Reginald Waterfield

Reginald Waterfield was an Anglican priest in the 20th century.

Education and career

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

Freemasonry

Waterfield was a prominent Freemason, and served as Provincial Grand Master of Herefordshire from 1923 to 1946. 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, named after Thomas de Cantilupe of Hereford.

Family

, haematologist and astronomer, was his son.