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St. Matthew and St. John the Baptist. And the first picture 
that greets the eye of the caller at his Manchester office is a 
photograph of his latest and best work in Burnley — the 
beautiful Wesleyan church in Manchester-road 
But his memorial is not in such forms alone. So long as 
this Club exists to cultivate and foster the study of art, science, 
literature and philosophy, so long will the name of Angelo 
Waddington be held in grateful remembrance. Who can 
forget the earnestness cf his work, the high tone he gave to 
our proceedings, the lofty standard he always insisted on 
upholding, his energy in providing annual exhibitions, or the 
eloquence and force, the subtlety of disquisition the mastery 
of analysis and the power of imagination shown in the several 
papers he gave to us ? The five years of his secretaryship 
were notable in our annals, and in some particulars have never 
been excelled. For two years he was president, and his 
speeches from the chair always instructed and delighted his 
hearers. His hospitality to those assisting the Club was 
unbounded. We cannot estimate how many members and 
friends of this Club have been made wiser, happier, better, 
by those pursuits in which he by precept and by example 
encouraged his townsmen seriously to engage. 
After life’s fitful fever he sleeps midway between the town 
of his birth and the greater town the scene of so many of his 
triumphs. The valley of the Calder has produced few men 
of genius superior to him. Not many of our ancient grammar 
schools have sent forth in one generation and under one master 
two such renowned students of art as Philip Gilbert Hamerton 
and William Angelo Waddington. And when presently we 
stand for a moment to give outward token of our respect to 
one whose loss we mourn in gratitude and tears, we shall 
seem to see once again in this room, the home of so much 
of his educational enterprise, the form, long so familiar here, 
of one whose name and work are the possession and pride 
of our town, one who bore the fine character of a true friend, 
a faithful and affectionate brother, a charming companion, 
a lover of the best in literature, a reverent student of nature, 
a consummate artist. His spirit will, we hope, long be in 
the midst of us, exercising a constant influence, a peculiar 
grace, leading us from study to study, and from joy to joy ; 
consoling us, inspiring and encouraging us to lofty thoughts, 
and high ideals of art, in work, in life. 
