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 of Clifton, Bristol.
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.
[2] Newton Wethered was educated at Clifton College from 1880 to 1888 and graduated B.A.
[1] Around 1905 he made experiments with a friend, W. Graham Robertson, a friend, trying to recover the colour print process employed by William Blake.