PETER NIGEL RAYMOND WATERMAN

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PETER NIGEL RAYMOND WATERMAN Peter Nigel Raymond Waterman, born on October 10, 1933 in Southampton, England, younger brother of Anthony Michael Charles Waterman of Winnipeg, died in an hospice in Windsor, England on January 9, 2011 after a long struggle with cancer. Peter was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read English and played both cricket and hockey for Cambridge University. Between school and university he served as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. Upon graduation he joined the firm of Thomas Hedley, a subsidiary of Proctor and Gamble, where he was soon launched on a highly successful business career. From the early 1970s he held senior executive positions in a series of American multinational corporations in Holland, the USA and Britain, some as CEO. He retired as a vice-president of Hasbro, the American toy company. Throughout life Peter maintained his interest in sport, and though he soon had to give up hockey he continued to play cricket until mid-life and was elected to the Marylebone Cricket Club. He subsequently turned to golf, particularly in his retirement, where he made many friends and achieved a hole in one. He often visited Winnipeg and over the years built up a circle of Canadian friends, some of whom would visit him when on vacation in England. He was an opera-lover and bibliophile, a wine connoisseur, a staunch Conservative and a member of the Carleton Club. Peter was married twice: first to Prudence who bore him two children, Jonathan and Jane, and who died before his retirement; secondly to Janice who survives him. In addition to his second wife, children and grandchildren, he is survived by his brother, Anthony, and by his Canadian nephews and nieces to whom he was a kindly, generous and much-loved uncle.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jan 12, 2011