Christopher Addison, Ist Viscount Addison

Christopher Addison, Ist Viscount Addison (born June 19, 1869, Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England—died December 11, 1951, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) was a British surgeon and statesman who was prominent in both Liberal and Labour governments between the wars and after World War II. Addison was educated at Trinity College, Harrogate, Yorkshire, and at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London. He became an anatomy lecturer at St. Bartholomew’s, professor of anatomy at University College, Sheffield, and, in 1901,...