Maurice Matthews

Colonel Maurice Kershaw Matthews OBE, TD, DL (21 June 1880 – 20 June 1957) was a British army officer, businessman, and local politician.^[1] He was also a sport shooter, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Maurice Matthews

Personal information
Born	(1880-06-21)21 June 1880 St. Pancras, London, England
Died	20 June 1957(1957-06-20) (aged 76) Bournemouth, England
Sport
Sport	Sports shooting
Medal record Men's shooting Representing  United Kingdom Olympic Games 1908 London Team small-bore rifle 1908 London Moving target

In the 1908 Olympics, he won a gold medal in the team small-bore rifle event, silver in the moving target small-bore rifle event was fourth in the stationary target small-bore rifle event, and 9th in the disappearing target small-bore rifle event.^[3]

Matthews went into business as a valuer, rating assessor, and estate agent based in Tottenham Court Road.^[4]

He held a commission as an officer in the Territorial Force and later Territorial Army, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the 1st City of London Regiment. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1930.^[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.^[7]

In 1935 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London.^[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.^[1] He was awarded the OBE in the 1953 New Year's Honours.^[9]

He died in Bournemouth in 1957, aged 77.^[1]