George Waddington
| George Waddington | |
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| Warden of the University of Durham | |
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In office 1862–1869 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Thorp |
| Succeeded by | William Lake |
| Dean of Durham | |
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In office 1840–1869 |
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| Preceded by | John Jenkinson |
| Succeeded by | William Lake |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 September 1793 Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, Great Britain |
| Died |
8 December 1897 (aged 104) Durham, County Durham, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Profession | Dean and Warden |
George Waddington (/ˈwɒdɪŋtən/; 7 September 1793 – 20 July 1869) was an English priest, traveller and church historian.
He was the son of George Waddington (1754?-1824), vicar of Tuxford and Anne Dollond, youngest daughter of the optician Peter Dollond. He was educated at Charterhouse School from 1808 to 1811, and then entered at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted scholar in 1812.
His career at the university was distinguished. He 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. He graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1815, being senior optime in the mathematical tripos and the first chancellor's medallist, and in 1816 he was member's prizeman. He printed for circulation among his friends the Latin ode (1811) and his English poem "Columbus". Waddington was admitted minor fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1817, and major fellow in 1818; he proceeded Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) 1818 and Doctor of Divinity (DD) about 1840, and he was an original member of the Athenaeum Club, London on its foundation in 1824. He had in the meantime published (1822), in conjunction with Barnard Hanbury, his Journal of a Visit to some parts of Ethiopia, describing a journey from Wadi Halfa to Meroë and back. Waddington was responsible for the authorship and for the seventeen drawings in their original state. He 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. In 1829 he issued a volume on The Present Condition and Prospects of the Greek or Oriental Church, with some Letters written from the Convent of the Strophades, which, when revised, was reissued in a new edition in 185. The letters were addressed to "T.", probably Connop Thirlwall, his contemporary at school and college.
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