Author: Mathew, John Morgan
Biography:
MATHEW, John Morgan (1770-1819: findmypast.com)
“Mathew” is either a variant spelling or, more probably, a simple misprint: most public records use the spelling “Matthew” for him. He was born on 20 Aug. 1770 and baptised John Morgan Matthew Matthew (sic) at Newick, Sussex, where his father was rector. His parents Joseph Matthew (Matthews on the marriage record) and Charlotte Morgan had married at Llanwrtyd, Brecon, Wales, on 16 Jul. 1765. Her brother Charles was a general in the British army in Bengal. Mathew accompanied him there in 1788 as an officer in the 24th Regiment and published Nine Letters from a Very Young Officer serving in India (1793) on his return. Watkins mentions two pamphlets of 1795 on army reform and attributes to Mathew a novel, Introspection, that had appeared under the name of his mother, Charlotte Matthew. (He adds Bath: a Poetical Adumbration but that was by John Matthews, q.v.) He settled in Homerton, London, and is recorded as a broker with a business on the Strand in 1800 but as bankrupt in 1804. He held the rank of Captain in the Middlesex militia and as of 1816 was a deputy lieutenant of the county. He died in 1819 and was buried at St. John’s, Hackney, on 13 Feb. No record of marriage has been found that can be assigned to him with any certainty. (findmypast.com 13 Apr. 2023; Watkins; EN 2; Aris’s Birmingham Gazette 27 Jan. 1800) HJ
Other Names:
- J. Mathew
- John Morgan Matthew