Grace Waterhouse

Waterhouse died from a stroke in 1996. Her keys, collections, and cultures are still in use by researchers around the world.

In addition to working at the International Mycological Institute, Waterhouse was a member of the British Mycological Society, the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, and the Mycological Society of America. She was the editor of the journal Transactions of the British Mycological Society from 1959 to 1965 and served as the president of the British Mycological Society in 1961. She served as the president of the Lincolnshire Naturalist's Union in 1956.

Waterhouse started her career as a teacher at Eastbourne in 1942. She later took a teaching position at Lincoln Training College. In 1945, she returned to Royal Hollow College to continue to work on Phytophthora. In 1946, Waterhouse joined the International Mycological Institute where she worked until her retirement.

Grace Marion Waterhouse (1906-1996) was a British mycologist who worked for the International Mycological Institute in Kew for 20 years. She was an expert on the identification and taxonomy of Phytophthora plant pathogens. She gathered a large collection of Phytophthora cultures, and published two seminal works on the genus: a key to the species and a compilation of species descriptions.

Grace Waterhouse was born in South West London in 1906 to Bertram and Jane Waterhouse and was the youngest of three children. She had two brothers. She attended the Royal Holloway, University of London from 1924 to 1927 where she studied botany. After graduation, she worked in the Botany Department of Royal Holloway College for 12 years. In 1939, she was awarded a Master's degree for her work in Phytophthora. From 1937 to 1941, she studied zoology at Birkbeck College. In 1983, the University of London awarded her a doctorate in science.