Reginald Waterfield

alt=Waterfield, photographed in connection with the Synod of the Clergy of the Diocese of Hereford, 18 May 1927. Waterfield, photographed in connection with the Synod of the Clergy of the Diocese of Hereford, 18 May 1927. Reginald Waterfield (20 December 1867 – 8 March 1967) 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 (renamed Archdeacon of Cheltenham in 1919). 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 Reginald Lawson Waterfield (1900-1986), haematologist and astronomer, was his son.