He was educated at Westminster School; he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 24 February 1632, graduating B.A.
He was elected proctor on 29 April 1647 and Camden professor of ancient history on 2 August that year.
Disregarding their order for his removal from his post of proctor, he was pronounced by them guilty of contempt of the authority of parliament on 14 December 1647. it John Selden interceded, and Waring avoided banishment from the university.
He retired to Apley in Shropshire, the seat of Sir William Whitmore, with whom he subsequently visited France.
[1] Waring died unmarried in Lincoln's Inn Fields on 10 May 1658, and was buried at St. Michael's, College Hill.