# Edwin Waterhouse

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{{Short description|English accountant (1841-1917)}}
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thumb|Edwin Waterhouse c. 1907
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'''Edwin Waterhouse''' (4 June 1841 – 17 September 1917) was an [English](/source/England) [accountant](/source/accountant). He is best known for having co-founded, with [Samuel Lowell Price](/source/Samuel_Lowell_Price) and [William Hopkins Holyland](/source/William_Hopkins_Holyland), the accountancy practice of ''Price Waterhouse'' that now forms a part of [PricewaterhouseCoopers](/source/PricewaterhouseCoopers).

==Career==
Born at Oakfield, [Aigburth](/source/Aigburth), [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool), Edwin Waterhouse was the son of a wealthy cotton broker. His brothers were prominent [architect](/source/architect) [Alfred Waterhouse](/source/Alfred_Waterhouse), designer of [London](/source/London)'s [Natural History Museum](/source/Natural_History_Museum%2C_London) and many other iconic [Victorian](/source/Victorian_era) buildings, and [solicitor](/source/solicitor) [Theodore Waterhouse](/source/Theodore_Waterhouse), who founded the firm of [Waterhouse & Co.](/source/Waterhouse_%26_Co.) that continues to practise in the [City of London](/source/City_of_London) (now as part of [Field Fisher Waterhouse](/source/Field_Fisher_Waterhouse)).<ref name=memoirs/>

Edwin Waterhouse was educated at [University College School](/source/University_College_School) and then its associated university [University College London](/source/University_College_London).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.accountanttown.com/resources/famous-accountants/edwin-waterhouse/|title=Edwin Waterhouse Biography: Became the President of Institute of Chartered Accountants|publisher=Accountant Town|access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref> He joined forces with [Samuel Lowell Price](/source/Samuel_Lowell_Price) and [William Hopkins Holyland](/source/William_Hopkins_Holyland) at new offices at No. 13 [Gresham Street](/source/Gresham_Street) in London in 1865.<ref name=parker>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MFFJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA141 |title=Papers on Accounting History|first=R. H.|last=Parker|publisher=Garland Publishing|year=1984|page=141|isbn=9781317964018|access-date=31 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Edgar|year=1995|title=True and Fair: A History of Price Waterhouse|publisher= Hamish Hamilton|isbn=978-0241001721|pages=25, 31}}</ref> In 1889 Waterhouse, along with a group of prominent businessmen, politicians and lawyers, founded [The Law Debenture Corporation](/source/Law_Debenture). He also served as president of the [Institute of Chartered Accountants](/source/Institute_of_Chartered_Accountants_in_England_%26_Wales) for the years 1892 to 1894.<ref name=memoirs>{{cite book | first = Edwin | last = Waterhouse | title = The Memoirs of Edwin Waterhouse | publisher = Batsford | date = 1988 | isbn = 0-7134-5579-9 | editor = Edgar Jones}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.icaew.com/index.cfm?route=115767 | title = Chronological list of presidents together with the firms from which they emanated | publisher = Institute of Chartered Accountants | accessdate = 2007-11-08}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

Waterhouse's [memoirs](/source/memoirs), describing his upbringing, education and professional life, along with his relationship with his two brothers, were found in the firm's archive in 1985, and an edited version produced in 1988.<ref name=memoirs/>

In 2007 the courtyard of [Foxhill House](/source/Foxhill_House), the Alfred Waterhouse designed building that now houses the [University of Reading](/source/University_of_Reading)'s faculty of law, was refurbished with a grant from PriceWaterhouseCoopers in memory of Edwin Waterhouse.<ref name=bull472>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/bulletin/pdfs/472.pdf | title = Bulletin – 8 November 2007 | pages = 3 | publisher = University of Reading | accessdate = 2007-11-09 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

His son, [Nicholas Edwin Waterhouse](/source/Nicholas_Waterhouse), became senior partner of Price Waterhouse & Company, and president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.<ref>"Sir Nicholas Waterhouse." ''The Times'', 30 December 1964, p. 10.</ref>

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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160114075411/http://http// ''W. H. Auden – Family Ghosts'']
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