Waterland, DANIEL, divine, was born at Waseley rectory in Lincolnshire, February 14, 1683. He studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, became fellow in 1704, and by 1727 canon of Windsor, in 1730 archdeacon of Middlesex and vicar of Twickenham. Waterland was a stout controversialist, and defended the faith that was in him with great vigour against Samuel Clarke, Daniel Whitby, and many more. Indeed he was thought in his day to have proved the fact of Christ's divinity. He died 23d December 1740.
His best books are the two Vindications of Christ's divinity (1719-23), and the Further Defence (1725), A Critical History of the Athanasian Creed (1724), A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist (1737), and Scripture Vindicated (1734), in answer to Tindal. There is a complete edition of his works, with Memoir, by Bishop Van Mildert (Oxford, 11 vols. 1823-28).