Waterhouse (surname)

Waterhouse is an Old English locational surname. It comes from Waterhouses, County Durham, Waterhouse, Lancashire, Waterhouse, Staffordshire and Waterhouse in Chelmsford, Essex.^[1]

Notable people with this surname include

A

• Agnes Waterhouse (c. 1503 – 1566), the first woman executed for witchcraft in England
• Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905), an English architect
• Andrew Waterhouse (1958–2001), a British poet and musician

B

• Benjamin Waterhouse (1754–1846), an American physician
• Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807–1894), an English sculptor and natural history artist
• Bertrand James Waterhouse (1876–1965), an Australian architect
• Bill Waterhouse, an Australian barrister and bookmaker

C

• Charles Owen Waterhouse (1843–1917), an English entomologist
• Charles Waterhouse (artist) (born 1924), an American painter, illustrator and sculptor
• Charles Waterhouse (British politician) (1893–1975), a Conservative Member of Parliament 1924–1945 and 1950–1957
• Charles Waterhouse (hotelier), the founder of Deerhurst Resort
• Clive Waterhouse (born 1974), an Australian rules footballer

D

• Daniel Waterhouse, a fictional character from Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle novels
• Doug Waterhouse (1916–2000), an Australian entomologist, inventor of the active ingredient in Aerogard

E

• Eben Gowrie Waterhouse (1881–1977), Australian academic and horticulturist
• Edwin Waterhouse (1841–1917), an English accountant, co-founder of "Price Waterhouse"
• Ellis Waterhouse (1905–1985), an English art historian
• Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse (1857–1944), a British artist

F

• Frederick George Waterhouse (1815–1898), an English naturalist, first curator of the South Australian Museum

G

• Gai Waterhouse (born 1954), a Scottish-born Australian horse trainer
• George Waterhouse (disambiguation), multiple people
• Gilbert Waterhouse (1883–1916), an English architect and war poet
• Graham Waterhouse (born 1962), an English composer and cellist, son of William Waterhouse

H

• Helen Thomas Waterhouse, an archaeologist of ancient Greece
• Henry Waterhouse (1770–1812), a British naval officer associated with European settlement of Australia

J

• Jabez Waterhouse (1821–1891), an Australian Methodist minister
• James S. Waterhouse (1874–1908), an American professor of chemistry
• Joey Waterhouse (born 1988), an English footballer
• Rev. John Waterhouse, the general superintendent of the Wesleyan Missions in Australia and Polynesia, father of George Waterhouse (politician)
• John Waterhouse (astronomer) (1806–1879), the inventor in 1858 of photographic equipment known as Waterhouse stops
• John Waterhouse (headmaster) (1852–1940), an Australian educator, grandson of Rev. John Waterhouse, son of Jabez Waterhouse
• John Waterhouse Daniel (1845–1933), a Canadian physician and Conservative politician
• John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), a British Pre-Raphaelite painter
• Joseph Waterhouse (minister) (1828–1881), an Australian Methodist minister and missionary in Fiji

K

• Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009), an English writer

M

• Matthew Waterhouse (born 1961), a British actor
• Michael Waterhouse (1888-1968), a British architect

P

• Paul Waterhouse (1861–1924), an English architect
• Peter Waterhouse (disambiguation), multiple people

R

• Rachel Waterhouse (born 1923), an English historian
• Richard Green Waterhouse, a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. (Southern USA)
• Robbie Waterhouse, an Australian bookmaker involved in the Fine Cotton scandal
• Ronald Waterhouse (1926-2011), a Welsh High Court judge
• Rupert Waterhouse (1873–1958), an English physician, see Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome

T

• Tom Waterhouse, Australian bookmaker
• Trent Waterhouse (born 1981), an Australian professional rugby league player

W

• Walter Lawry Waterhouse (1887–1969), an Australian agricultural scientist
• William Waterhouse (bassoonist) (1931–2007), an English bassoonist, musicologist and academic, father of Graham Waterhouse
• William Waterhouse (violinist) (born 1917), a Canadian violinist
• William C. Waterhouse, an American mathematician

References