[1] He was educated at the King's School, Parramatta and at the University of Sydney, and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England, serving in the 1900s as the curate in the parish of Singleton, New South Wales, where his brother Stacy was the vicar.
[4] After this, he was added as emergency cover twelfth man to the Australian team for the fifth Test match, though he was not required to play.
[8] In the 1913–14 season, he organised and captained a tour of Ceylon by a New South Wales side that included several former players, among them Test cricketers Roy Minnett and Gerry Hazlitt.
[12][13] When first-class cricket resumed in England in 1919 after the First World War, Waddy, qualified by residence, played in the school holidays for Warwickshire.
He had some success in the first three years, scoring a final century, an unbeaten 109 made out of a total of 229, in the 1921 match against Middlesex at Lord's.