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Waddington was born in Leeds in Yorkshire on 10 December 1810, to George and Elizabeth Waddington.
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At the age of fifteen he began to preach in the cottages of the neighbours. Before he was 19 he preached for Airedale College, the demand for student-preachers being greater than the supply. At Stockport he introduced Sunday schools connected with the congregationalist churches.
He also conducted a government enquiry into distress and poverty in the town, the results of which were published in a blue-book
He found it in financial difficulties, which at one time threatened to disperse the congregation, but which he eventually overcame. In May 1864, with the support of leading congregationalists such as Thomas Binney and Samuel Morley a new building, under the name The Pilgrim Church. was opened in Buckenham Square.
Erected as a memorial to the Pilgrim Fathers, several of whom were claimed for the congregation. Waddington died on 24 September 1880.
He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Williamstown, United States.A.
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