About Henry Unwin Addington
Lived 1790 – 1870 (aged 79). Henry Unwin Addington was a British diplomat.
Henry Unwin Addington (24 March 1790 – 6 March 1870)
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. In the following year he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to Spain. In 1854, he retired and was sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
Family On 17 November 1836, he married Eleanor Anne Estcourt, eldest daughter of Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt at St George's, Hanover Square.
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Diplomat, civil servant (1790-1870)
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Henry Unwin Addington was born on 24 March 1790.
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Henry Unwin Addington died on 6 March 1870.
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Henry Unwin Addington was British.
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