Charles Owen Waterhouse


Charles Owen Waterhouse was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
Waterhouse was an Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, London. He wrote the Buprestidae part of Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin's Biologia Centrali-Americana and very many papers on the worldwide beetle collections of the museum, describing hundreds of new species.
He was President of the Royal Entomological Society from 1907 until 1908, and was appointed ISO in the 1910 Birthday Honours. Waterhouse died in February 1917 at the age of 73.