Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Viscount Addison | |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start1: | 23 March 1992 |
Term End1: | 11 November 1999 as a hereditary peer |
Predecessor1: | The 3rd Viscount Addison |
Successor1: | Seat abolished |
Birth Date: | 12 June 1945 |
Alma Mater: | Westminster School King's School, Bruton |
Spouse: | Joanna Mary Dickinson Lesley Ann Mawer |
William Matthew Wand Addison, 4th Viscount Addison (born 13 June 1945) is a British peer. The son of Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison, he succeeded the Viscountcy on the death of his father in 1992.
He was educated at Westminster School and King's School, Bruton.[1]
In the House of Lords, Viscount Addison had sat as a Conservative peer until the House of Lords Act 1999 removed his automatic right to sit in the House. He stood for election as an elected hereditary peer (and therefore possessing the right to continue to sit). However, he finished 47th amongst the Conservative peers[2] (a total of 42 Conservative peers were elected). He has stood in subsequent by-elections for election to the House, but to date has been unsuccessful.
On 10 October 1970, he married Joanna Mary Dickinson, with whom he had the following children:
In 1991, he married Lesley Ann Mawer.
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. |
Crest: | In front of two keys in saltire wards upwards a sword point downwards Or. |
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)[3] |