Author: Waddington, Horatio
Biography:
WADDINGTON, Horatio (1799-1867: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 20 Jan. 1799, the son of the Rev. George Waddington (1753-1824), Rector of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, and his wife Anne Dolland (1763-1827), the daughter of the London optician Peter Dolland, who had married in London in 1790 and went on to have at least five children: Louisa , George, Ann, Horatio, Clara. Horatio was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity, Cambridge (Pensioner 1815, MA 1823). He won the Chancellor’s Medal for his poem Wallace (1815). (His brother George [q.v.] had won it two years before.) He proceeded to Lincoln’s Inn, practised as a barrister, and entered government service, eventually becoming Under Secretary of State for the Home Office on 15 May 1848, a post he held for nearly twenty years. He retired on 14 Aug. 1867 due to ill health and received an annual pension of £1500. In the 1851 Census he is recorded as a barrister and head of household at 39 York Place, Marylebone, with his two unmarried sisters Ann and Clara. He died there on 3 Oct. 1867 and was buried at Kensal Green, leaving an estate of around £30,000. His sister Ann died in 1880, leaving £35,000; his sister Clara, a principal beneficiary of all her unmarried siblings’ wills, died in 1890, leaving £65,000. Both sisters died at York Place. In 1870 they gave Cambridge University £3000 to set up the Waddington classical scholarship in their brothers’ memory. (ancestry.co.uk 19 Nov. 2020; BHO [HO 43/111 p.117]; Illustrated London News 12 Oct. 1867; Law Times 12 Oct. 1867, 409, 417, 421; GM Nov. 1867, 687-8) AA