Mary King Waddington | |
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Born | Mary Alsop King April 28, 1833 |
Died | June 30, 1923 | (aged 90)
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Parent(s) |
Charles King Henrietta Liston Low |
Relatives |
Rufus King (half-brother) Richard Waddington (brother-in-law) James Green Martin (brother-in-law) Rufus King (grandfather) Nicholas Low (grandfather) |
Mary Alsop King Waddington (April 28, 1833 – June 30, 1923) was an American author. She particularly wrote about her life as the wife of a French diplomat. [1]
Mary was born in New York City, New York on April 28, 1833, the daughter of Charles King (1789–1867), [2] an American academic, politician, newspaper editor and the ninth president of Columbia College (now Columbia University) and his second wife, [3] Henrietta Liston Low (1799–1882). [4]
Her paternal grandfather was U.S. Senator Rufus King (1755–1827), the Federalist candidate for both Vice President ( 1804 and 1808) and President of the United States ( 1816). Her maternal grandfather was Nicholas Low (1739–1826), a New York merchant and developer. [5]
Mary moved to France with her family in 1871, where she met her eventual husband. [6] During World War I, she helped raise funds for soldiers and refugees. [7] [8] [9]
Mary was the author of Letter of a Diplomat's wife (1902), [10] Italian letters of a Diplomat's wife (1904), [11] [12] Chateau and Country Life in France (1909), and My First Years as a Frenchwoman (1914). [13]
She also wrote magazine articles, including a paper on International Marriages in Scribner's Magazine in October 1907. [14]
In 1874, she married William Henry Waddington (1826–1894) in Paris. Waddington was a French statesman who became the Prime Minister of France in 1879, and later French Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1883 to 1893. [15] He was born at Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre in Normandy and was the son of Thomas Waddington, a wealthy cotton manufacturer, and Janet Mackintosh Colin Chisholm. His parents were both naturalized citizens of France, born in England. He was the brother of Richard Waddington, a French legislator and historian, and cousin of Charles Waddington, a French philosopher. They were the parents of one son, Francis Richard Waddington, who married Charlotte Sallandrouze de Lamornaix (b. 1882), the daughter of Admiral Jean-Charles-Alexandre Sallandrouze de Lamornaix and granddaughter of Charles Sallandrouze de Lamornaix, on January 18, 1903, in Paris. [16]
She died on June 30, 1923, in Paris, France. [6]