John Waddington (minister)

He then entered Airedale College, and, after a brief theological course under William Vint, was ordained pastor of the congregational church in Orchard Street, Stockport, on 23 May 1833.

[1] In 1846 he moved to Southwark, to Union Street Chapel, the oldest congregational church in the world.

He found it in financial difficulties, which at one time threatened to disperse the congregation, but which he eventually overcame.

In May 1864, with the support of leading congregationalists such as Thomas Binney and Samuel Morley a new building, under the name The Pilgrim Church.

In 1869 he began the issue of his major work on Congregational History, which occupied the latter part of his life.