John Waddington (priest)

The Very Rev John Albert Henry Waddington,[1] MBE, TD, MA(Lambeth) (10 February 1910 - 23 November 1994) was the Provost of St Edmundsbury [2] from 1958 to 1976.[3]

He was educated at the London College of Divinity and ordained in 1934.[4] His first ecclesiastical posts were curacies at St Andrew’s, Streatham and St Paul’s, Furzedown.[5] After this he was Rector of Great Bircham from 1938 to 1945 then Vicar of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich[6] until 1958.

  1. NPG details
  2. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  3. The Pictorial History of St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk by John Albert Henry Waddington, Andover, Pitkin, 1961
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  5. Who was Who 1897-2007. London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  6. Church web-site
Church of England titles
Preceded by
John Lawrence White
Provost of St Edmundsbury
1958 1976
Succeeded by
David Rokeby Maddock


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