George Waddington was an English priest, traveller and church historian.
17 Facts About George Waddington
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George Waddington was the son of George Waddington, vicar of Tuxford and Anne Dollond, youngest daughter of the optician Peter Dollond.
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George Waddington was educated at Charterhouse School from 1808 to 1811, and then entered at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted scholar in 1812.
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George Waddington was Browne medallist for the Latin ode in 1811, and for epigrams in 1814, Davies's university scholar in 1813, and chancellor's English medallist in 1813.
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George Waddington graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1815, being senior optime in the mathematical tripos and the first chancellor's medallist, and in 1816 he was member's prizeman.
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George Waddington printed for circulation among his friends the Latin ode and his English poem "Columbus".
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George Waddington was an original member of the Athenaeum Club, London on its foundation in 1824.
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George Waddington had in the meantime published, in conjunction with Barnard Hanbury, his Journal of a Visit to some parts of Ethiopia, describing a journey from Wadi Halfa to Meroe and back.
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George Waddington was responsible for the authorship and for the seventeen drawings in their original state.
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George Waddington next brought out in 1825 a discriminating and impartial account of A Visit to Greece in 1823 and 1824, which passed into a second edition and in the same year.
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About 1826, George Waddington was ordained in the Church of England, and in December 1827 he preached the sermon in the chapel of Trinity College on Commemoration day.
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George Waddington was presented by Trinity College to the perpetual curacy of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, on 1 February 1833, and on 17 June 1834 was presented by Trinity to the vicarage of Masham and Kirkby-Malzeard in Yorkshire, being appointed on 1 October in that year commissary and official of the prebend of Masham.
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George Waddington preached his farewell sermon at Masham on 27 December 1840.
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George Waddington was installed in the deanery of Durham on 25 September 1840, and became warden of Durham University in 1862.
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George Waddington died at Durham on 20 July 1869 and was buried on the north side of the cathedral yard.
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In 1870, in memory of him and of his brother Horatio George Waddington who had died in 1867, his sisters founded the George Waddington classical scholarship at Cambridge.
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The best-known works of George Waddington are those on ecclesiastical history.