Who Founded PricewaterhouseCoopers?

Samuel Lowell Price (1821-1887) was an English accountant who opened a practice in London in 1849. In 1865 he went into partnership with Edwin Waterhouse and William Holyland, the firm that became Price Waterhouse & Co. That firm later opened in the US in 1890 and merged with Coopers & Lybrand in 1998 to form PwC.

His partners in the practice were William Hopkins Holyland and Edwin Waterhouse. Samuel Lowell Price was born in 1821.

William Cooper founded an accounting practice in London in 1854 that became Cooper Brothers & Co. as his brothers joined. The firm was known for insolvency and audit work, and in 1957 it combined with Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery and McDonald, Currie and Co to form Coopers & Lybrand, which merged with Price Waterhouse in 1998.

William Cooper was born in 1826 in England.

Cooper was born in 1826 and died in 1871.

Edwin Waterhouse (1841-1917) joined Samuel Lowell Price and William Holyland in 1865 in the partnership that became Price Waterhouse & Co. He became a leading figure in British accountancy and served as president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Waterhouse was born on June 4, 1841 and died on September 17, 1917. Edwin Waterhouse was born in 1841.

William M. Lybrand was an American accountant who, in 1898, formed Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery with brothers Adam A. Ross Jr. and T. Edward Ross and Robert H. Montgomery; the four had trained together at Heins, Lybrand & Co. in Philadelphia. In 1957 the firm, Cooper Brothers & Co (UK) and McDonald, Currie and Co (Canada) came together as Coopers & Lybrand, which merged with Price Waterhouse in 1998 to create PricewaterhouseCoopers.

William M. Lybrand was born in 1867.