
What is recorded here
This commemorative plaque records: This market cross was erected by Henry Viscount Sidmouth as a memorial of his grateful attachment to the borough of Devizes of which he has been Recorder thirty years and of which he was six times unanimously chosen as representative in Parliament. Anno Domini 1814
Rt Hon. Viscount Henry Addington PC served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804 and is remembered for his role in negotiating the Peace of Amiens with Napoleon Bonaparte.
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