Waddington
Waddington names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Waddington WILLIAM HENRY, a French statesman statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM HENRY, a French statesman statesman; born in Paris, Dec. 11, 1826; was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambrige, and took a classical first-class, with a chancellor's medal, in 1849. He returned to France, and devoted himself to the study of antiquities, extending his journeys to Asia Minor, Syria, and Cyprus. In 1865 he was elected to the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. In February, 1871, he was returned by Aisne to the National Assembly, giving a steady support to Thiers. From 1876 till 1885 he sat as senator for Aisne. He served as minister of Public Instruction in 1873 (for a few days only) and in 1876- 1877 as minister of foreign affairs, plenipotentiary at the Berlin Congress (1878), president of the Council (1879), and was ambassador at London from 1883 to 1893. He died Jan. 13, 1894.
Waddington GEORGE, an Engson of lish educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an Engson of lish educator; born Sept. 7, 1793; 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 vicarage of Martravel he received the sham in Yorkshire. In 1840 he was made dean of Durham, and in the following year warden of Durham University. 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.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were long dead when Collier's compiled these notes in 1921, and the biographical facts still stand as given. What has shifted is what each is remembered for: William Henry Waddington's turn as "plenipotentiary at the Berlin Congress (1878)" is now read chiefly for the bargain struck there, in which France accepted Britain's occupation of Cyprus in return for a free hand in Tunisia, which French troops took in 1881; and his archaeological side, downplayed here, survives in his great collection of Greek coins, which passed to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. The name itself has meanwhile been claimed by a third figure the shelf could not know: the Cambridge-trained biologist C. H. Waddington (1905-1975), who coined the term "epigenetics" in the 1940s and whose ideas underpin a large modern research field.
Written for this edition, 2026.