Henry Matthew

For the Scottish physician and toxicologist, see Henry Johnston Scott Matthew. For the Scottish footballer, see Harry Matthew.

Henry James Matthew (15 January 1837 – 2 December 1898) was an eminent British Anglican colonial bishop in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.^[1]

• Christianity portal

Born in Cambridge, Matthew was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2][3] A Chaplain at Simla in 1877,^[4] he was appointed Archdeacon of Lahore in 1877.^[2] In 1888 he became Bishop of Lahore.^[5] An acclaimed preacher,^[6] he died in post, in Lahore, in 1898.^[7] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).