Thomas Owen Wethered

Thomas Owen Wethered (26 November 1832 – 22 February 1921) was an English Conservative Party politician and brewer who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880.

[1] His father was said to be "descended from the well-known family of that name, so long in residence at Ashlyns, Great Berkhamsted," and first recorded there in 1431.

[3] The young Wethered was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Lewis Carroll.

[4] In 1849, his grandfather Thomas Wethered died at the age of 88, leaving a fortune of £100,000 and a brewery producing 24,500 barrels of beer a year which owned a hundred public houses in Buckinghamshire.

[8] Their eldest daughter, Edith Ethelston, married John Danvers Power, MVO, a barrister; their second daughter, Constance Anne Ellen, married William George Steuart-Menzies of Culdares, DL JP, of Arndilly House, Craigellachie, Banffshire.