Customs officer and author of the first substantial description of the Isle of Man in English.

He came to the Island on revenue business. When the Commissioners of Customs sent officers to the Isle of Man, and the Island's government sent agents to England to concert arrangements that would be mutually advantageous, Waldron's appointment followed. It was suspended on 25 September 1713.

The book made his name, and it was published after his death. A Description of the Isle of Man, with some Useful and Entertaining Reflections on the Laws, Customs, and Manners of the Inhabitants was printed in 1731 for the widow and orphans, by subscription, in folio, at two guineas, and dedicated to William O'Brian, Earl of Inchiquin. It formed part of The Complete Works, in Verse and Prose, of George Waldron, Gent., late of Queen's College, Oxon. A later edition of 1744 carried a fuller title promising the Island's antiquity, history, laws, customs, religion and manners, its animals and minerals, and authentic relations of apparitions of giants that had lived under the castle.

What it preserved was the folklore. Waldron is the source of a great many of the Manx fairy tales, traditions and customs still current, and later collectors quote him directly. His account of Hunting the Wren describes how, on the 24th of December towards evening, all the servants had a holiday, went not to bed all night, but rambled about until the bells rang in all the churches.

The Manx Society reprinted him as volume XI of its series in 1862-63, edited with an introductory notice and notes by William Harrison, and listed a fresh edition from the 1731 folio among works it hoped to publish.