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'''Charles Waddington''' [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (24 October 1796 – 22 November 1858) was a [[major-general]] in the [[Bombay Engineer Group|Bombay Engineers]] of the British [[East India Company]].

==Family and education==
Charles Waddington was born at 124 [[Sloane Street]], [[Brompton, London]], on 24 October 1796. He was the fifth son of William Waddington of [[Walkeringham]], [[Nottinghamshire]], by his wife, Grace Valentine, daughter of Henry Sykes of [[London]].<ref name="DNB">{{DNB|wstitle=Waddington, Charles|volume=58}}</ref> He was educated at the [[East India Company]]'s [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] from 1811 to 1812.<ref>Vibart 1894, p. 662.</ref>

==Career==
Waddington received his commission as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Bombay Engineer Group|Bombay Engineers]] on 3 April 1813, and arrived in [[India]] on 22 May 1814. He accompanied Colonel Kennedy's force to the Concan, and his services at the assaults of Madanghar (eighty miles south-east of [[Mumbai|Bombay]]) and of Jamba were favourably mentioned.<ref>General orders, 15 February 1818</ref> Towards the end of 1819 he went home on leave, was promoted to be [[lieutenant]] on 16 November 1820, married in 1822, and on his return to India in 1823 acted as executive engineer at Baroda. He was promoted to [[Captain (land)|captain]] on 29 July 1825, and appointed in October executive engineer of the Baroda subsidiary force. In November 1827 he was moved to Bombay as [[civil engineer]] at the presidency, and in August 1828 acted also as superintending engineer. He was appointed to the command of the engineer corps and to take charge of the Engineer Institution in October 1830. In September 1834 he commanded the engineers at Sirur, returning to the presidency as superintending engineer in January 1835.<ref name="DNB"/>

On 28 June 1838 Waddington was promoted to be [[major]],<ref>{{cite journal |date=24 July 1838 |title=Promotions |journal= London Gazette |issue= 19639 |pages= 5–7 |publisher= Stationery Office |location=London |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=19639&geotype=London&gpn=1667&type=ArchivedIssuePage|accessdate=14 September 2008 |quote=... appoint the under-mentioned Officers, of the East India Company's Forces, to take rank ... To be MAJORS ... Charles Waddington}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> and in May of the following year was appointed superintending engineer of the southern provinces. In September 1841 he went to Sind as commanding engineer. He accompanied Major-General [[Richard England (British Army officer, born 1793)|Richard England]] in his march through the [[Bolan Pass]] in the autumn of 1842, and was mentioned in England's dispatch of 10 October 1842<ref>{{cite journal |date= 10 January 1843 |title= Dispatches from Major-General R. England |journal= London Gazette |issue= 20185 |pages= 82 |publisher= Stationery Office |location=London |url= http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=20185&geotype=London&gpn=82&type=ArchivedIssuePage|accessdate=14 September 2008 |quote= ...I venture to submit the names of Major Waddington, Commanding Engineer; ... }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> for his services at Haikalzai. On 4 November 1842 he was appointed command engineer in [[Balochistan (Pakistan)|Baluchistan]] as well as [[Sind Division|Sind]]. He accompanied [[Charles James Napier|Sir Charles Napier]] as commanding engineer of his force in the celebrated march of eighty-two miles from Dijikote on 6 January 1843 to Imamghar, where they arrived on 12 January. Instructed to demolish the fort, Wadding fired his mines on 15 January. He himself lit the fuses of three mines, and was bending over the train of one when his assistant called upon him to run as the other mines were about to explode.<ref name="DNB"/>

Waddington took part in the [[Battle of Miani]] on 17 February 1843, where he acted as aide-de-camp to Napier and was mentioned in dispatches.<ref>{{cite journal |date=11 April 1843 |title= Dispatches from Major-General Sir Charles Napier, KCB |journal= London Gazette |issue= 20212 |pages= 1195 |publisher= Stationery Office |location=London |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=20212&geotype=London&gpn=1195&type=ArchivedIssuePage|accessdate=14 September 2008 |quote=... notices the gallant conduct of the undermentioned Officers: ... Major C. Waddington, Bombay Engineers ...}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> He was also at the [[Battle of Hyderabad]], or Dubba, on 24 March, when Napier again mentioned him as having "rendered the most important aid in examining the enemy's position with that cool courage which he possesses in so eminent degree".<ref>{{cite journal |date=6 June 1843 |title= Dispatches from Major-General Sir Charles Napier, KCB |journal= London Gazette |issue= 20231 |pages=1893 |publisher= Stationery Office |location=London |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=20231&geotype=London&gpn=1893&type=ArchivedIssuePage|accessdate=14 September 2008 |quote=... Major Waddington rendered me the most important aid in examining the enemy's position, with that cool courage which he possesses in so eminent a degree; ...}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> On 4 July he received the medal for Miani and Hyderabad and was appointed a Commander of the military division of the [[Order of the Bath]]<ref>
{{cite journal |date=4 July 1843 |title=Appointment (as recorded in ''Bulletins and Other State Intelligence, compiled and arranged from the official documents published in the London gazette., 1843'') (Google eBook), p. 344. |journal= London Gazette |issue= 20239 |pages= 2246 |publisher= Stationery Office |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A501AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA344|accessdate=14 September 2008 |quote=...Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the following Officers, in the East India Company's Service, to be Companions of the said Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath ... Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Waddington, Bombay Engineers...}}</ref> and also promoted to [[lieutenant-colonel]].<ref>{{cite journal |date=4 July 1843 |title=Promotions |journal= London Gazette |issue= 20239 |pages= 2247 |publisher= Stationery Office |location=London |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=20239&geotype=London&gpn=2247&type=ArchivedIssuePage|accessdate=14 September 2008 |quote=To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army, in the East Indies ... Major Charles Waddington, Bombay Engineers. Dated 4 July 1843 ...}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="DNB"/>

After a period of leave in England, Waddington was employed in special duty at [[Pune|Puna]] until October 1847, where he was appointed superintending and executive engineer at Aden, altered to chief engineer in April 1851, the court of directors desiring that 'their high approbation of his valuable services be conveyed to this zealous and able officer' (30 July 1851). He was promoted to [[colonel]] on 24 Nov. 1853 and [[major-general]] on 28 November 1854.<ref>{{cite journal |date=6 February 1855 |title=Promotions |journal= London Gazette |issue= 21658 |pages= 431–32 |publisher= Stationery Office |location=London |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=21658&geotype=London&gpn=432&type=ArchivedIssuePage|accessdate=14 September 2008 |quote=appoint undermentioned Officers of the East India Company's Forces to take rank ... To be MAJOR-GENERALS ...Charles Waddington, C.B., Bombay Engineers ...}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> On 4 May 1854 he was appointed chief engineer in the public works department, Bombay, and his services in making the preparation for the Persian expedition received official acknowledgement on 3 Dec. 1856. In November 1857 Waddington was appointed to the command in Sind. In September 1858 he was compelled by ill-health to leave India, and he died in London on 22 November of that year.<ref>{{cite journal |date=18 January 1859 |title=Promotions |journal= London Gazette |issue= 22220 |pages= 175 |publisher= Stationery Office |location=London |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=22220&geotype=London&gpn=175&type=ArchivedIssuePage|accessdate=14 September 2008 |quote=promotions to take place in the Indian Military Forces consequent of the death of ... Charles Waddington, C.B., Bombay Engineers, on 22 November 1858 ...}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="DNB"/>

==Personal life==
In 1822 Waddington married Anne Rebecca, daughter of John Pinchard of [[Taunton]], [[Somerset]]; and by her he left a family of six sons and two daughters. His eldest son, William (b. 1823), colonel Bombay Staff Corps, served in Persia (medal and clasp) 1856–1857, and became J.P. for Wiltshire. Another son, Thomas (b. 1827), became major-general of the Bombay Staff Corps.<ref name="DNB"/> He married in 1862 Emilie Helena Willoughby, daughter of Major-General Michael Francklin Willoughby.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politicks and Literature of the Year|year=1863 |publisher=Dodsley |page=317 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2KZGAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA317 }}</ref>

==Publications==
Waddington contributed several papers to the ''Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers'', including:
*"Account of the [[Battle of Miani|Battle of Meanee]]" (vol. 9)
*"Doctrines of Carpentry in their Application to the Construction of Roofs" (vol. 10)

==References==
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===Referred works===
*{{Cite encyclopedia|first1=R.H. |last1=Vetch |first2=M.G.M. (reviewer) |last2=Jones |title=Waddington, Charles (1796–1858) |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |edition=online |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28371 }} {{subscription}}
*{{cite book |first=H.M. |last=Vibart |title=Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note |place=Westminster |publisher=Archibald Constable |year=1894 |pages=324–7 |ol=23336661M }}
*[[India Office Records]]
*Despatches
*Kelly's Handbook
*Royal Engineers' Records

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