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John Hobson Matthews (1858–1914)

Autor(a) de The Mass and Its Folklore

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Nome padrão
Matthews, John Hobson
Nome de batismo
Matthews, John Hobson
Outros nomes
Matthews, J. H.
Data de nascimento
1858
Data de falecimento
1914-01-30
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
England
País (para mapa)
United Kingdom
Local de nascimento
Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Local de falecimento
Ealing, London, UK
Ocupação
historian
archivist
solicitor
Relacionamentos
Hobson, Emma (mother)
Gwyn-Hughes, Alice Mary (wife)
Pequena biografia
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor; b. 1858 at Croydon, his father being from S. Ives and his mother (Emma Hobson) from Great Grimsby. Although not a Welshman, Mathews was connected with Wales by residence and otherwise for so long a period and wrote so much concerning the country that he merits inclusion in this dictionary. Educated at schools at Blackheath and Cambridge, he worked for a while for a shipping firm in Malta. He entered the Roman Catholic church in 1877, became a solicitor in 1889, and practised at Cardiff for many years. He was a good linguist and learnt Maltese, Cornish, and Welsh. He it was who first drew attention to the carols of the Welsh Catholic martyr, Richard White (q.v.) (Catholic Record Society, iv). He edited Emynau Catholig, was the translator of Ffordd y Groes, and became a member of the Welsh Bardic Gorsedd. He acted as archivist to the Cardiff Corporation and was the editor of the six large volumes entitled Cardiff Records, being materials for a history of the County Borough from the earliest times (1898-1911). He also made a report, 1905, upon records belonging to the Monmouthshire County Council. He published A History of the parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack, and Zennor (London, 1892), and edited Martin Cock 's Guide to St. Ives (St. Ives, 1906). He had previously prepared Yr Hen grefydd a'r grefydd newydd. Sef dadl … am yr Eglwys Gatholig … Wedi ei gyfieithu i'r Gymraeg gan … J. H. Jones (Cardiff, 1889), and The Life and Memorials of Saint Teilo (Preston, 1893). He contributed to the transactions of societies, e.g. Cardiff Naturalists Society (see Transactions, xxxiii, for a study of place-names of the Cardiff district) and particularly to the Catholic Record Society, of which he was one of the original members (in 1906); many of the volumes of the latter contain valuable material relating to Catholics in south-east Wales, including Monmouthshire, contributed by him (see, e.g. vols. iv, v). The Vaughans of Courtfield: a study in Welsh genealogy (London, 1912) was based upon his examination of the family muniments of the Vaughans of Courtfield (qq.v.), a Herefordshire Catholic family (the muniments are now in N.L.W.). At the time of his death he was co-operating in the work of continuing Duncombe's History of Herefordshire. He m., 1892 , Alice Mary Gwyn-Hughes; they had four sons and two daughters. He d. at Ealing, 30 Jan. 1914. N.L.W. MSS. 2851-3 contain some typical examples of his ‘collectanea.’

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