Philip Napier Waggett SSJE (27 February 1862 – 4 July 1939) was a British Anglican priest, scholar, and military chaplain.
[3] He studied natural sciences at Christ Church, Oxford, where he had been awarded an exhibition, and he graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1884.
[1] He was drawn to Anglo-Catholicism while studying for his first degree at Oxford University, coming under the influence of Charles Gore, E. S. Talbot, Francis Paget, and H. S. Holland.
He served in the British Army as a chaplain throughout the First World War, and was tasked as a political officer with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine from 1918 to 1920.
Returning to civilian life, he was a missionary in India and a lecturer at the General Theological Seminary in New York, before serving as Vicar of St Mary the Great, Cambridge from 1927 to 1930.