[2] He was the son of shoe manufacturer Henry Penkett Mather and his wife Elizabeth Douthwaite.

Ebenezer married his first wife, Caroline Eliza Lough, in Islington on 4 September 1872.

[5] The mission went on to help many during WW1 and WW2 as scores of fisherman's trawlers were used to help merchant convoys and defense against attacks from the air as well as mine sweeping.

According to the Bibliography of Australian Literature,[6] Ebenezer wrote a fiction piece called 'The Squatter's Bairn'.

Ebenezer Mather retired to Canvey Island, where he published his biography, Memories of Christian Service.