Arthur Matthews (1848 – 1911) was a founding professor at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
He later obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from the University of London.
[2] He built up at a Land Survey Department while at St. Andrew's College and trained many of South Africa's early land surveyors, including four Surveyors General.
[5] One of these was Matthews, who became professor of mathematics and chairman of the university senate.
[6] Matthews retired from Rhodes University in 1910 and died in the Cape Province in 1911.