Background
He was born in Manchester the son of an iron founder.
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David Waddington
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By 1836 he was running his own mill. Between the years of 1845-1849 Waddington was Vice-Chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway and Chairman from 1851-1856. He negotiated agreements to work most of the lines (that had been built by this point) in East Anglia creating a network of 565 miles by 1854.
He was responsible for the takeover of the Eastern Union Railway in 1854 where his ability to drive a hard bargain caused the EUR chairman J Cobbold to remark "a strong minority of our Board consider that you have done us”.
His election for the Maldon constituency is interesting in that he was at the time backing the construction of the Witham-Maldon branch line and a significant number of people working on the branch were registered to vote locally and a number of local people were employed on the works but this employment ceased the Tuesday after the election. Locally these men were known as "Waddington"s Guinea Pigs"! A report published after the following election (by which time Waddington was standing in Harwich) was quite damning in its belated assessment of the 1847 election.
Waddington died on 12 October 1863 from bowel cancer and was buried in Enfield.
Membership
15th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Maldon from 1847 to 1852, for Harwich from 1852 to 1856.
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Political Party
Conservative Party