Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison

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Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison (12 April 1914 – 23 March 1992) was a British civil servant and academic. He was the second son of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, whose title was created in 1945. He was educated at Hele's School in Exeter and Balliol College, Oxford. He worked in the British Civil Service from 1936 to 1965 and served as an intelligence officer in World War II (1941–1945) as a Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. After the war, he was a senior lecturer at the Polytechnic of Central London, School of Management Studies, from 1965 to 1976. He became the 3rd Viscount Addison in 1976 after his brother, the 2nd Viscount Addison, died without a male heir, and he sat in the House of Lords as a hereditary peer from 1976 to 1992. He married Kathleen Wand, daughter of Sir William Wand, on 22 August 1936, and they had a son. He died in 1992 and was succeeded by his only son.