Samuel Danks Waddy (27 June 1830 – 30 December 1902) was an English

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. He was born in

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, the son of Samuel Dousland Waddy, a

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minister. The family soon moved to Sheffield and his father was instrumental in the founding of Wesley College in 1838 (and was Governor of the school from 1844 to 1862). Samuel Danks Waddy attended Wesley College himself and was the first pupil to be registered in 1838. He graduated with a BA from

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in 1850, and was

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at the

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in 1858. He became a

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(KC) in 1874, and became a bencher of his Inn two years later. Waddy was elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for

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on 3 February 1874 but resigned this seat in December 1879 to stand in a

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in the Sheffield constituency, taking the seat on 21 December 1879. However he held the Sheffield seat for less than four months, being voted out by just 40 votes on 3 April 1880. He was elected as MP for

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in 1882, and when that seat was abolished, he contested, but lost, the new

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seat at the 1885 general election. On 7 July 1886, at the 1886 general election, he was elected as M.P. for the Brigg constituency in

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. He held the seat until 1894 when he was appointed Recorder of Sheffield. He kept this position until he resigned shortly before his death, in late 1902. In 1896 he was appointed as Judge of the Cheshire County Court but only held the position for two weeks, transferring to be Judge of the Sheffield County Court on 24 April 1896. Waddy married Emma Garbutt, from

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, who died in 1889. He died in

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on 30 December 1902, aged 72.

References

*Stainton, J.H. (1924). The Storm of Politics. In ''The Making of Sheffield, 1865–1914'', chapter 4. Sheffield: E. Weston & Sons. (This book is out of print but an OCR'd version i
available online
) *Gummer, G. (1927). ''Reminiscences of Rotherham: A Retrospect of over 60 years'', pp. 106–108. Rotherham: H Garnett and Company Limited. (This book is out of print but a transcription i

) *"." ''Leigh Rayments Peerage Page''. Accessed on 20 June 2005. (See also and on the same website.) *

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Waddy, Samuel Danks 1830 births 1902 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Scottish Liberal Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies People from Gateshead Politicians from Tyne and Wear Politics of Sheffield UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 People educated at Wesley College, Sheffield Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Barnstaple Teachers at King Edward VII School, Sheffield