M. WADDINGTON.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOII."] you allow me to correct an. inaccuracy in your article on Ambassadors? M.Waddington was educated, not at Harrow, but at Rugby, under Dr. Arnold and his successor, Dr. Tait. In the school register of 1841, his name is entered as follows : "William Henry Waddington, son of T. Waddington, Esq., of Rouen, France, aged 14, December 11th, 1840." I was in the same house with him, where there was also a cousin of his, Walter Waddington Shirley, afterwards Canon of Christ Church, son of the Bishop of Sodor and Man. Waddington, on leaving Rugby, went to Cambridge, I think to Trinity.
I believe his mother was French, bat, as a boy, he showed no sign of French parentage. The present Lord Derby was his contemporary at Rugby, and the two schoolfellows after- wards met at Berlin as representatives respectively of France and England at the Congress.—I am, Sir, &c., W. S.
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