Reginald Waterfield

For the British hematologist and amateur astronomer, see Reginald Lawson Waterfield.

Reginald Waterfield (20 December 1867 – 8 March 1967) was an Anglican priest^[1] in the 20th century.^[2]

Waterfield, photographed in connection with the Synod of the Clergy of the Diocese of Hereford, 18 May 1927.

Education and career

He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford,^[3] and was ordained in 1897.^[4] He was assistant master at Rugby School,^[5] then Principal of Cheltenham College, then Archdeacon of Cirencester (renamed Archdeacon of Cheltenham in 1919).^[6] In 1919 he became Dean of Hereford,^[7] a post he held until his retirement in 1947.^[8] He died in March 1967 aged 99 years and, following cremation, his ashes were buried in the Lady Arbour at Hereford Cathedral.^[9]

Freemasonry

Waterfield was a prominent Freemason, and served as Provincial Grand Master of Herefordshire from 1923 to 1946.^[10] The Dean Waterfield Lodge No 8089 in Hereford is named after him. He and his Bishop, Hensley Henson, were both founders of the Cantilupe Lodge No 4083,^[11] named after Thomas de Cantilupe of Hereford.

Family

Reginald Lawson Waterfield (1900-1986), haematologist and astronomer, was his son.^[12]