Henry Scadding was a Canadian

Canada

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 author and clergyman.

Scadding was born in Dunkeswell

Dunkeswell

Dunkeswell is a village in Devon, England. It is approximately north of the town of Honiton.-History:Dunkeswell is notable for having a busy small airfield, now Dunkeswell Aerodrome which was initially established as an American Navy air base during World War II, and continues to offer civil...

, Devon

Devon

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, England

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, and migrated to Canada with his parents, John Scadding

John Scadding

John Scadding was an early settler in York, Upper Canada . He served as clerk to Upper Canada's first lieutenant governor John Graves Simcoe....

 and Melicent Triggs, in 1821. He was educated at Upper Canada College

Upper Canada College

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 and at St. John's College

St John's College, Cambridge

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 at Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

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, Cambridge

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, England

England

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, from which he graduated in 1837. He was the first boy enroled at Upper Canada College

Upper Canada College

Upper Canada College , located in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is an independent elementary and secondary school for boys between Senior Kindergarten and Grade Twelve, operating under the International Baccalaureate program. The secondary school segment is divided into ten houses; eight are...

 and has a Day Boy House named after him there.

In 1838 he was appointed to a tutorship at Upper Canada College and was ordained a priest of the Church of England

Church of England

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 – Upper Canada College later named a house in his honour, Scadding's. In 1847 he became rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity

Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto

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, a post he held until 1875. He was also a canon of St. James' Cathedral.

He edited the Canadian Journal of Science, Literature, and History from 1868 to 1878. He also published many books, including Memorial of the Reverend William Honywood Riply (1849), Shakespeare the Seer—the Interpreter (1864), Truth's Resurrection (1865), Christian Pantheism (1865), Toronto of Old (1873), The Four Decades of York, Upper Canada (1884) and A History of the Old French

France

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 Fort at Toronto (1887). In his writings Scadding was principally interested in history

History

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 and religious themes.

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Building	Year Completed	Builder	Style	Source	Location	Image
Henry Scadding Home	1862	Henry Scadding Henry Scadding Henry Scadding was a Canadian author and clergyman.Scadding was born in Dunkeswell, Devon, England, and migrated to Canada with his parents, John Scadding and Melicent Triggs, in 1821. He was educated at Upper Canada College and at St. John's College at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England,...			6 Trinity Square Trinity Square (Toronto) Trinity Square is a public square in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by the Toronto Eaton Centre, an office building known as Bell Trinity Square, and the Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel. The square's primary feature is the Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity...

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