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DEATH OF Mr. W. ANGELO W ADDINGTON. 
Mr. William Angelo Waddington, the founder of the Club, 
its first Secretary, and an honorary member, died in Manchester 
on Tuesday, January 29th. At the meeting of the Club held 
on Tuesday, February 5th, Mr. Fred. J. Grant, J.P., paid a 
tribute to the work and worth of the deceased gentleman, 
in the following eloquent terms : 
On Tuesday evening last, while we were listening to a 
paper which would have delighted his heart, there passed 
away the man who founded the Burnley Literary and Scientific 
Club. Some of us in this room can remember across the 
mists of fifty years how the tedium of school hours was en- 
livened by clever and humorous sketches made by William 
Angelo Waddington. He was always known by the name 
of Angelo : even in youth some sense of the responsibility 
attaching to such an appellation seemed to rest on his mind, 
for he was ever susceptible to the higher influences. Whenever 
possible he spent his Saturdays amid the ruins of the Cistercian 
Abbey of Whalley, taking measurements and making drawings, 
and in imagination building up the old waste places and re- 
peopling the silent shades. Years later the result of this 
careful and diligent study was given to the world in his book 
on the architecture of the old buildings in the valleys of the 
Calder and Kibble, in which many of the venerable churches 
and ancient mansions of the district are depicted. So 
thorough was his study of Whalley that he was able to give 
a delineation of the Abbey as it appeared in the days of its 
grandeur and usefulness centuries ago. 
His father was an architect who superintended the erection 
of many houses and several mills and public buildings in and 
around Padiham, where he lived. He established an office 
in Grimshaw-street, Burnley (where in later years many 
committee meetings of this club were held), and there the 
son developed that talent for architecture which has made 
his name known far beyond the limits of the county. Young 
Waddington took every available opportunity to travel, 
visiting especially the cathedrals of England, and later those 
