Phil Hetherington

(March, 21 1918 – August 18 2013)

Phillip Sidney Hetherington was a UK fan originally from Cumbria and later Chorley near Manchester active from the 1930s into the early 1950s. He attended the Third British Convention in London in 1939 and was a member of the Manchester branch of the Science Fiction Association (SFA) and of the British Fantasy Library (BFL).

Hetherington had a letter published in Astounding Stories, August 1934, from an address in Carlisle, Cumbria. He later studied chemistry in Manchester and was present at the inaugural meeting of the Manchester SFA branch on May 22, 1938 where he was noted as being in a "scientific argument between Messrs. Clarke, Mayer & Hetherington that lasted intermittently until the meeting broke up".

In October 1939 he contributed "Credo of a 'Tory'" to Sam Youd's Fantast 7. It provoked Harry Turner's "Creed of an Atheist" in 9, published in March 1941.

He appears in J. Michael Rosenblum's Directory of Anglo-Fandom (1945) under his parents' address in Cumbria but is also marked "not in touch at the present moment". This was likely out-of-date information or only indicated a brief return as he was a member of the BFL in 1947 with a Chorley address and a "P. S. Hetherington, Chorley" is noted as a member of the Necon in 1951 although he seemingly did not attend. He did however attend Festivention in 1951. Ron Bennett's Directory of Science Fiction Fandom for 1955 also has him in Chorley but he is not in later editions.

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Person

1918—2013

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