Colonel Maurice Kershaw Matthews OBE, TD, DL (21 June 1880 – 20 June 1957) was a British army officer, businessman, and local politician.

[3] Matthews went into business as a valuer, rating assessor, and estate agent based in Tottenham Court Road.

[5] He was subsequently granted the brevet rank of colonel in the Royal Fusiliers, retiring in 1940.

[6] From 1931 to 1936, he sat on the London County Council, representing St Pancras South West as a member of the Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party.

[8] Matthews was sometime chairman and vice-president of the London Trustees Savings Bank, and in 1955 became vice-president of the Trustees Savings Banks Association.