John Waddington
English colonial administrator
About John Waddington
Lived 1890 – 1957 (aged 66).
Sir Eubule John Waddington, (9 April 1890 – 18 January 1957) was an English colonial administrator.
Biography He was educated at Saltus Grammar School, Bermuda, at Dulwich College, England, and later as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, where he studied from 1909 to 1913.
He served in the Administrative Service in Kenya from 1914 to 1932, Colonial Secretary of Bermuda from 1932 to 1935, and of British Guiana from 1935 to 1938.
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Who was John Waddington?
English colonial administrator
When was John Waddington born?
John Waddington was born on 9 April 1890.
When did John Waddington die?
John Waddington died on 18 January 1957.
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