Percy Ewing Matheson

For other uses, see Ewing Matheson.

Percy Ewing Matheson MBE (23 January 1859 – 11 May 1946)^[1] was a writer and honorary fellow of New College, Oxford.

Headstone of Matheson's wife in Headington Cemetery, Oxford

Matheson's wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, and predeceased her husband in 1935.

Selected works

• A skeleton outline of Roman history (1885)
• (transl.) The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli (1885)
• National ideals (1915)
• (transl.) Epictetus. The Discourses and Manual, together with fragments of his writings in 3 vols. (1916)
• Holy Russia and Other Poems (1918)
• The growth of Rome (1922)
• "James Joseph Sylvester" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.