Career
Importantly, he was one of the original supporters of Blake"s first collection of work Poetical Sketches (1783). Blake later satirised the Mathews, and the Johnson Circle, in "An Island in the Moon". Anthony Stephen Mathew was the first incumbent of Percy Chapel, Charlotte Street, London starting in 1766 through 1804.
He was succeeded by Thomas Beaseley.Throughout his career in the church, he was rector of Glooston, Leicestershire from 1781 and the Duke of Buccleuch gave him the rectorship of Broughton, Northamptonshire in 1790 which he held until he died.
While in London, he was also a joint lecturer at Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, London. Henry William Mathew.
