English non-fiction writer (1870–1957)
Herbert Newton Wethered (1870–1957) was a versatile English author, who wrote in a number of areas of non-fiction.[ 1]
He was born on 14 November 1870, the third son of Henry Wethered, a colliery owner ofClifton, Bristol . His father Henry, who died in 1916, was the son of William Wethered and was born inLittle 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 marriedHandel Cossham . Cossham andH. O. Wills ultimately controlled the colliery.[ 2]
Newton Wethered was educated atClifton College from 1880 to 1888 and graduated B.A. fromCorpus Christi College, Oxford in 1892.[ 1] W. Graham Robertson , a friend, trying to recover the colour print process employed byWilliam Blake .[ 3]
From Giotto to John: The Development of Painting (1920)[ 1] [ 4] Medieval Craftsmanship and the Modern Amateur (1923)[ 1] The Architectural Side of Golf (1929), with Tom Simpson[ 5] A Short History of Gardens (1933),[ 6] Marie-Luise Gothein .[ 7] The Mind of the Ancient World: A Consideration of Pliny's Natural History (1937)[ 8] On the Art of Thackeray (1938)[ 1] The Four Paths of Pilgrimage (1947)[ 1] Design for Golf (1952), with Tom Simpson[ 9] Selected Essays of E. V. Lucas (1954), editor[ 10] The Curious Art of Autobiography, from Benvenuto Cellini to Rudyard Kipling (1956)[ 11] In 1890, Wethered married 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 golfersRoger Wethered andJoyce Wethered .[ 1] [ 12] [ 13]
^a b c d e f g Oxford), Corpus Christi College (University of; Flanagan, Neil A. (1988).Biographical Register 1880-1974 . The College. p. 111.ISBN 9780951284407 ^ "Western Daily Press obituary of Henry Wethered" . Retrieved9 November 2017 .^ Sung, Mei-Ying (6 October 2015).William Blake and the Art of Engraving ISBN 9781317314264 . Retrieved10 November 2017 . ^ Sung, Mei-Ying (6 October 2015).William Blake and the Art of Engraving ISBN 9781317314264 . Retrieved9 November 2017 . ^ Wethered, Herbert Newton; Simpson, Tom (1929).The Architectural Side of Golf ISBN 9780598430076 . Retrieved9 November 2017 . {{cite book }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) ^ Wethered, Herbert Newton (1933).A Short History of Gardens . Retrieved9 November 2017 . ^ Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim (1997).Nature and Ideology: Natural Garden Design in the Twentieth Century ISBN 9780884022466 . Retrieved9 November 2017 . ^ Wethered, Herbert Newton (1937).The Mind of the Ancient World: A Consideration of Pliny's Natural History . Retrieved9 November 2017 . ^ Wethered, Herbert Newton; Simpson, Thomas (1952).Design for Golf . Retrieved9 November 2017 . ^ Watson, George; Willison, Ian R. (1969).The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature . Retrieved9 November 2017 . ^ "Wethered, Herbert Newton, 1869-, The Online Books Page" . Retrieved9 November 2017 .^ s:Page:Oxford men and their colleges.djvu/732 ^ Steel, Rev. Donald. "Wethered, Roger Henry".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/31821 . (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.)
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