Hubert Matthews

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Hubert John Matthews (18 June 1889 – 28 April 1971) was archdeacon of Hampstead from 1950[1] to 1961;[2] and then archdeacon Emeritus[3] until his death.[4]

Matthews was educated at Winchester College and St John's College, Oxford. Matthews originally intended to pursue a legal career; and was articled to Ellis Peirs & Co.in 1911.[5] By 1913, however, he was at Ripon College Cuddesdon preparing for ordination. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curate at St Martin-in-the-Fields then a Naval chaplain aboard HMS Malaya.[6] He was vicar of All Hallows, East India Docks[7] from 1921 to 1925; and then of Christ Church, Kensington from 1925 to 1930; St Jude's, South Kensington, 1930 to 1942; of St Marylebone from 1942 to 1954; and then of St Andrew Undershaft, 1954 to 1962.[8] He was also at various times chaplain to the Grocers' Company, rural dean of Marylebone; a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, and Chaplain to the Order of St John of Jerusalem.[9]

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1. ^ New Archdeacon of Hampstead. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 1 July 1950; pg. 6; Issue 51732
2. ^ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 20 September 1961; pg. 14; Issue 55191
3. ^ NPG details
4. ^ "HUBERT J. MATTHEWS OF ENGLISH CHURCH (Published 1971)". The New York Times.
5. ^ ‘MATTHEWS, Ven. Hubert John’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 8 May 2017
6. ^ Navy List January 1919 – Volume 1: (Corrected to 18 December 1918) p93 HMSO
7. ^ National ARchives
8. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1963/4 p 893: Oxford, OUP, 1967
9. ^ London Gazette 1 January 1946

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Preceded by

Charles Edmund Lambert

|  Archdeacon of Hampstead
1912–1920  | Succeeded by

Graham Leonard

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Archdeacons of Hampstead

* Brook Deedes
* Charles Lambert
* Hubert Matthews
* Graham Leonard
* Hubert Pink
* Fred Pickering
* Robert Coogan
* Peter Wheatley
* Michael Lawson
* Luke Miller
* John Hawkins

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