Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison

Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison (12 April 1914 – 23 March 1992), was a British civil servant and academic.
Addison was the second son of <a href="/facts/Christopher_Addison%2c_1st_Viscount_Addison/v60MCpGe">Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison</a>, and his first wife, Isobel Mackinnon Gray. His father, a physician and politician, was created a viscount in 1945. He was educated at <a href="/facts/Hele%2527s_School%2c_Exeter/4r5ttPWf">Hele's School, Exeter</a>, and <a href="/facts/Balliol_College%2c_Oxford/Hlazbx7N">Balliol College, Oxford</a>.
He was in the <a href="/facts/Civil_Service_(United_Kingdom)/uFCe99sa">Civil Service</a> between 1936 and 1965. He served as an intelligence officer in the Second World War between 1941 and 1945 as a <a href="/facts/Flying_Officer/PY3qDA8X">Flying Officer</a> with the <a href="/facts/Royal_Air_Force_Volunteer_Reserve/qtor1lWv">Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve</a>. He was a senior lecturer between 1965 and 1976 in the <a href="/facts/University_of_Westminster/8MYBHpNp">Polytechnic of Central London</a>, <a href="/facts/School_of_Management_Studies/9R5r4dQG">School of Management Studies</a>, London. He succeeded in the viscountcy on the death of his brother, who died with no male heir in 1976.
Lord Addison married Kathleen Wand, daughter of the <a href="/facts/Right_Reverend/PrDaQgqo">Right Reverend</a> Sir <a href="/facts/William_Wand/ptPeQSFG">William Wand</a>, on 22 August 1936, with whom he had the following children:

<ul><li>Hon. Eleanor Brigit Addison (b. 11 June 1938)</li>
<li>Hon. Caroline Ruth Addison (b. 30 July 1942)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/William_Addison%2c_4th_Viscount_Addison/PmS3L5QW">William Matthew Wand Addison, 4th Viscount Addison</a> (b. 13 June 1945)</li></ul>
He died in 1992 and was succeeded by his only son.

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