Walter Edmund Matthew (26 February 1848 – 19 February 1889) was an Anglican archdeacon in India in the second half of the 19th century."Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries", The Morning Post, London, Saturday, 23 February 1889; pg. ; Issue 36408
Matthew was born in Cambridge and educated at Merchant Taylor'sMERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, 20 December 1865; pg. 5; Issue 28712. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900 and St John's College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1866, graduating BA in 1870 and MA in 1873.University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Friday, 16 May 1873; pg. 12; Issue 27691 He was ordained deacon in 1871, and priest in 1872.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p804: London, Horace Cox, 1885 After a curacy at Christ Church, CamdenVictorian Web he was Archdeacon of Colombo and the incumbent at St Paul, KandyGravestone Photos from 1875. He died, in post, at Talawakelle.
Two of his sonsSelwyn Family also became clergymen: Herbert Edmund Matthew,Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 p866 London: OUP, 1929 who died at Keswick in 1944;Deaths. The Times (London, England), Monday, 27 June 1949; pg. 1; Issue 51418 and Leonard Arthur Matthew,1929 Crockford's (ibid) who died at Sydney in 1964.The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW) Thursday, 18 June 1964, p 22
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