Background
Addison was the second son of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
Addison was the second son of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
Balliol College.
He was in the Civil Service between 1936 and 1965. He served as an intelligence officer in the Second World War between 1941 and 1945 as a Flying Officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was a senior lecturer between 1965 and 1976 in the Polytechnic of Central London, School of Management Studies, London.
Lord Addison married Kathleen Wand, daughter of the Right Reverend William Wand, on 22 August 1936, with whom he had the following children:
Eleanor Brigit Addison (b 11 June 1938)
Honorary
Caroline Ruth Addison (b 30 July 1942)
William Matthew Wand Addison, 4th Viscount Addison (b 13 June 1945).