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- The Revd Daniel Waterland, DD
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Master of Magdalene College, 1713-1740
Born in Walesby, Lincolnshire on 14 February 1682/83. Second son of Henry, Rector of Walesby
School - Lincoln
Admitted sizar (age 16) at Magdalene on 30 March 1699
B.A. 1702/3; M.A. 1706; B.D. 1714; D.D. 1717 (Com. Reg)
Made a Fellow in 1704 and served as Master between 1714 and 1740
Vice-Chancellor of the University, 1715-6
Incorporated at Oxford in 1724
Ordained Deacon at Peterborough on 3 June 1705 and priest, on 9 March 1706/7
Curate of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 1707-8
Rector of Ellingham, Norfolk, 1713
Rector of St Augustine, Paul's Gate, London, 1721-30
Chancellor of York, 1722-40
Prebend of Windsor, 1727-40
Vicar of Twickenham, 1730-40
Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1730-40
He was author of many learned works. ‘Few names, recorded in the annals of the Church of England, stand so high in the estimation of its most sound and intelligent members, as that of Dr Waterland… this distinguished writer’ (Van Mildert, William, The Works of the Rev. Daniel Waterland, D. D.: to Which Is Prefixed a Review of the Author's Life and Writings, Volume 1, p.1).
Married Theodosia, daughter of John Tregonwell, of Anderton, Dorset
Died on 23 November 1740 or 23 December 1740. Buried at Windsor
College Magazine
Article: ‘Student counselling, eighteenth-century style’ by Ged Martin, College Magazine, No. 26 (1981-82) pp. 45-49
Article by Eamon Duffy, College Magazine, No. 33 (1988-89) pp. 22-26
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
W. Van Mildert, ed, The Works of the Revd Daniel Waterland vol 1 (1823) pp. 1-266, ‘A review of the author’s life and writings’;
Holtby, R. T., Daniel Waterland, 1683-1740: a study on orthodoxy (1966)