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the University he settled in France, | tion of the Duf aure cabinet in having, on attaining his majority,, Dec, 1877, M. Waddington became personally chosen the nationality Minister of Foreign Affairs. He adopted by his father. He became ' was the first plenipotentiary of a member of the Society of Anti- France at the Congress of Berlin quaries of France, and in the pur- ^ in 1878. After the resignation of suit of his favourite studies relat- Marshal MacMahon and the retreat ing to ancient coins and inscrip- of M. Duf aure, M. Waddington was tions, he visited Asia Minor (in 1850 i invited by M. Gr^vy to remain at and 1862), England, and Germany, the Foreign Office while aasiiming His valuable contributions towards | the Presidency of the Council (Feb. the history and archsdology of I 4, 1879). He had in that capacity France led to his being elected, in j to maintain before the Parliament 1865, a member of the Academy of i a policy which was considered too Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. In Republican by the Senate and too that year he endeavoured at a bye- moilerate by the Chamber of Depu- election to enter the Corps Legis- | ties. On Dec. 27, 1879, he resigned, latif, as member for the fourth and was replaced as Minister of circonscription of the department I Foreign Affairs and as President of of the Aisne, but his candidature the Council by one of his colleagues, was unsuccessful. However, on | M. de Freycinet. At this juncture Feb. 8, 1871, he was sent as a re- i he refused the offer of the London presentative of that department to | embassy, and paid a visit to Italy, the National Assembly. At first | where he was received by the King he sat in the Left Centre, but at l (March, 1880). He was appointed the close of the year he withdrew | Ambassador at the Court of St. from the constitutional monarchical j Jameses in succession to M, Tissot, party and allied himself to the i in July, 1883. He is President of republicans, giving a hearty sup-, the General Council of the depart- port to the policy of M. Thiers. He ment of the Aisne. He is a P^tes- was a member of numerous com- ' tant, and related to the Bunsens, missions, and was the reporter of i whose late mother, the wife of the law relating to the Conseils ' the chevalier, was a Waddington. G^neraux (Aug., 1871). Appointed M. Waddingfton has published : Minister of Public Instruction, in I — *^' Voyage en Asie Mineure au the place of M. Jules Simon, May ' point de vue numismatique," 1852 ; 19, 1873, M. Waddington retired, \ a continuation of Lebas' "Voyage five days later, with M. Thiers, and Arch^logique en Gr^ce et en Asie resumed his seat on the benches of > Mineure, 1862 ; and " L'Edit de the Left Centre. Except on some i Diocletien," with new fragments questions of detail, or rather of | and a commentary, 1864. The King procedure, M. Waddington voted i of the Belgians conferred the Grand regularly with the Republicans. Riband of the Order of Leopold on On Jan. 30, 1876, he was elected a I M. Waddington in April, 1878. He Senator for the department of the j was elected an honorary Fellow of Aisne, together with M. Henri Mar-. Trinity College, Cambridge, April tin and M. Saint- Vallier : his term | 16, 1881.

of office will expire in 1885. He was; WADE, Sir Thomas Francis, recalled to the Ministry of Public, K.C.B., elder son of Colonel Thomas Instruction in the Cabinet of March Wade, C.B., born about 1820, en- 10, 1876, in succession to M. Wallon, i tered the army as Ensign in the and he retained his portfolio under i 81st Foot in 1838, and served after- the administration of M. Jules I wards in China and elsewhere in Simon, with whom he resigned | the 42nd Highlanders and the 98th pffice May 17, 1877. On the forma- | Foot, from which he retired a9