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{{Short description|British civil servant}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = The Viscount Addison
| office1          = [[List of members of the House of Lords|Member of the House of Lords]]<br/>[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
| term_start1      = 19 November 1976
| term_end1        = 23 March 1992<br/>as a [[hereditary peer]]
| predecessor1     = [[Christopher Addison, 2nd Viscount Addison|The 2nd Viscount Addison]]
| successor1       = [[William Addison, 4th Viscount Addison|The 4th Viscount Addison]]
| birth_date       = 12 April 1914
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1992|3|23|1914|4|12|df=y}}
| party            = 
| alma_mater       = [[Hele's School, Exeter]]<br/> [[Balliol College, Oxford]]
| spouse           = Kathleen Wand
}}
'''Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison''' (12 April 1914 – 23 March 1992), was a British civil servant and academic.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |pages=39–40 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

Addison was the second son of [[Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison]], and his first wife, Isobel Mackinnon Gray. His father, a physician and politician, was created a viscount in 1945. He was educated at [[Hele's School, Exeter]], and [[Balliol College, Oxford]].<ref name="burke"/>

He was in the [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|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 [[University of Westminster|Polytechnic of Central London]], [[School of Management Studies]], London. He succeeded in the viscountcy on the death of his brother, who died with no male heir in 1976.<ref name="burke"/>

Lord Addison married Kathleen Wand, daughter of the [[Right Reverend]] Sir [[William Wand]], on 22 August 1936, with whom he had the following children:<ref name="burke"/>

*Hon. Eleanor Brigit Addison (b. 11 June 1938)
*Hon. Caroline Ruth Addison (b. 30 July 1942)
*[[William Addison, 4th Viscount Addison|William Matthew Wand Addison, 4th Viscount Addison]] (b. 13 June 1945)

He died in 1992 and was succeeded by his only son.<ref name="burke"/>

==Arms==
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|escutcheon = Per chevron Vert and Or in chief a snake embowed head debruised between two garbs of the last and in base an anchor Sable.
|crest = In front of two keys in saltire wards upwards a sword point downwards Or.
|supporters = On either side a Lincolnshire red bull Proper the headstall also Proper charged with a sun in splendour Or.
|motto = Servire Est Vivere (To Serve Is To Live)<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019 |page=1977}}</ref>}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-michael-addison | the Viscount Addison }}

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