919). He resigned in 1921 and joined the Labour Party. Elected MP for Swindon, he was made minister of agriculture in 1929. Created a baron in 1937, he assumed leadership of the Labour peers in 1940, becoming Leader of the House of Lords in 1945. |
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