John Waddington (priest)
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John Albert Henry Waddington,[1] MBE, TD (10 February 1910 – 23 November 1994) was the Provost of St Edmundsbury[2] from 1958 to 1976.[3]
He was educated at Wandsworth Grammar School[4] and the London College of Divinity and ordained in 1934.[5] His first ecclesiastical posts were curacies at St Andrew's, Streatham and St Paul's, Furzedown.[6] After this he was Rector of Great Bircham from 1938 to 1945 then Vicar of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich[7] until 1958.
In 1968 Waddington was appointed Grand Chaplain of the Royal Masonic Order.[4]