Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison

Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison (12 April 1914 – 23 March 1992), was a British civil servant and academic.^[1]

Addison was the second son of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, and his first wife, Isobel Mackinnon Gray. His father, a physician and politician, was created a viscount in 1945. He was educated at Hele's School, Exeter, and Balliol College, Oxford.^[1]

He was in the Civil Service between 1936 and 1965. He served as an intelligence officer in the Second World War between 1941 and 1945 as a Flying Officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was a senior lecturer between 1965 and 1976 in the Polytechnic of Central London, , London. He succeeded in the viscountcy on the death of his brother, who died with no male heir in 1976.^[1]

Lord Addison married Kathleen Wand, daughter of the Right Reverend Sir William Wand, on 22 August 1936, with whom he had the following children:^[1]

• Hon. Eleanor Brigit Addison (b. 11 June 1938)
• Hon. Caroline Ruth Addison (b. 30 July 1942)
• William Matthew Wand Addison, 4th Viscount Addison (b. 13 June 1945)

He died in 1992 and was succeeded by his only son.^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Addison

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