Theobald Mathew (temperance Reformer) - Project Gutenberg Etext 13103
Theobald Mathew may refer to: *Theobald Mathew (temperance reformer) or Father Mathew (1790–1856), Irish temperance reformer *Theobald Mathew (legal humourist) or Theo Mathew (1866–1939), English barrister and legal humourist, great-nephew of Father Mathew *Sir Theobald Mathew (Director of Public Prosecutions) (1898–1964), English Director of Public Prosecutions, nephew of Theo Mathew *Theobald Mathew (officer of arms) Theobald Mathew may refer to: *Theobald Mathew (temperance reformer) or Father Mathew (1790–1856), Irish temperance reformer *Theobald Mathew (legal humourist) or Theo Mathew (1866–1939), English barrister and legal humourist, great-nephew of Fa ...

Theobald Mathew (temperance Reformer)
Theobald Mathew (10 October 1790 – 8 December 1856) was an Irish Catholic priest and teetotalist reformer, popularly known as Father Mathew. He was born at Thomastown, near Golden, County Tipperary, on 10 October 1790, to James Mathew and his wife Anne, daughter of George Whyte, of Cappaghwhyte. Of the family of the Earls Landaff (his father, James, was first cousin of Thomas Mathew, father of the first earl), he was a kinsman of the clergyman Arnold Mathew. He received his schooling in Kilkenny, then moved for a short time to Maynooth. From 1808 to 1814 he studied in Dublin, where in the latter year he was ordained to the priesthood. Having entered the Capuchin order, after a brief period of service at Kilkenny, he joined the mission in Cork. Statues of Mathew stand on St. Patrick's Street, Cork, by J. H. Foley (1864), and on O'Connell Street, Dublin, by Mary Redmond (1893). There is a Fr. Mathew Bridge in Limerick City, named after the temperance reformer when it was ...
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Theobald Mathew (legal Humourist)
Theobald Mathew (5 December 1866 – 20 June 1939), known as Theo Mathew, was a British barrister and legal humourist. Life and legal career Born in London, Mathew was the elder son of the Irish-born judge Sir James Charles Mathew and Elizabeth, ''née'' Biron, the daughter of a vicar. His great-uncle and namesake was the Irish temperance campaigner Father Theobald Mathew. His younger brother was the barrister and Labour MP Charles Mathew, while his sister Elizabeth was the wife of Irish Nationalist MP John Dillon. He was the uncle of Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Theobald Mathew and of Irish politician James Dillon. Mathew was educated at The Oratory School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained second-class honours in History in 1888. Like his father and brother, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1890, and practiced in the chambers of Joseph Walton, later a High Court judge. In 1896, Mathew became the editor of ''Commercial Cases'', a series of l ...
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Theobald Mathew (Director Of Public Prosecutions)
Sir Theobald Mathew, (4 November 1898 – 29 February 1964) was a British lawyer who served as Director of Public Prosecutions from 1944 to 1964, making him the longest-serving DPP. Mathew was born in London, the son of Anna and Charles James Mathew and grandson of Lord Justice Mathew. He was educated at The Oratory School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. During World War I, he served with the Irish Guards, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1918. He was appointed aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Godley in 1919. Mathew was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1921, but quit the bar to train as a solicitor in 1925, articling at Charles Russell & Co., whose senior partner, Sir Charles Russell, was his wife's uncle. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1928 and became a partner of Charles Russell & Co. In 1941, he joined the Home Office, and in 1942 became head of its Criminal Division. He was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions in 1944, hav ...
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