Reginald Waterfield (20 December 1867 – 8 March 1967) was an Anglican priest[1] in the 20th century.[2]
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]
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.
Reginald Lawson Waterfield (1900-1986), haematologist and astronomer, was his son.[12]