Walter Edmund Matthew (b Cambridge 26 February 1848 – d Talawakelle 19 February 1889) was an Anglican archdeacon in India in the second half of the 19th century.
[1] Matthew was educated at Merchant Taylor's[2] and St John's College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1866,[3] graduating BA in 1870 and MA in 1873.
[5] After a curacy at Christ Church, Camden[6] he was Archdeacon of Colombo and the incumbent at St Paul, Kandy[7] from 1875.
Two of his sons[8] also became clergymen: Herbert Edmund Matthew,[9] who died at Keswick in 1944;[10] and Leonard Arthur Matthew,[11] who died at Sydney in 1964.
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