page_title: Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
caption_attribution_description: English: Garter-encircled coat of arms of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, KG, as displayed on his Order of the Garter stall plate in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
context_page_description: Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, KG, PC, FRCS was a British medical doctor and politician. By turns a member of the Liberal and Labour parties, 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 Clement Attlee.
  He was a prominent anatomist, and perhaps the most eminent doctor ever to enter the Commons. He was a leader in issues of health, wartime munitions, housing and agriculture. Although not highly visible, he played a major role in the postwar governments that followed both world wars. Addison worked hard to promote the National Insurance scheme in 1911. Lloyd George made him the first Minister of Health during the wartime coalition, and Addison started up the first programme of publicly funded local authority housing schemes with the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919. He later joined the Labour Party,
context_section_description: Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, KG, PC, FRCS (19 June 1869 – 11 December 1951) was a British medical doctor and politician. By turns a member of the Liberal and Labour parties, 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 Clement Attlee.
  He was a prominent anatomist, and perhaps the most eminent doctor ever to enter the Commons. He was a leader in issues of health, wartime munitions, housing  and agriculture. Although not highly visible, he played a major role in the postwar governments that followed both world wars. Addison worked hard to promote the National Insurance scheme in 1911. Lloyd George made him the first Minister of Health during the wartime coalition, and Addison started up the first programme of publicly funded local authority housing schemes with the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919. He later joined the Labour Party,
caption: Garter-encircled coat of arms of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, KG, as displayed on his Order of the Garter stall plate in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
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