page_title: David Waterlow
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: David Waterlow / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of Islington North constituency within the London County Council area, as it existed from 1918 to 1949.
context_page_description: David Sydney Waterlow, was a British Liberal Party politician and businessman.
context_section_description: He travelled round the world in 1879. He joined the firm of Waterlow and Sons, Ltd, printers, in 1880. He retired from the firm in 1898 but subsequently became Chairman in 1922. He was the Director of the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company, Ltd, from 1885–1924. He was a member of the London County Council, sitting for North St Pancras for the Liberal backed Progressive Party, from 1898 to 1910. He sat as Liberal MP for Islington North from 1906 to December 1910.  
  Waterlow remained active in politics: he was selected as Liberal prospective candidate for the parliamentary constituency of Mid Norfolk in 1912, but did not contest an election there. He also made two unsuccessful attempts to return to the London County Council: at Fulham in 1913 and Islington North in 1922.
  He was Chairman of Governors at the United Westminster Schools in 1914. He became a Justice of the Peace in London in 1916. David Waterlow's sister, Mrs. Ruth Homan, was also politically active, being a member of the London School Board for Tower Hamlets. 
  He died at his home in Leatherhead, Surrey, in 1924, aged 66, following complications after surgery. He was buried at Brookwood Cemetery.
caption: Islington North in the London County area 1918-49
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