Viscount Addison, of Stallingborough in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created on 6 July 1945 for the physician and politician Christopher Addison, 1st Baron Addison

Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison

Sir Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison KG, PC was a British medical doctor and politician. By turns a liberal and a socialist, he served as Minister of Munitions during the first World War, and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under...

. He had already been created Baron Addison, of Stallingborough in the County of Lincoln, on 22 May 1937, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. the titles are held by his grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1992 (who in his turn had succeeded his elder brother in 1976).

Viscounts Addison (1945)

• Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
  Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
  Sir Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison KG, PC was a British medical doctor and politician. By turns a liberal and a socialist, he served as Minister of Munitions during the first World War, and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under...
  
   (1869–1951)
• Christopher Addison, 2nd Viscount Addison (1904–1976)
• Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison
  Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison
  Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison was a British peer. The son of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, he succeeded the Viscountcy on the death of his brother, who died with no male heir....
  
   (1914–1992)
• William Matthew Wand Addison, 4th Viscount Addison
  William Addison, 4th Viscount Addison
  William Matthew Wand Addison, 4th Viscount Addison is a British peer. The son of Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison he succeeded the Viscountcy on the death of his father....
  
   (b. 1945)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Paul Wand Addison (b. 1973)