Nathan Wetherell

{{short description|English theologian and academic administrator}}

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Nathan Wetherell D.D. (1726–1808) was an academic administrator at the University of Oxford. He was Dean of Hereford, Master of University College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/vc/position/previousvice-chancellors/|title=Previous Vice-Chancellors | publisher=University of Oxford, UK|access-date=July 18, 2011}}{{cite book | title=The Oxford University Calendar |publisher=University of Oxford |year=1817|pages=27–28 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7kUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA27|chapter=Vice-Chancellors from the year 1660 |access-date=July 18, 2011}}

Nathan Wetherell was originally from Durham.

As Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, he set up the Oxford Paving Commission in 1771 to supervise paving, cleaning and lighting in the city of Oxford.M. G. Brock & M. C. Curthoys, [https://books.google.com/books?id=3bDAWHbXgi4C&pg=RA1-PA445&lpg=RA1-PA445&dq=Nathan+Wetherell Nineteenth-century Oxford], page 445.

He supported anti-Calvinism, along with David Durell and Thomas Randolph.Nicholas Tyacke, [https://books.google.com/books?id=McvcmiZ6h8gC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=Nathan+Wetherell Aspects of English Protestantism, C. 1530–1700], page 24.

Wetherell was a longtime friend of Samuel Johnson.

A memorial to Wetherell was erected in University College Chapel at Oxford University sculpted by John Flaxman.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.150