Researching Kenneth Mathews
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The name Kenneth means "handsome" and is of Gaelic origin.
Records of Kenneth Mathews on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Kenneth Mathews and the Mathews Genealogy
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Kenneth Mathews
Arthur Kenneth Mathews was Dean of St Albans from 1955 until 1963.
He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 11 May 1906 and educated at Monkton Combe School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he met his future brother-in-law Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor through the Balliol Boys' Club, of which they were successively president. He was ordained in 1933. His first post was as a Curate at Penistone after which he was Padre to the Tanker Fleet of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company and then Vicar of Forest Row. When World War II came he enlisted as a Chaplain in the RNVR during which he served on HMS Norfolk and was decorated twice for gallantry - in successful engagements against the German battleships Bismarck (in 1941) and Scharnhorst (in 1943). When peace returned he was Vicar of Rogate (1946–54) and Rural Dean of Midhurst (1950–54) before his elevation to the Deanery. After this he was Rector of St Peter’s, Peebles (1963–68) and Vicar of Thursley (1968-1976) before retiring in 1976. "A sailor's padre to the end", he died on 18 December 1992.
He was married twice: in 1936 to Agnes Elisabeth (Betty) Butler (who died in 1981) and in 1987 to Diana Goschen (who survived him). He had no children.
Source: Kenneth Mathews, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaKenneth Mathews (cricketer)
Kenneth Patrick Arthur Mathews (born 10 May 1926) is a former English cricketer. Mathews was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at West Worthing, Sussex, and was educated at Felsted School.
Mathews made his first-class debut for Sussex against Cambridge University in 1950. He made three further first-class appearances for the county in that season, against Surrey, Kent and Northamptonshire in the County Championship. He scored his maiden first-class half century against Kent, with a score of 51. The following season, while studying at Clare College, Cambridge, he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, making his debut for the university against Lancashire at Fenner's. He made eleven further first-class appearances for the university in that season, the last of which came against Oxford University in The University Match at Lord's. He scored 540 runs in his twelve matches for the university, at an average of 25.71, with a high score of 77, which came against Surrey. He also played golf and field hockey for the university, gaining a Blue in each. Mathews also made two further first-class appearances in 1951, for Sussex in the County Championship against Northamptonshire and Hampshire.
In addition to his university studies at Cambridge, Mathews also studied at Yale University in the United States. Returning to England, he made further first-class appearances, in 1954 for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University, scoring 74 in the Free Foresters second-innings, as well as for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University in 1955 and for the Free Foresters against the same opposition in 1956.
His father, John, also played first-class cricket.
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