# Michael Waterhouse

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{{Short description|British architect}}
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| name                      = Michael Theodore Waterhouse
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Captain '''Michael Theodore Waterhouse''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|MC}} (1888–1968) was a British architect.<ref>{{cite web|title=Your Paintings|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/michael-theodore-waterhouse-18881968-cbe-priba-216405|publisher=[Art UK](/source/Art_UK)|accessdate=19 October 2013}}</ref> Waterhouse was the third generation to be President of the [Royal Institute of British Architects](/source/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects) (1948–1950), following his father [Paul Waterhouse](/source/Paul_Waterhouse) and grandfather [Alfred Waterhouse](/source/Alfred_Waterhouse).

==Personal life==
Waterhouse was born 31 August 1888. His father Paul Waterhouse married Palgrave in 1887. Educated at [Eton College](/source/Eton_College) and [Balliol College, Oxford](/source/Balliol_College%2C_Oxford).<ref>{{cite book|title=Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: Vol. 2 (L-Z)|date=20 December 2001|publisher=Royal Institute of British Architects|page=925|isbn=9780826455147|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkThQYLb3ZUC&q=Michael+Waterhouse+RIBA&pg=PA925|editor=Antonia Brodie|accessdate=19 October 2013}}</ref>

He undertook his architectural studies at the [Architectural Association](/source/Architectural_Association_School_of_Architecture), where he returned to become a member of the Council from 1921 to 1924, and the [Royal Academy Schools](/source/Royal_Academy_Schools).

On 16 November 1920, Waterhouse married Rissa Barclay (daughter of Hubert Barclay) in London,<ref>{{cite news|title=Forthcoming Marriages|newspaper=The Times|date=29 September 1920}}</ref> and they had one son, David, who also went on to be an architect,<ref>[https://m.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-55143-109 "DECEASED ESTATES"], ''The Gazette'', 22 February 1998. Retrieved 31 October 2017.</ref> and three daughters.

==Career==

In 1912 Waterhouse joined the [Inns of Court Officer Training Corps](/source/Inns_of_Court_Regiment) and in 1914 he was commissioned into the Notts Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and served in Greece and the Near East during the [First World War](/source/First_World_War). He was awarded the [Military Cross](/source/Military_Cross) and after the war he commanded a regiment in Syria.<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Mr Michael Waterhouse|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=buc_ttda&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS204828343&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|accessdate=19 October 2013|newspaper=The Times|date=23 May 1968}}</ref> In the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) he served with the [Home Guard](/source/Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom)).

Waterhouse joined his father Paul Waterhouse into the family firm from 1919 to 1924 and then after his father's death he established his own practice with Cedric Ripley in 1925 called Waterhouse and Ripley.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cedric Gurney Ripley|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=205096|work=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|accessdate=19 October 2013}}</ref> His son David joined the practice in 1956.

Waterhouse became as associate of the RIBA in 1920 and was president of the institute from 1948 to 1950.

He was made [CBE](/source/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) in the [1953 Coronation Honours](/source/1953_Coronation_Honours)

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