[2] Her father was Frederick William Thomas an Oxford Professor of Sanskrit and Oriental Languages.
[1] Her major field of research was the prehistoric Mycenaean civilisation, with an emphasis on Laconia and Sparta.
In 1939 she joined the cipher office at the British Legation in Athens and later worked for the Political Intelligence Centre in Cairo.
She later moved to Birmingham, where she was made an Honorary Lecturer and Research Fellow of Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham (1966–1971)[2][1] Waterhouse contributed several articles in the Annual of British School of Athens and conducted surveys of the treasures of the Myceneans, Ithaca and Minoa.
"[1] Her last publication, in 1996, was From Ithaca to the Odyssey, a summary of the many archaeological explorations by members of the British School at Athens, and the influence of Odysseus and his stories on the history of ancient Greece.