Waterland, Daniel (1683-1740), theologian and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

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Waterland, Daniel (1683-1740), theologian and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

• The Revd Daniel Waterland, DD

14 February 1683 - 23 December 1740

Master of Magdalene College, 1713-1740

Matriculated in 1699, aged 16. Became a Fellow in 1704;. Served as Vice-Chancellor, 1715-1716. He was an influential theologian; Royal Chaplain, and Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1730. He refused the Bishopric of Llandaff. He was author of many learned works (ed. Van Mildert, 6 vols). ‘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, vol 1, p. 1).

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

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)