{{Short description|French parliamentarian and historian}} {{Use British English|date=May 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Richard Waddington | image = Waddington, Richard.jpg | caption = M. le sénateur Richard Waddington | birth_date = 22 May 1838 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1913|6|26|1838|5|22|df=yes}} | death_place = | education = | occupation = historian | parents = Thomas Waddington<br />Anne Chisholm | spouse = {{marriage|Louise Marie Anne Collison|1860}} | children = Walter Waddington | relatives = William Henry Waddington (brother)<br />Charles Waddington (cousin)<br />Walter Shirley (uncle) }}
'''Richard Waddington''' (22 May 1838 – 26 June 1913)<ref name="LCanada"> "Results Summary: Subject=Seven Years' War, 1756–1763" (list related books), National Library of Canada, 1997, webpage: [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/wbin/resanet/resultsm/l=0/d=1/r=1/e=0/s=s/n=SK/h=10/t=2831097/u=Subject=Seven+Years'+War,+1756-1763 LibCanada-search-7YrsWar]. </ref> was a French parliamentarian and historian, brother of William Henry (''Prime Minister of France'') and cousin of Professor Charles Waddington.
==Family business== The Waddingtons originally came from Lincolnshire. They became merchant bankers in London and established cotton mills in Lancashire.
His father, Thomas Waddington, took control of the family business ventures in France after his brother William's death in 1821. Senator Waddington's mother was Anne, granddaughter of William Chisholm MD, son of The Chisholm (''qv.'' Roderick Chisholm, 21st Chief of Chisholm).<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/17620|title=www.oup.com|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/17620}}</ref> Richard Waddington was a director of "Établissements Waddington fils et Cie"<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://ccrh.revues.org/2898?lang=en|title=Les échanges de technologie entre la France et le monde anglo-américain à l'ère de l'industrialisation : le cas des moteurs hydrauliques|first=Serge|last=Benoit|date=15 October 1989|journal=Les Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques. Archives|issue=4|via=ccrh.revues.org|doi=10.4000/ccrh.2898|doi-access=free}}</ref> at Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre in Eure-et-Loir.
==Politics and writing == Waddington was elected a Deputy in the French Parliament in 1876, where his industrial experience was valued. He sat on the Centre-Left benches until 1891 when he was elected as Senator for Seine-Inférieure. He returned to the Senate in 1900 and in 1909. He served until his death in 1913.
He wrote ''Louis XV et le renversement des alliances'' (Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1896), and ''La guerre de sept ans: histoire diplomatique et militaire'' (five volumes, Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, published 1899–1914).<ref name=LCanada/>
M. le sénateur Waddington died in 1913.<ref name=LCanada/> Some of his writings were published later.
===Marriage=== In 1860, he married Louise Marie Anne Collison. They had a son, Brigadier-General Walter Waddington (born 1864), a senior French Army officer, who died in Germany in 1920.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gehin|first=Gérard|title=Livre d'or des officiers superieurs mort pour le France guerre 14-18|publisher=Le Souvenir français|pages=81–86|url=http://www.souvenir-francais67.fr/EXEMPLAIRE%20DEMO.pdf|archive-date=13 March 2014|access-date=17 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313033057/http://www.souvenir-francais67.fr/EXEMPLAIRE%20DEMO.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Honours == * 45px - Chevalier, Légion d'honneur
==See also== * Professor Charles Waddington, cousin of William Henry Waddington * William Henry Waddington, Prime Minister of France and brother of Richard Waddington * Alfred Waddington, uncle of Richard Waddington
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.senat.fr/senateur-3eme-republique/waddington_richard1606r3.html www.senat.fr] * [http://www.legiondhonneur.fr/fr/page/la-medaille-militaire/86 www.legiondhonneur.fr]
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