Roger Gaskell Hetherington

Sir Roger Gaskell Hetherington
Born	10 February 1876 Sherborne
Died	1952 Highgate
Nationality	British
Education	Highgate School
Spouse(s)	Honoria Ford
Children	Mary, Roger LeGeyt, Arthur Ford and Stephen Lonsdale
Parent(s)	William Lonsdale Hetherington, Mary Gaskell
Engineering career
Discipline	Civil
Institutions	Institution of Civil Engineers (President)

Sir Roger Gaskell Hetherington CB, OBE (10 February 1876, in Sherborne – 1952) was a British civil engineer and civil servant.

Roger Gaskell Hetherington was born in Sherborne, Dorset on 10 February 1876, the eldest son of William Lonsdale Hetherington and his wife Mary Gaskell, daughter of John Dakin Gaskell, a barrister of Highgate, London. His father was assistant Master at Sherborne School when he was born, but the family soon after returned to Highgate.

He entered Highgate School in 1889. After school he attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a half blue for rifle shooting. In spite of coming from a distinguished academic family Hetherington did not shine academically at this time, in fact he retained, to the end of this life, a copy of the Granta magazine (16 June 1897) that included the comment "I understand that Mr Hetherington of Trinity, is exceedingly annoyed at having missed the wooden spoon. It is one blot on an otherwise blameless career." This comment resulted from his coming bottom but one in the Mathematical Tripos. The bound copy of Granta is now held by his grandson, Roger Hetherington Macdonald.

Hetherington served as an officer in the 4th (Cambridge University) Volunteer Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment but resigned his commission as Captain on 24 November 1897. Hetherington returned to the British Army during the First World War when he was appointed temporary Inspector of Works in the Staff of the Royal Engineers with the honorary rank of Lieutenant on 14 April 1915.

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