Hubert Matthews

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{{Portal|Christianity}}Hubert John Matthews (18 June 1889 – 28 April 1971) was archdeacon of Hampstead from 1950New Archdeacon of Hampstead. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 1 July 1950; pg. 6; Issue 51732 to 1961;Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 20 September 1961; pg. 14; Issue 55191 and then archdeacon Emeritus[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp77033/hubert-john-matthews NPG details] until his death.{{cite web |title=HUBERT J. MATTHEWS OF ENGLISH CHURCH (Published 1971) |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/30/archives/hubert-j-matthews-of-english-church.html?_r=0}}

Matthews was educated at Winchester College and St John's College, Oxford. Matthews originally intended to pursue a legal career; and was articled to Ellis Peirs & Co.in 1911.‘MATTHEWS, Ven. Hubert John’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U157276, accessed 8 May 2017] By 1913, however, he was at Ripon College Cuddesdon preparing for ordination. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curate at St Martin-in-the-Fields then a Naval chaplain aboard {{HMS|Malaya}}.Navy List January 1919 – Volume 1: (Corrected to 18 December 1918) p93 HMSO He was vicar of All Hallows, East India Docks[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F196152 National ARchives] from 1921 to 1925; and then of Christ Church, Kensington from 1925 to 1930; St Jude's, South Kensington, 1930 to 1942; of St Marylebone from 1942 to 1954; and then of St Andrew Undershaft, 1954 to 1962.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1963/4 p 893: Oxford, OUP, 1967 He was also at various times chaplain to the Grocers' Company, rural dean of Marylebone; a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, and Chaplain to the Order of St John of Jerusalem.[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37417/page/203/data.pdf London Gazette 1 January 1946]