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Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison

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The Viscount Addison
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
19 November 1976 – 23 March 1992
as a hereditary peer
Preceded byThe 2nd Viscount Addison
Succeeded byThe 4th Viscount Addison
Personal details
Born12 April 1914
Died23 March 1992(1992-03-23) (aged 77)
SpouseKathleen Wand
Alma materHele's School, Exeter
Balliol College, Oxford

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, School of Management Studies, 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]

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

Arms

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Coat of arms of Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison
Crest
In front of two keys in saltire wards upwards a sword point downwards Or.
Escutcheon
Per chevron Vert and Or in chief a snake embowed head debruised between two garbs of the last and in base an anchor Sable.
Supporters
On either side a Lincolnshire red bull Proper the headstall also Proper charged with a sun in splendour Or.
Motto
Servire Est Vivere (To Serve Is To Live)[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 39–40. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 1977.
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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Addison
1976–1992
Member of the House of Lords
(1976–1992)
Succeeded by