Mary Alsop King Waddington (April 28, 1833 – June 30, 1923) was an American author.
[1] Mary was born in New York City, New York on April 28, 1833, the daughter of Charles King (1789–1867),[2] an American academic, politician, newspaper editor and the ninth president of Columbia College (now Columbia University) and his second wife,[3] Henrietta Liston Low (1799–1882).
[5] Mary moved to France with her family in 1871, where she met her eventual husband.
[15] He was born at Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre in Normandy and was the son of Thomas Waddington, a wealthy cotton manufacturer, and Janet Mackintosh Colin Chisholm.
They were the parents of one son, Francis Richard Waddington, who married Charlotte Sallandrouze de Lamornaix (b.