Edmund Waterton, Knight of the Supreme Order of Christ; Knight of Malta; Papal Privy Chamberlain; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (born 1830; died 1887) was a British antiquary. Born at Walton Hall, West Yorkshire

Walton Hall, West Yorkshire

Walton Hall is a stately home in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Wakefield. It was built in the Palladian style around 1767 on an island within a 26 acre lake, on the site of a former moated medieval hall. It was the ancestral home of the naturalist and traveller Charles Waterton, who...

, the only child of Charles Waterton

Charles Waterton

Charles Waterton was an English naturalist and explorer.-Heritage and Life:"Squire" Waterton was born at Walton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire to Thomas Waterton and Anne Bedingfield. He was of a Roman Catholic landed gentry family descended from Reiner de Waterton...

, he was a lifelong Catholic and was educated at Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College

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In 1862 he married Josephine Ennis, daughter of an Irish MP

Sir John Ennis, 1st Baronet

Sir John Ennis, 1st Baronet was an Irish Independent Irish and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1865....

. He was declared bankrupt in 1876 and was obliged to sell Walton Hall. After being widowed he remarried, in 1881, with Ellen Mercer.

Waterton's collection of rings is now partly in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...

; his collection of editions of The Imitation of Christ is now the core of the Edmund Waterton Collection in the British Library.

Publications

• Catalogue of the very extensive and valuable collection of antique and mediaeval rings, formed by that well-known collector, E. Waterton, etc. London: W. Clowes, [1868?].
• Edmund Waterton, Pietas Mariana Britannica: A History of English Devotion to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God, with a Catalogue of Shrines, Sanctuaries, Offerings, Bequests, and Other Memorials of the Piety of Our Forefathers. London 1879. Available on Internet Archive
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