George Matcham (1753 – 3 February 1833) was an English civil servant of the East India Company, traveller and brother-in-law of Admiral Lord Nelson.
He was educated at Charterhouse School in England; entering the civil service of the East India Company, he subsequently became their Resident at Baroche.
On the cession of Baroche to the Maratha Empire in 1783, Matcham retired from the Indian civil service, and he made his way to England by an overland route, much of which he had previously explored.
[1][2] His travels included Persia, Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, the Greek islands, Hungary, and other countries.
He kept journals of his travels, and an account of a journey from Aleppo to Baghdad was published with the second edition of James Capper's Observations on the Passage to India (1784), and bound together with Eyles Irwin's Voyage up the Red Sea.