Charles James Mathew, CBE, KC (24 October 1872 – 8 January 1923) was a British barrister and Labour politician.
The second son of Sir James Charles Mathew, a Lord Justice of Appeal, Charles James Mathew was educated at The Oratory School, Edgbaston, Birmingham and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Mathew died, aged 50, after an operation, less than two months after his election, becoming one of the shortest-serving MPs in history.
A Roman Catholic, he married in 1896, Anna, daughter of James Cassidy, of Monasterevin, County Kildare.
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