Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Revd. C J Waterhouse. Asst., Chaplain.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, good very fine and scarce £600-£800

Charles James Waterhouse was born in 1826 at St Pancras, London, and educated at Saint John's College, Cambridge, where he gained his B.A. in 1850, and an M.A. in 1854. He had previously been elected a Deacon in 1850 and gained the Priesthood in 1851, being ordained by the Bishop of Rochester. Waterhouse travelled out to India where he served as Assistant Chaplain at Lucknow from 1858 through to 1862, and was present with the field force at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny (Medal with clasp).

Waterhouse was then posted to Borneo being present at Subathoo from 1862 to 1863, and then to Singapore as the Chaplain to the Singapore Residency at Saint Andrew's Cathedral from 1863 to 1869, before returning to India having been appointed as Senior Chaplain to the Calcutta Ecclesiastical Establishment, serving temporarily in the Lahore Diocese. Posted to Simla from 1869 to 1871, he was then on furlough in England from 1871 to 1872, after which he returned to India becoming Chaplain at Mhow from 1872 to 1875, and at Delhi Camp from 1875 to 1876, followed by Jullunder from 1876 to 1879, and Delhi from 1880 to 1881, after which he returned to England becoming Curate at Egham in Surrey. He was still in this position at the time of Crockford's Clerical Directory of 1885. Prior to his death, he served as domestic chaplain to Lady William Godolphin Osborne Elphinstone at Tulliallan.

Waterhouse died in Edinburgh on 19 January 1890, from what appears to have been related to chronic complaints picked up in the tropics. Charles and his second wife, Fanny, had seven children, one of whom was the well known surgeon Sir Herbert Furnivall Waterhouse, whose Victory medal appeared at Dix Noonan Webb in December 2012 (Sir H. F. Waterhouse, B.R.C. & St. J.J.).