of Cashel, according to Burghley's directions, by toasting his feet before the fire. He was knighted by Sir John Perrot in Christ Church, Dublin, on 20 June 1584, the deputy giving as his reason for so doing the fact that he dispended yearly more than a thousand marks. Amid the general chorus of disapproval with which Perrot's expedition against the Antrim Scots was greeted, Waterhouse raised his voice in Perrot's favour. He had already given up his office of secretary of state to please Fenton; in November he surrendered his patent of water bailiff of the Shannon, and shortly afterwards, in order to gratify Sir Henry Wallop, he laid aside the execution of his office of receiver of casualties. In the quarrel between Sir John Perrot and Archbishop Loftus he played the part of peacemaker without forfeiting the respect of either. ‘I, for my part,’ wrote Loftus, ‘must needs confess myself in sort bounden unto the gentleman for his faithful assistance in the late and long contention and dislike between my Lord Deputy and me … wherein he has shown himself an earnest persuader to a more moderate course than hath been used.’ As for Perrot, while granting Waterhouse leave, ‘having been long sick and in great danger,’ to go over to England to plead his own cause, he earnestly besought Burghley to intercede for the restoration of his patent, as some slight recompense for his long and faithful service. But Elizabeth was not easily to be moved, and Waterhouse had to enter into a detailed account of all his offices and rewards, explaining that, so far from having profited by them, he had been obliged to sell land in England to the value of over 4,000l. On 19 Oct. 1586 he was appointed chancellor of the exchequer or of the green wax in Ireland, which office he surrendered to George Clive in October 1589, having by that time received a grant (7 July 1588), in consideration ‘of his sufficiency and painful good service,’ of the office of overseer, water bailiff, and keeper of the river Shannon for life. He quitted Ireland in January 1591, and, retiring to his estate of Woodchurch in Kent, died there on 13 Oct. that year.
Waterhouse married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of George Villiers, whom he divorced in 1578; secondly, Margaret Spilman of Kent; thirdly, Deborah, widow of a Mr. Harlackenden of Woodchurch, who survived him. By none had he any issue; Edward Waterhouse (1619–1670) [q. v.] was his grand-nephew.
Edward Waterhouse (fl. 1622), colonist, was probably his nephew, and the son of Thomas Waterhouse of Berkhampstead, Berkshire. He was for some time secretary of the Virginia Company. He was the author of ‘A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affaires in Virginia. With a relation of the barbarous Massacre … executed by the Native Infidels upon the English on 22 March last’ (London, 1622, 4to), with a preface dated 22 Aug. 1622.
[A slight memoir of Waterhouse by his grand-nephew Edward will be found in Fuller's Worthies, ‘Herts,’ and in Lloyd's State Worthies, i. 422–5; Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, i. 418; Visitation of Hertfordshire, 1634; Cal. State Papers, Ireland, 1565–91, passim; Collins's Sidney Papers; Devereux's Lives of the Earls of Essex; Cal. of Fiants, Eliz. passim; M'Skimmin's Hist. of Carrickfergus; Official Returns of Members of Parl. Ireland; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 228; Bagwell's Ireland under the Tudors; Addit. MS. 15914, f. 35.]
WATERHOUSE, EDWARD (1619–1670), heraldic and miscellaneous writer, born at Greenford, Middlesex, in 1619, was son of Francis Waterhouse of that place, by his wife Bridget, daughter of Morgan Powell (Gent. Mag. 1796, i. 460). Sir Edward Waterhouse [q. v.] was his grand-uncle. He was educated possibly at Cambridge, of which university he graduated LL.D. per literas regias in 1668, but in the time of the Commonwealth he resided for some years at Oxford in order to pursue his studies in the Bodleian Library. In 1660 he was lodging in Sion College, London.
Soon after the passing of the second charter of the Royal Society, Waterhouse, who is described by Wood as ‘a cock-brain'd man,’ was elected a fellow (Thomson, Hist. Royal Soc. App. p. xxiii). By the persuasion of Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, he took holy orders in 1668, and afterwards became ‘a fantastical preacher.’ He died on 30 May 1670 at his house at Mile End Green, and was interred on 2 June at Greenford, Middlesex, where he had an estate.
He married, first, Mary, daughter and heiress of Robert Smith, alias Carrington, by Magdalen, his wife, daughter of Robert Harvey, esq., comptroller of the custom house to James I; and, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Richard Bateman of Hartington, Derbyshire, and London, by Christiana, daughter of William Stone of London. Waterhouse survived his second wife, who left him one son, Edward, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Bridget. The daughters alone survived him (Sphere of Gentry, ii. 67).
His works are:
- ‘A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men,’ London, 1653, 8vo.
- ‘Two Brief Meditations:
