Gregory Mathews

Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE FRSE FZS FLS (10 September 1876 – 27 March 1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England.

He was responsible for bringing trinomial nomenclature into local taxonomy, however he was regarded as an extreme splitter.

[4] His approach drew a hostile response from Archibald James Campbell, a leading Australian figure in birds at the time.

Dominic Serventy foretold that although a great many of these subspecies ceased to be recognised, future research would have to resort to the use of some of them if and when evidence supported their distinct status.

[6] In 1939, Matthews donated a small collection of Aboriginal ethnographic items from Australia to the British Museum.