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Authorised form of nameWaterhouse; Edward (1619 - 1670); heraldic writer
Dates1619 - 1670
NationalityBritish
Place of birthGreenford, Middlesex, England, Europe
Date of birth1619
Place of deathMile End Green, London, England, Europe
Date of death30 May 1670
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Greenford, Middlesex, England, Europe (2 June 1670)
OccupationAuthor; Clergyman, Church of England
Research fieldHeraldry
ActivityEducation:
Emmanuel College, Cambridge (admitted 1635); LLD (Lit Reg 1668)
Career:
Published multiple works on history, heraldry and some philosophical themes, including a historical survey of learned men's contributions to human affairs (1653); wrote on societal commentary and social mobility (1663; 1665); Ordained (1668)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election29/07/1663
ProposerJohn Wilkins
RSActivityCommittee and panels:
Committee for Agriculture [Georgical] (1664)
Other Royal Society activityProposed on 22 July 1663 and admitted on 5 July 1663. Presented a manuscript on a bezoar (1663); Reported on other's meteorological observations (1663)
RelationshipsParents: Francis Waterhouse and Bridget Powell
Married: 1) Mary Smith, alias Carrington; 2) Elizabeth Bateman
Children: Elizabeth Bateman, Bridget Bateman, and Edward Bateman
OtherInfoWaterhouse's particular interest lay with mutability of fortunes in particulary well-known lines of ancestry. On of his last works on this topic was published in 1667 as 'A Short Narrative of the Late Dreadful Fire in London'. His manner of sociological analysis can be regarded in the same vein as the work of political economists, such as John Graunt (FRS 1663). During the Interregnum years, he was resident in Oxford, apparently for the use of the public Bodleian library there.
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn; Hunter; ODNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/37262673
CodeNA4979
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
CLP/15i/6Paper, 'Concerning an occidentall bezoar stone of an unusuall bigness' by unknown author1663
EL/H1/89Letter, from John Haselocke to Edward Waterhouse1663
EL/C1/1Letter, from Joshua Childrey to Edward Waterhouse, dated at Sarum dated at Sarum2 January 1663
CLP/15i/6/1Manuscript, 'Concerning an occidentall bezoar stone of an unusuall bigness' by unknown author1663
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