Edwin Waterhouse (4 June 1841 – 17 September 1917) was an

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. He is best known for having co-founded, with

Samuel Lowell Price Samuel Lowell Price (1821–1887) was an English accountant. He is best known for having co-founded, with William Hopkins Holyland and Edwin Waterhouse, the accountancy practice of ''Price Waterhouse'' that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCoop ...

and

William Hopkins Holyland William Hopkins Holyland (1807-1882) was an English accountant. He is best known for having co-founded, with Samuel Lowell Price and Edwin Waterhouse, the accountancy practice of ''Price Waterhouse'' that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCooper ...

, the accountancy practice of ''Price Waterhouse'' that now forms part of

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Career

Born at Oakfield,

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, Edwin Waterhouse was the son of a wealthy cotton broker. His brothers were prominent

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, designer of

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and many other iconic

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buildings, and

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Theodore Waterhouse Theodore Waterhouse (1838–1891) was an English solicitor and founder of the City of London law firm Waterhouse & Co, which now forms part of Fieldfisher. Theodore Waterhouse was born in 1838 in Aigburth, Liverpool, the son of a wealthy cotto ...

, who founded the firm of Waterhouse & Co. that continues to practise in the

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(now as part of Field Fisher Waterhouse). Edwin Waterhouse was educated at

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and then its associated university

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. He joined forces with

and

in 1865. In 1889 Waterhouse, along with a group of prominent businessmen, politicians and lawyers, founded The Law Debenture Corporation. He also served as president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for the years 1892 to 1894. Waterhouse's

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, 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. In 2007 the courtyard of

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, the Alfred Waterhouse designed building that now houses the

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's faculty of law, was refurbished with a grant from PriceWaterhouseCoopers in memory of Edwin Waterhouse. His son, Nicholas Edwin Waterhouse, became senior partner of Price Waterhouse & Company, and president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants."Sir Nicholas Waterhouse." ''The Times'', 30 December 1964, p. 10.

References and sources

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Waterhouse, Edwin Alumni of University College London 1841 births 1917 deaths English accountants People educated at University College School PricewaterhouseCoopers 19th-century English businesspeople