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|honorific-prefix = [[The Reverend]]
|name        = Henry Scadding
|image       = Henry Scadding.jpg
|alt         = 
|caption     = Scadding in 1897
|birth_date  = {{Birth date|1813|07|29}}
|birth_place = [[Dunkeswell]], Devon, England
|death_date  = {{Death date and age|1901|05|06|1813|07|29}}
|death_place = [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada
|other_names = 
|known_for   = 
|occupation  = [[Anglican]] clergyman and writer
|nationality = 
|father      = [[John Scadding]]
}}
'''Henry Scadding''' (July 29, 1813 &ndash; May 6, 1901) was a Canadian writer and [[Anglican]] clergyman.

==Life and career==
Scadding was born at [[Dunkeswell]] in Devon, England, and he immigrated to [[York, Upper Canada]] (now [[Toronto]], Ontario) in 1821 with his parents, [[John Scadding]] and Melicent Triggs. He was educated at [[Upper Canada College]] and then attended [[St John's College, Cambridge|St. John's College]] at [[Cambridge University]] in [[Cambridge]], England, from which he graduated in 1837.<ref>{{acad|id=SCDN833H|name=Scadding, Henry}}</ref> 

Scadding was the first boy enrolled at Upper Canada College and now has a Day Boy House named after him there, called [[Scadding's]]. In 1838, he was appointed to a [[tutor]]ship at Upper Canada College and was [[ordained]] a priest of the [[Church of England]]. On August 14, 1841, he married Harriet Eugenia Baldwin (d. 1843) and they had one daughter, Henrietta Millicent Scadding (June 1, 1842 – 1926).

In 1847, Scadding became the [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of the [[Church of the Holy Trinity (Toronto)|Church of the Holy Trinity]] in Toronto, a post he held until 1875. He was also a canon of [[St. James' Cathedral (Toronto)|St. James' Cathedral]] in Toronto.

Scadding wrote many books, including the ''Memorial of the Reverend William Honywood Riply'' (1849), ''Shakespeare the Seer&mdash;the Interpreter'' (1864), ''Truth's Resurrection'' (1865), ''Christian Pantheism'' (1865), ''Toronto of Old'' (1873),<ref name="torontoist2016-07-07">{{cite news|author=Erin Sylvester|date=2016-07-07|title=Meet One of Toronto's First Historians|work=[[Torontoist]]|url=https://torontoist.com/2016/07/meet-one-of-torontos-first-historians-henry-scadding/|quote=His best known book is Toronto of Old (1873), which discusses the history of European contact and settlement in Toronto, starting with the French in the 17th century.|archiveurl=|archivedate=|accessdate=2020-04-30}}</ref> ''The Four Decades of York, Upper Canada'' (1884) and ''A History of the Old French Fort at Toronto'' (1887). In his writings, Scadding was principally interested in history and religious themes.

He also edited the ''Canadian Journal of Science, Literature, and History'' from 1868 to 1878. Scadding was a co-founder and the first president of the [[York Pioneers]], a Toronto-based [[historical society]] that preserved [[Scadding Cabin]], which had been built by his father in the early days of the town of York.

==Works==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;"
|- style="background:lightblue;"
!width=28%|Building
!width=8%|Year Completed
!width=20%|Builder
!width=10%|Style
!width=5%|Source
!width=32%|Location
!width=7%|Image
|-
| [[Henry Scadding House]]
| 1862
| Henry Scadding
|
|
| 6 [[Trinity Square (Toronto)|Trinity Square]], Toronto
| [[Image:Henry Scadding House.jpg|100px]]
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Henry Scadding}}{{Archival records|title=Henry Scadding papers}} 
* {{FadedPage|id=Scadding, Henry, Rev|name=Henry Scadding|author=yes}}
* {{Gutenberg author | id=37540}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Henry Scadding}}
* {{DictCanbio|ID=7055}}
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/hscadding/ Bibliographic directory] from [[Project Canterbury]]

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[[Category:19th-century Canadian historians]]
[[Category:19th-century Canadian male writers]]
[[Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Burials at St. James Cemetery, Toronto]]
[[Category:19th-century Canadian Anglican priests]]
[[Category:Canadian male non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:People from East Devon District]]
[[Category:Upper Canada College alumni]]
[[Category:British emigrants to Canada]]


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