William Henry Waddington, a French archaeologist, born in Paris, of English Protestant parents, in 1826. He graduated at Cambridge in 1849, and followed his father, a rich manufacturer, to France, where he was naturalized. He became known by his archaeological explorations in Asia Minor, in 1865 was elected to the academy of inscriptions and to the legislative body, and in 1871 to the national assembly, and again in 1876, when he became minister of public instruction and fine arts, which former office he had held under Thiers from May 19 till May 24, 1873. His first wife died in 1852; in 1875 he married Miss King of New York. His works include Voyage en Asie Mineure au point de vue numismatique (1850); Melanges de numismatique et de philologie (1861); Edit de Diocletien (1864); the Greek and Latin inscriptions in the continuation of Philippe Le Bas's Voyage archeologique en Gréce et en Asie Mineure (1868); and Fastes des provinces asiatiques de Vempire romain depuis leur origine jusqu'au regne de Diocletien (1872 et seq.).