Home › W › Waddington (GEORGE an English educator)

Waddington (GEORGE an English educator)

GEORGE, an English educator; born Sept. 7, 1793; son of Rev. George Waddington, vicar of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire. A brilliant university career Cambridge warded by a fellowship in Trinity College; and after several years of foreign travel he received the vicarage of Marsham in Yorkshire. In 1840 he was made dean of Durham, and in the following year warden of Durham University. WADE His chief works are: "Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia" (1822); "A Visit to Greece in 1823 and 1824" (1825); "Present Prospects of the Greek or Oriental Church" (1829); "History of the Church from the Earliest Ages to the Reformation" (13 vols. 1835); "History of the Reformation on the Continent" (3 vols. 1843). He died July 20, 1869.