Education
University College London.
University College London.
He is best known for having co-founded, with Samuel Lowell Price and William Hopkins Holyland, the accountancy practice of Price Waterhouse that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCoopers. 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.
Born at Oakfield, Aigburth, Liverpool, Edwin Waterhouse was the son of wealthy mill-owning Quaker parents.
Edwin Waterhouse was educated at University College School and then its associated university University College London. In 2007 the courtyard of Foxhill House, the Alfred Waterhouse designed building that now houses the University of Reading"s faculty of law, was refurbished with a grant from PriceWaterhouseCoopers in memory of Edwin Waterhouse.