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Gilbert Waterhouse: Born Hipperholme, Yorkshire, 15 July 1888, son of Harold Waterhouse of Tarleton, Lancs; Educated at Pendleton Grammar School, Wigan Institute, Pendleton Higher Elementary School and Manchester Grammar School (Foundation Scholar 1900), St John's College Cambridge and the University of Berlin; first recipient of the Tiarks University German Scholarship, Cambridge, 1910; Assistant Lecturer in English, University of Lepzig, 1911-1914; Assistant Master, Manchester Grammar School, 1914-1915; Professor of German, University of Dublin, 1915-1932; Administrator, Government Scheme of Grants to ex-Service Students (Ireland), 1919-1925; Secretary, Royal Commission on the University of Dublin, 1920; Professor of German, Queen's University, Belfast, 1933-1953; Died 25 July 1977. Married 1920, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Wobert Woods, 3 daughters.
Publications: The Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Seventeenth Century, 1914; The War and the Study of German: a public lecture delivered in Trinity College, Dublin, on Tuesday, May 29th, 1917 , (1917); ed Franz Grillparzer: Weh' dem der lügt, (1923); The Prince of Peace, (1927); A Short History of German Literature, (1928); (trans) Clara Viebig: The Sleeping Army, (1929); (trans) General von Seeckt Thoughts of a Soldier, (1930); Simon van der Stel's Journal of his Expedition to Namaqualand (1685), (1932, supplement 1953).