Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, PC, KC (13 January 1826 – 3 April 1913) was an English lawyer and Conservative politician.

Matthews was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1850 and practised on the Oxford circuit[citation needed] before becoming secretary to the Earl Marshal in 1864, a position he held for five years.

[citation needed] He returned to Parliament as Conservative member for Birmingham East in 1886,[3] and was immediately appointed as Home Secretary in Lord Salisbury's second government.

Queen Victoria reportedly demanded his inclusion after his performance in the Sir Charles Dilke divorce trial, which she approved of.

In 1887, he gave a seemingly flippant response in the House to a genuine question about the mistaken arrest of Miss Cass, who was accused of prostitution, which resulted in the government's defeat on the issue.

[citation needed] He died unmarried in 1913 at the age of 87 at his London home and was buried at Clehonger, Herefordshire, near Belmont Abbey.