Surname: Waddington Forename(s): Samuel b. 1844. d. 1923. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and biographer. Alternative signature: “S. Waddington.” Educated at Brasenose
College, Oxford. Employed at the Board of Trade with Austin Dobson and William Cosmo
Monkhouse. Author of several volumes of poetry including A Century of Sonnets (1889), Poems (1896), The Sonnets of Samuel Waddington (1906) and the biography Arthur Hugh Clough: A Monograph (1883). Biographical information: “Dobson, (Henry) Austin,” ODNB; BL; Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 492; Wellesley Index. (AC, CC)