Alexander Hetherwick

Alexander Hetherwick CBE (1860–1939) was a Scottish minister remembered as a missionary in Africa.

Based in Blantyre, Nyasaland he wrote extensively on local languages and also was a competent map-maker.

He originally studied Mathematics at Aberdeen University but after graduation (around 1880) decided to train for the ministry, despite having the highest marks in Mathematics[2] He was ordained by the Church of Scotland in the Kirk of St Nicholas in Aberdeen in 1883.

He requested transfer to do missionary work in Africa in 1885 and moved to the mission in Blantyre in what is now known as Malawi.

In conjunction with Robert Laws he founded the Church of Central Africa Presbytery in 1924.