| Admin_History | Born in Leeds on 2 December 1903, Fr Henry Waterhouse SJ received his education from Leeds Catholic College and later from Leeds University, where he studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and specialised in modern languages (English and French). Upon graduating from the university in 1924, he taught for a year at a local elementary school for boys, before entering the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1925. After finishing his Novitiate at Manresa and Theology studies at Heythrop, he was ordained on 9 September 1936, followed by a Tertianship in Münster, Germany.
Fr Waterhouse taught at the Corby School, Sunderland from 1938 to 1944. He took his Final Vows on 2 February 1943. Over the next decade he dedicated his time to pastoral work in industrial and working-class parishes, first as Minister in Manchester, then as Rector of the College in Liverpool and finally in Leigh, Lancashire. In 1958, he was appointed Principal of Plater College in Oxford, a position he held for four years, and Director of the Catholic Social Guild (CSG), whose executive committee was also the college’s governing body. Under his leadership, the college saw a successful relocation to the city of Oxford, expansion in student base and great improvement in the accommodation provision, and continued to support the organisation and running of the CSG’s annual summer schools.
Upon leaving Plater College in 1967, he spent two years conducting a sociological survey of the Province, before being appointed Minister of House and Parish Priest at St Aloysius’, Oxford. He spent his final years working in the parish of St Mary’s-on-the-Quay, Bristol. Fr Waterhouse died 14 July 1980 at Silverdale, Lancashire. His funeral was held at St Wilfrid's, Preston and his Requiem Mass at St Mary's, Bristol. |