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Mathew Family (lost)
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- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 48533
- Description
- TABLET WITH INLAID MARBLES
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF TEN COLDSTREAMERS OF THE FAMILY OF MATHEW, OF TRESUNGER, CORNWALL. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR WILLIAM MATHEW, KNT. COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1679-1703. COMMANDING OFFICER 1703. SERVED DURING THE WARS OF KING WILLIAM III. COMMANDED THE GUARDS IN SPAIN AS BRIGADIER, UNDER THE DUKE OF ORMOND, AND WAS CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS 1704. DIED 1705. HIS COUSIN, COLONEL WILLIAM MATHEW, 1ST GUARDS 1679-95. MAJOR OF THE COLDSTREAM 1695-1702. WOUNDED AT NAMUR, 8TH JULY, 1695. GEORGE MATHEW, COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1713-15.-THE THREE SONS OF SIR WILLIAM MATHEW. EDWARD MATHEW, COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1702-4 DIED 1712. ABEDNEGO MATHEW, COLDSTREAM GUARDS, 1704-7. LOST IN H.M.S. NORWICH 1710. WILLIAM MATHEW, COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1703-10. SERVED IN THE WAR OF SPANISH SUCCESSION, AND WAS SEVENTEEN YEARS CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS. DIED 1752.-TWO SONS OF THE LAST MENTIONED. ABEDNEGO MATHEW, COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1742-52. GENERAL EDWARD MATHEW, COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1746-79. SERVE IN FRANCE AND GERMANY DURING THE SEVEN YEARS WAR 1758-61-2. COMMANDED THE GUARDS AS BRIGADIER DURING THE AMERICAN CAMPAIGN 1776-7-8-9-80. EQUERRY TO THE KING GEORGE III, 1782, AND CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF THE LEEWARD AND WINDWARD ISLANDS. DIED 1805, AGED 78. GEORGE MATHEW, GREAT GRANDSON OF SIR WILLIAM, COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1776-81. SERVED IN THE AMERICAN CAMPAIGNS 1770-80. DIED 1846, AGED 86. AND HIS SON, SIR GEORGE BUCKLEY MATHEW, C.B., K.C.M.G., COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1833-6. AFTERWARDS GOVERNOR OF THE BAHAMAS, AND HER MAJESTY'S MINISTER IN BRAZIL. DIED 1879, AGE 72.
- War
- Military Service
- Maintenance History
- 1944: MEMORIAL WAS LOST WHEN THE CHAPEL WAS DESTROYED BY A FLYING BOMB
Components
- Tablet
Made from: Unknown
Condition: Lost
- THE GUARDS' CHAPEL by WILKINSON, N 189-90 Source: Image Library IWM PRINTED BOOKS Published:THE CHISWICK PRESS LTD 1938 NEW SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N11