Daniel Waterland

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Daniel Waterland (1683–1740), theologian, born at Waseley Rectory, Lincolnshire, England, and educated at Cambridge, took orders, and obtained various preferments, becoming Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge 1713, Chancellor of York 1722, and Archdeacon of Middlesex 1730.

He was an acute and able controversialist on behalf of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity, on which he wrote several treatises. He was also the author of a History of the Athanasian Creed (1723).

In 1990, another Daniel Waterland was born in Wilmington, DE. As of November 24, 2006, he has done little of importance, but plans on following in his great-great-great Uncle's footsteps by becoming an Archdeacon. He is currently dating a respected member of the D.A.R.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.