William Henry WADDINGTON

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Sciences - Other, French Minister and Secretary of state (before French Fifth Republic)

FrenchBorn William Henry WADDINGTON

French statesman who was Prime Minister of France in 1879

Born on December 11, 1826 in Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, France , France

Died on January 13, 1894 in Paris, France

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Waddington was born at Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre (Eure-et-Loir), the son of a wealthy Englishman, who had established a large spinning factory in France and had been naturalised as a French subject, and his French wife. After receiving his early education in Paris, Waddington was sent to Rugby School, and then to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was second classic and won the chancellor's medal. He rowed in the victorious Cambridge eight in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on the River Thames in March 1849. He did not take part in the re-row in December that year which Oxford won. ...   Waddington was born at Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre (Eure-et-Loir), the son of a wealthy Englishman, who had established a large spinning factory in France and had been naturalised as a French subject, and his French wife. After receiving his early education in Paris, Waddington was sent to Rugby School, and then to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was second classic and won the chancellor's medal. He rowed in the victorious Cambridge eight in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on the River Thames in March 1849. He did not take part in the re-row in December that year which Oxford won.



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