School. The enrolment increased from just over 100 in 1896 to 350 in 1906 and 422 in 1915. Academic results at the public examinations during his term were outstanding and the school was admitted to the GPS in 1906. Waterhouse retired as Headmaster of Sydney High in 1915 on medical advice. His doctors had given him only two years to live. He lived to spend 25 years in retirement. Scientific interests One of his retirement hobbies was fossils and his name is perpetuated in the Nuculana Waterhousei which he discovered. Waterhouse was also interested in geology and ornithology. During his appointment in Maitland he was associated with Professor Sir Edgeworth David and his work on the Greta coal seam. See also Jabez Waterhouse – his father Walter Waterhouse – his son Joseph Waterhouse – his uncle References Staff of Newington College People educated at Newington College 1940 deaths 1852 births