Frederick George Waterhouse

Frederick George Waterhouse (25 August 1815 – 7 September 1898) was an English naturalist, zoologist and entomologist who made significant contributions to the study of the natural history of Australia.

Waterhouse was born near London, a son of solicitor J. W. Waterhouse. He was a keen naturalist and worked with his elder brother George Robert Waterhouse at the British Museum (Natural History). On 7 July 1852 he married Fanny Shepherd Abbott (c. 1831 – 7 August 1875), and soon after they sailed for South Australia in the Sydney, the first steamer to make the voyage. Another son lived at Mannahill and his fourth son, Stuart Abbott Waterhouse (died 24 July 1907 ), at the nearby Wadnaminga goldfields, where he was a prospector.

He is buried at St Georges Cemetery, Magill, South Australia, as are several other members of his family.

The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize is named after him.

In 1862, Ferdinand von Mueller name Spyridium waterhousei in his honour. Waterhouse collected the type specimens on Kangaroo Island in South Australia.

Dr Andrew Thomas, Australia's only astronaut and cosmonaut, is a great, great grandson.