Samuel Waddington

Samuel Waddington (1844 – 7 November 1923) was a British civil servant, traveller and poet.

Life

He was the second son of Thomas Waddington of Boston Spa, Yorkshire. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1862, graduating B.A. in 1865.[1]

Waddington worked in the marine department of the Board of Trade.[2] He died in Kilburn on 7 November 1923.[3] He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.[4]

Works

• English Sonnets by Living Writers (1881)[5]
• Arthur Hugh Clough: A Monograph (1883)[4]
• Collected Poems (1902)[6]
• Chapters of My Life (1909) autobiography[5]

Waddington wrote for periodicals including The Academy, the Athenaeum, and the Pall Mall Gazette.[6]

References

1. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Waddington, Samuel
2. Banerji, Nilanjana. "Dobson, (Henry) Austin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32845. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. "Was Biographer and Anthologist". The Gazette. London. 1 December 1923. p. 19. Retrieved 30 December 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
4. Paths of Glory. Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery. 1997. p. 102.
5. William Morris (14 July 2014). The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I: 1848-1880. Princeton University Press. p. 574 note 1. ISBN 978-1-4008-5618-3.
6. Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Sir Hall Caine (1 April 2000). Dear Mr Rossetti: The Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Hall Caine 1878-1881. A&C Black. p. 288 note 80. ISBN 978-1-84127-050-0.