Percy Ewing Matheson (23 January 1859 – 11 May 1946) ''The Times'', Monday, 13 May 1946; Issue 50450; p. 1; col B was an author and honorary fellow of

New College, Oxford New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at th ...

Matheson's wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, and predeceased her husband in 1935.

Selected works

* ''A skeleton outline of Roman history'' (1885

* (transl.) ''The Theory of the State'' by

Johann Caspar Bluntschli Johann Caspar (also Kaspar) Bluntschli (7 March 1808 – 21 October 1881) was a Swiss jurist and politician. Together with fellow liberals Francis Lieber and Édouard René de Laboulaye, he developed one of the first codes of international law a ...

(1885) * ''National ideals'' (1915

* (transl.) '' Epictetus. The Discourses and Manual, together with fragments of his writings'' in 3 vols. (1916) * ''Holy Russia and Other Poems'' (1918

* ''The growth of Rome'' (1922

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* * English writers 1859 births 1946 deaths People from Nottingham Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford {{England-writer-stub