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Addington (surname)
Addington is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anthony Addington (1713–1790), English physician and writer * Crandell Addington (born 1938), American poker player, one of the founders of the World Series of Poker * David Addington (born 1957), American lawyer, formerly chief of staff to Dick Cheney * Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804 * Henry Unwin Addington (1790–1870), British diplomat and civil servant * Isaac Addington (1645–1719), functionary of various colonial governments of Massachusetts * John Hiley Addington (1759–1818), British politician * Stephen Addington (1729–1796), English dissenting clergyman and teacher * Steve Addington (born 1964), American NASCAR crew chief * Tom Addington (1919–2011), British Army soldier * Tucker Addington (born 1997), American football player * William Addington, 3rd Viscount Sidmouth William Wells Addington, 3rd Viscount Sidmouth JP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Addington
Anthony Addington (1713 – 22 March 1790) was an English physician. Life Born in Twyford, Addington was educated at Winchester College. He went up to Trinity College, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. on 13 May 1740 and of M.D. on 24 January 1744. He was subsequently admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians, and went into practice in London, but was compelled by bad health to move to the country. His career gained considerable public attention when he appeared as an expert for the prosecution of Mary Blandy for the poisoning of her father Francis Blandy in 1752. He then retired to Reading in Berkshire, where he derived a large income from his profession, until his death in 1790. He devoted his attention particularly to the treatment of insanity, and was one of the physicians called in to see George III when he first showed symptoms of mental aberration. Addington was a confidential friend and adviser of Lord Chatham. He took part in unsuccessful negotiations of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crandell Addington
Crandell Addington (born June 2, 1938, in Graham, Texas) is an entrepreneur and poker player who is best known as one of the founders of the World Series of Poker, and is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame. Poker Known as "Dandy" because he was always well-dressed, Addington was a regular player in the Texas poker circuit in the 1960s. In 1969, he won the Texas Gamblers Convention in Reno, Nevada, Reno, Nevada; it was there that the idea for the World Series of Poker was conceived. At the time, Addington was already a self-made millionaire who played poker primarily for fun; for him, the game was more about personal challenge. Addington participated in the first 1970 World Series of Poker, World Series of Poker in 1970 along with Amarillo Slim, Doyle Brunson, Sailor Roberts, Puggy Pearson, and Carl Cannon (poker player), Carl Cannon. Addington made the final table of the WSOP Main Event almost every year from 1972 to 1979, and still holds the record for most final table appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Addington
David Spears Addington (born January 22, 1957) is an American lawyer who was legal counsel (2001–2005) and chief of staff (2005–2009) to Vice President Dick Cheney. He was the vice president of domestic and economic policy studies at the Heritage Foundation from 2010 to 2016. During 21 years of federal service, Addington worked at the CIA, the Reagan White House, the Department of Defense, four congressional committees, and the Office of the Vice President. He was appointed to replace I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. as Cheney's chief of staff upon Libby's resignation when Libby was indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice on October 28, 2005. Addington was described by '' U.S. News & World Report'' as "the most powerful man you've never heard of" in May 2006. Early life and education Addington was born in Washington, D.C., and is the first son of Eleanore "Billie" (Flaherty) and the late Jerry Spears Addington, a retired brigadier general and West Point graduat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (30 May 175715 February 1844) was an English Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804. Addington is best known for obtaining the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, an unfavourable peace with Napoleonic France which marked the end of the Second Coalition during the French Revolutionary Wars. When that treaty broke down he resumed the war, but he was without allies and conducted relatively weak defensive hostilities, ahead of what would become the War of the Third Coalition. He was forced from office in favour of William Pitt the Younger, who had preceded Addington as Prime Minister. Addington is also known for his reactionary crackdown on advocates of democratic reforms during a ten-year spell as Home Secretary from 1812 to 1822. He is the longest continuously serving holder of that office since it was created in 1782. Family Henry Addington was the son of Anthony Addington, Pitt the Elder's physician; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Unwin Addington
Henry Unwin Addington (24 March 1790 – 6 March 1870) was a British diplomat and civil servant. Background Born at Blounts Court, he was the second son of John Hiley Addington, brother of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, and his wife Mary, daughter of Henry Unwin. He was educated at Winchester School and entered the Foreign Office in 1807. Career Addington was attached to the diplomatic mission to Sicily under William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst in 1809 and took part in the negotiations between Spain and his colonies in 1812. He was transferred to Berlin in April 1813 and to Stockholm in September. In the next year he was appointed Secretary of Legation to Switzerland, an office he held until 1818. He executed this position again in Copenhagen in 1821, however became chargé d'affaires in Washington already a year later. Addington was promoted to plenipotentiary in London for negotiations with the United States of America in 1826, and was moved to Frankfurt am Main as Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Addington
Isaac Addington (January 22, 1645 – March 19, 1719) was a longtime functionary of various colonial governments of Massachusetts, including a brief period as the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, the highest court in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Biography Addington was born in Boston, the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to Isaac and Anne Addington. He attended Harvard College for two years (1658–59), but did not graduate. He was apparently trained further in medicine, for he styled himself for many years as a chirurgeon, even while occupying public offices. Career In 1672 he was given a temporary appointment as the Suffolk County register of deeds, which was made permanent the following year. He would fill this role until 1690, except during the period of the Dominion of New England, 1686-89. In 1685 he was elected to the colonial assembly, and the following year he was chosen to sit on the court of assistants (a body that served as the assembl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hiley Addington
John Hiley Addington (August 1759 – 11 June 1818) was a British Tory party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1787 and 1818. Background and education Addington was the second son of Anthony Addington and his wife Mary, daughter of Haviland John Hiley.Lodge (1859), p. 450 His older brother was Henry Addington, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and under whose lifelong influence and patronisation he was. He was educated at Cheam School and then at Winchester College.The Annual Obituary (1819), p. 361 Addington studied in Ealing until 1776 and afterwards at Brasenose College, Oxford. Political career Addington entered the British House of Commons in 1787, having been elected for Truro.Thorne (1986), p. 47 He represented the constituency until 1790 and after a break of four years was returned to Parliament for Winchelsea until 1796. In the following general election Addington stood successfully for Wendover. He held t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Addington
Stephen Addington D.D. (9 June 1729, in Northampton, England – 6 February 1796, in Minories) was a scholarly English dissenting clergyman and teacher. Life He was born at Northampton, June 9, 1729, and was educated under Dr. Philip Doddridge, whose manner in the pulpit he closely followed for many years. After being admitted to preach, he removed in 1750, to Spaldwick in Huntingdonshire; where, in 1752, he married Miss Reymes of Norwich, a lady who died in 1811, at an advanced age. A few weeks after his marriage, he was called to be minister of a congregation of dissenters at Market Harborough, Leicestershire. His receiving this appointment was owing to a singular occurrence in the history of popular elections. Two candidates had appeared who divided the congregation so equally that a compromise was impossible, unless by each party giving up their favourite, and electing a third candidate, if one could be found agreeable to all. At this crisis Mr. Addington was recommended, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Addington
Steven J. Addington (born July 4, 1964) is an American NASCAR crew chief who works for RSS Racing as a crew chief in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In 2023, he is primarily crew chiefing their No. 38 Ford Mustang driven by Joe Graf Jr. (although the car was instead driven by Ryan Sieg at Daytona in February and he instead crew chiefed the team's No. 28 Ford Mustang driven by Alex Labbé at Fontana and Las Vegas in March). He has won 20 NASCAR Cup Series races and 11 Xfinity Series races as a crew chief. Addington started his crew chiefing career in 1993 in the Xfinity Series when it was known as the NASCAR Busch Series for Jason Keller's own team, KEL Racing. In 1997, he left for Billy Ballew Motorsports in the Truck Series and came back to Keller's No. 57 car in 1999, now owned by Progressive Motorsports/ppc Racing. In 2004, he became a crew chief for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Busch Series and the Cup Series. He worked as a Cup Series crew chief for Team Penske in 2010 and 2011, Stewar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Addington
Raymond Thomas Casamajor Addington (27 January 1919 – 28 October 2011) was a British Army soldier who won the Military Cross in the Netherlands in 1944/45 for his bravery as a battery captain with the 13th Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), Royal Horse Artillery (RHA).Major Tom Addington . '''', 1 December 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2015. Addington was the third son of Raymond Anthony Addington ( 6th Viscount Sidmouth 1887–1976). He was born in |
Tucker Addington
Tucker Addington (born July 16, 1997) is an American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ... long snapper for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Sam Houston State Bearkats football, Sam Houston State and spent two years out of football before being selected in the 2022 USFL draft by the Houston Gamblers (2020s), Houston Gamblers, where he played one season. Addington has also been a member of the Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars. Early life and education Addington was born on July 16, 1997, in New Braunfels, Texas. He attended Canyon High School (Canyon, Texas), Canyon High School, playing two years as a starter on the American football, football team and recording 137 all- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
