Edward Waterhouse
Sir Edward Waterhouse (1535–1591) was an English-born Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland from 1586 to 1589[1] and Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1566 to 1567 and again from 1568 to 1569.
He was born in Helmstedbury, Hertfordshire, the youngest son of John Waterhouse of Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire, auditor to Henry VIII, and his wife Margaret Turner, daughter of Henry Turner of Blunt's Hall, Suffolk. According to family tradition the King saw Edward as a boy and predicted that he would grow up to be a man "fit to serve Princes". Edward was educated at Oxford, which he entered at the age of just twelve, and then joined the King's Court.
Career
He started his career as private secretary to
Meanwhile, Archbishop O'Hurley was Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1992.
Waterhouse as a reward for his services received numerous
Waterhouse was in 1586 appointed
Last years and family
Having long complained of his "weak body", he retired to his estate of Woodchurch in Kent, and died there in 1591. He had married three times, firstly, Elizabeth, daughter of George Villiers of Brooksby Hall, Leicestershire[2] and Joan Harrington, whom he divorced in 1578; secondly, Margaret Spilman, daughter of Thomas Spilman of Great Chart, Kent,[3] who died in 1587, and thirdly, Deborah, widow of a Mr. Harlackenden of Woodchurch, who survived him. He had no children and was succeeded by his grand-nephew Edward.
He is buried with his third wife Deborah at Woodchurch. In the family chapel in Hertfordshire, he erected a memorial to his second wife Margaret, as a token of his "dear love" for that "worthy lady".[4]
References
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Burke, John "Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland" 2nd Edition London 1844
- ^ "The Correspondence of Sir Phillip Sidney" Volume1 edited by Roger Kuin Oxford University Press 2012
- ^ Sir Henry Chauncy "Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire". Published by Benjamin Griffin London 1700