Anthony Gervase Mathew (14 March 1905 – 4 April 1976) was a Catholic priest and British academic.
His father, Anthony Mathew, was a barrister, who elected to educate his two sons at home rather than send them away to boarding school.
[1] In 1924 Gervase followed his brother, David, to Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History under Sir Maurice Powicke.
Matthew's publications covered a range of fields, including classical antiquity, Byzantine art and history, historical theology, patristics, and fourteenth-century English literature and politics.
[3] While at Oxford, Mathew was a guest member of a literary group, the Inklings, which was also frequented by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, David Cecil, and Owen Barfield.