Newton Wethered


Herbert Newton Wethered was a versatile English author, who wrote in a number of areas of non-fiction.

Life

He was the third son of Henry Wethered, a colliery owner of Clifton, Bristol, born 14 November 1870. His father Henry, who died in 1916, was the son of William Wethered and was born in Little Marlow, moving to the Bristol region around 1854, where he worked with his father and two brothers, Edwin and Joseph, in the coal business. Their sister Elizabeth married Handel Cossham: Cossham and H. O. Wills ultimately controlled the colliery.
Newton Wethered was educated at Clifton College from 1880 to 1888 and graduated B.A. from Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1892. Around 1905 he made experiments with W. Graham Robertson. a friend, trying to recover the colour print process employed by William Blake.

Works

Wethered married in 1890 Marion Emmeline Lund, daughter of James Lund, and sister of Reginald William Lund, a college contemporary. They had a son and a daughter, who were the golfers Roger Wethered and Joyce Wethered.