Charles Henry Waters

(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.)

Waters, Charles Henry is a son of the late Mr. Edward Waters, farmer, "Castell-prydydd," near Abergavenny, where he was born in 1861, and has been educated in public schools and privately. He commenced his career in the teaching profession, at the Yarteg Hill Schools, Monmouthshire, serving as an articled pupil teacher for five years (under the old code), and subsequently as an assistant master for some time. Relinquishing the teaching profession in 1883 with good credentials, he entered the offices of Messrs. John Vipond and Company Limited, Yarteg Hill Collieries, on his appointment by the firm as book-keeper, and in 1885 accepted a more responsible position at Cardiff, as chief accountant and cashier to Messrs. the Aber and Ynisawdre Coal and Coke Company Limited, thus securing altogether an all-round practical experience in accountancy, in secretarial work, and of general business. Eventually, on the recommendation of the latter company's auditor, in August, 1886, he became associated with the late Mr. Crawford W. Slade, senior partner of the old-established firm of chartered accountants, Messrs. Crawford W. Slade & Co., of Newport, Cardiff and London, in connection with their South Wales business, first as an audit clerk, and latterly as managing audit clerk, and during nearly seven years' strenuous service (during which time he acquired an extensive and varied knowledge in all branches of accountancy and auditing) he left the firm in May, 1893, for the purpose of commencing public practice on his own account as a professional accountant and auditor. During the intervening years he has secured business of a high-class character as auditor to various public companies and private firms in South Wales and Monmouthshire, notably as an elective auditor to the County Borough of Newport, as joint auditor to the Rhymney Iron Company Ltd., of London, Cardiff and Rhymney; and as company's auditor to the Brynmawr and Blaina Gas Company, appointments which he has now held continuously in each case for over the past twenty years. When the new Technical Schools in connection with the County Borough of Newport were first inaugurated he acted for two seasons as teacher of the book-keeping classes, both of the elementary and of the advanced, but pressure of other business engagements compelled him to relinquish the duties. He was elected a Fellow of the Central Association of Accountants in 1906, and at the annual general meeting of the Association, held in London last year, was appointed to a seat on the General Council of that professional body in succession to the late Mr. Joseph Stanfield, F.A.A., J.P., formerly Lord Mayor of Cardiff. He has, too, been mainly instrumental in establishing a local branch of the Central Association of Accountants (the South Wales and Monmouthshire District Centre), the local members selecting him as the first president of the Centre. During the war he actively allied himself with the Newport Volunteer Training Corps—afterwards the Monmouthshire Yolunteer Regiment. He lost a favourite nephew during the war, who died at Salonika from wounds received in action. Address : Station Chambers, Cambrian road, Newport, and at 24 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff.