Henry Colin Gray Matthew FRHistS (15 January 1941 – 29 October 1999) was a British historian and academic.
[2] In 1963, Matthew moved to work as a teacher in what is now Tanzania in East Africa, where he met his American wife Sue Ann Curry (born 1941).
Matthew began first an uncompleted diploma in politics and economics, and then a doctorate on the imperial wing of the Liberal Party in the 1890s and 1900s, completed in 1970.
[3] When Oxford University Press proposed a revision of the Dictionary of National Biography in the early 1990s, Matthew's work on the Gladstone Diaries recommended him for the position.
[6] St Hugh's College also maintains a travel fund in Matthew's name available to all students at the University of Oxford to undertake historical research.