George Matheson FRSE (27 March 1842 – 28 August 1906) was a Scottish minister and hymn writer and prolific author.

In his twentieth year he became totally blind, but he held to his resolve to enter the ministry, and gave himself to theological and historical study.

His books on Aids to the Study of German Theology, Can the Old Faith live with the New?, The Growth of the Spirit of Christianity from the First Century to the Dawn of the Lutheran Era, established his reputation as a liberal and spiritually minded theologian; and Queen Victoria invited him to preach at Balmoral.

In 1890 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the University of Aberdeen gave him its honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.

[7] All of which he commented 'I simply followed the impression of the moment' [8] His exegesis owes its interest to his subjective resources rather than to breadth of learning; his power lay in spiritual vision rather than balanced judgment, and in the vivid apprehension of the factors which make the Christian personality, rather than in constructive doctrinal statement.

In 1890, he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[2] upon the proposal of Sir William Thomson, Robert Flint, Hugh Macmillan and James Lindsay.

[10] He died suddenly of apoplexy (stroke) at Avenell House in North Berwick on 28 August 1906, aged 64, in Edinburgh and is buried with his parents in the Glasgow Necropolis.