 1848 - 1889 (40 years)
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| Name |
Walter Edmund Matthew |
| Prefix |
The Ven. |
| Born |
26 Feb 1848 |
Cambridge  |
| Christened |
12 Apr 1848 |
Cambridge |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Archdeacon of Colombo |
| Occupation |
1871 |
| Appointed curate of Christ Church, St. Pancras |
| Died |
19 Feb 1889 |
Talawakelli, Ceylon |
| Age |
40 years |
| Buried |
Mahayaya protestant cemetery, Kandy, Ceylon |
| Person ID |
I73 |
The Matthew Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
21 Jun 2017 |
| Father |
David Matthew, b. 1809, Southwark , d. 1880 (Age 71 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Cranwell Rowton, b. Abt 1814, Cambridge , d. 1893, Hampstead (Age 79 years) |
| Married |
22 Mar 1836 |
St. Mary the Great, Cambridge |
| Census |
1851 |
59, Finchley Rd, Marylebone, London. |
| Census |
1861 |
3, Loundoun Rd, Marylebone, London |
| Census |
1871 |
58, Belsize Park, St. John's, London |
| Census |
1881 |
52, Belsize Park |
| with Edward and Alice |
| Family ID |
F12 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Ada Mary Thompson, b. Abt 1853, St. Helens, Lancashire , d. 18 Apr 1925, Hampstead, London (Age 72 years) |
| Married |
18 Nov 1875 |
Christ Church, Albany Street, Camden, Middlesex |
| Census |
1891 |
45, Barton St., Fulham |
| Census |
1901 |
45, Barton St., Fulham |
| Children |
| | 1. Reginald Walter Matthew, b. 1879, Ceylon , d. 8 Nov 1928, 21, Riverview Gardens, Castelnau, Barnes (Age 49 years) |
| + | 2. Alfred Churchill Matthew, b. 01 Feb 1881, Ceylon , d. 08 Jun 1965, Winchester, Hampshire (Age 84 years) |
| | 3. Rev. Leonard Arthur Matthew, b. 1882, Kandy, Ceylon , d. 1964, Tonbridge, Kent (Age 82 years) |
| + | 4. Mary Katherine Matthew, b. 1884, Ceylon , d. 1914, Conway, Caernarvonshire (Age 30 years) |
| + | 5. William Roland Matthew, b. 1885, Ceylon , d. 23 Jul 1950, Wokingham, Surrey (Age 65 years) |
| | 6. Rev. Herbert Edmund J Matthew, b. 1887, Ceylon , d. 1949, Cockermouth, Cumberland (Age 62 years) |
| | 7. Edith Margaret Matthew, b. 1889, Dunster, Nr Minehead , d. 1969 (Age 80 years) |
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| Last Modified |
3 Nov 2015 |
| Family ID |
F28 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Matthew, Walter Edmond, 3s. David, of Cambridge, arm. St. John's Coll., matric. 25 June, 1866, aged 28 ; scholar 1869-73, B.A. 2870, M.A. 1873, archdeacon of Colombo, and incumbent of St. Paul's, Kandy , 1875. See Crockford, & Robinson , 338.
- Inscription from his memorial in St. Paul's, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Sacred to the memory of the Ven. Walter Edmund
Matthew, M.A., formerly Scholar of St. John's
College, Oxford ; for thirteen years Archdeacon
of Colombo and last Colonial Chaplain of Kandy.
Here as pastor for ten years and in Colombo for
three, but present by lore and sympathy in every
part of Ceylon, he was a worker together with God.
It was his aim by God's grace to help in forming
of many races and languages one Church, and by
his own zeal and love to kindle in others both
Clergy and Laity such zeal and love as to establish
the Church only the more firmly when the aid of
the State was withdrawn. To his exertions are
mainly due both the enlargement and adornment
of this House of God and the endowment fund of
this Parish. Wise of head, strong of hand, warm
of heart. His death was felt as a public loss.
But he is blessed, for he died in the Lord and rests
from his labours. Born 25th February, 1848, died
19th February; 1889.
"The late Venerable Walter Edmund Matthew,
M.A. Oxford, Scholar of St. John's College, third son
of David Matthew, of Cambridge, was born February
25, 1848, and married, November 18, 1875, at Christ
Church, St. Pancras, Ada Mary, daughter of the late
Wm. Thomson, C.E., of St. Helen's, Lancashire.
He was in Ceylon from 1875 to 1889, in February of
which later year he died of fever and blood poisoning."
Archdeacon Matthew came out with Bishop
Copleston in 1875. He was a very energetic man, and
had much influence.
[1]
- A register of the scholars admitted into Merchant Taylors' School : from A. D. 1562 to 1874
Andrew's Exh. of St. John's Oxf. 1866; 2nd C. Mod 1868; Casberd Sch. 1869; B.A. (2nd C.) 1870; Denyer and Johnson's Theol. Sch. 1871; Archdeacon of Colombo, 1875;
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| Sources |
- [S1] List of Inscriptions on monuments in Ceylon (pub. 1913), J. Penry Lewis, Note 1226.
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