Philip Napier Waggett SSJE (27 February 1862 – 4 July 1939) was a British Anglican priest, scholar, and military chaplain.

Waggett was born on 27 February 1862 in Kensington, London, England. He was one of four sons of John Waggett, a "distinguished London physician":^[1] his younger brother, Ernest, became a distinguished surgeon.^[2] He was educated at Charterhouse School, an all-boys public school in Surrey.^[3] He studied natural sciences at Christ Church, Oxford, where he had been awarded an exhibition, and he graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1884.^[1] He was drawn to Anglo-Catholicism while studying for his first degree at Oxford University, coming under the influence of Charles Gore, E. S. Talbot, Francis Paget, and H. S. Holland. He then took a second degree in theology, and graduated with a second class BA in 1985, after only one year of study.^[1]

Waggett was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1885 and a priest in 1886.^[1] After parish ministry, he joined the Society of St John the Evangelist in 1892.^[4] He served with the religious order in Oxford, Cape Town, London and Cambridge. He served in the British Army as a chaplain throughout the First World War, and was tasked as a political officer with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine from 1918 to 1920. Returning to civilian life, he was a missionary in India and a lecturer at the General Theological Seminary in New York, before serving as Vicar of St Mary the Great, Cambridge from 1927 to 1930. He lived out his retirement with the Cowley Fathers and is buried in the churchyard of Cowley St John, Oxford.^[1][3][5]

• Waggett, P.N. (1901). "Science and Faith: An address given at the Pusey House, Oxford". Pusey House Occasional Papers (3).
• Waggett, P.N. (1905). "Science and Conduct: An address given at the Pusey House, Oxford". Pusey House Occasional Papers (4).
• Waggett, P. N. (1905). The scientific temper in religion, and other addresses. London: Longmans, Green and co.