Background
Colin Matthew was born on January 15, 1941 in Inverness, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom. He was a son of Henry Johnston Scott and Joyce Mary (McKendrick) Matthew.
Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Colin Matthew studied at Edinburgh Academy.
Sedbergh School, Sedbergh, England, United Kingdom
Colin Matthew studied at Sedbergh School.
Christ Church, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
In 1963 Colin Matthew received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Christ Church, Oxford.
(William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as th...)
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career - in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister - was consistently controversial and dramatic. This work, by a highly acclaimed Gladstone scholar, makes available in a single volume the story of one of the most powerful political personalities in British history. The book describes Gladstone's education, his political career from the early years as a Tory to his spectacular first administration from 1868 to 1874 and the remarkable private drama of sexual temptation and moral crisis, which from the 1840s underlay Gladstone's public life. Illuminating the keen ways in which Gladstone managed to keep himself at the "top of the greasy pole" and become one of the most successful political figures in Britain, the work shows how Gladstone's career and views helped shape parliamentary politics of the Victorian age.
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1986
(The ninth volume of this major scholarly achievement cove...)
The ninth volume of this major scholarly achievement covers some of the most dramatic years of Gladstone's eventful life: his political retirement, his return to lead the Bulgarian and Midlothian Campaigns against Disraeli's government, his recapture of power in 1880, and the crisis-ridden early months of his second government. Gladstone's daily diary, his personal correspondence, and the Cabinet Minutes, here published for the first time, offer a wealth of new insight into Gladstone's travels, interests, family, and business affairs as well as into the remarkable sequence of political events of his day.
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1986
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Volumes XII and XIII, the final volumes of W.E. Gladstone's diaries, depict the extraordinary energy of a remarkable octogenarian. They focus on his pursuit of "justice for Ireland" through the successful passage of a Home Rule Bill. There is also a wealth of material on imperial, foreign, domestic, and religious politics contained in the daily diary entries, the minutes of the Cabinets of the 1892-4 government, and the five hundred letters which accompany the entries for the governmental period. With Volume XIV, Indexes, the publication of this magisterial work of scholarship is complete.
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1994
(Volumes XII and XIII, the final volumes of W.E. Gladstone...)
Volumes XII and XIII, the final volumes of W.E. Gladstone's diaries, depict the extraordinary energy of a remarkable octogenarian. They focus on his pursuit of "justice for Ireland" through the successful passage of a Home Rule Bill. There is also a wealth of material on imperial, foreign, domestic, and religious politics contained in the daily diary entries, the minutes of the Cabinets of the 1892-4 government, and the five hundred letters which accompany the entries for the governmental period. With Volume XIV, Indexes, the publication of this magisterial work of scholarship is complete.
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1994
(Volume XIV contains comprehensive indexes to the entire t...)
Volume XIV contains comprehensive indexes to the entire thirteen volumes of W.E. Gladstone's diaries, comprising the Index of Persons, the Subject Index, and the Index of Gladstone's Reading. It is effectively an index to most of British public life from 1830 to 1896.
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1994
(The book tells the story of Gladstone's last three premie...)
The book tells the story of Gladstone's last three premierships and his dramatic political campaigns as he pursued his often controversial aims, particularly his mission to bring Irish Home Rule to Ireland. Political reform, Egypt, Gordon in the Sudan, and the 'Scramble for Africa' are other major themes. The treatment of Gladstone's political career is balanced by Colin Matthew's acute discussion of his full and active private life, including his enormous correspondence and prodigiously wide reading. The book ends with a moving account of Gladstone's death and state funeral, the last great set-piece of Victorian Liberalism.
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1995
(The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collecti...)
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000, from the ancient (explorer Pytheas of the 4th Century BC) to the modern (Princess Diana). For this new edition, all 36,000 lives from the first edition have been completely rewritten or revised-with over 13,500 new biographies added representing all historical periods and including 3,000 new entries on women.
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2004
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Colin Matthew was born on January 15, 1941 in Inverness, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom. He was a son of Henry Johnston Scott and Joyce Mary (McKendrick) Matthew.
Colin Matthew studied at Edinburgh Academy and later at Sedbergh School. In 1963 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Christ Church, Oxford. In 1970 he completed his doctoral degree at Oxford with a monograph on political maneuvering during the Gladstonian era.
In 1963 Colin Matthew moved to work as a teacher in Tanzania in East Africa. After three years he moved to Oxford. In 1970 he became lecturer in Gladstone Studies at Christ Church and assistant to the editor, M. R. D. Foot, on a project inaugurated many years earlier to publish in full the voluminous diaries of W. E. Gladstone. In 1972 Matthew succeeded Foot as the sole editor, and completed the project.
From 1978 to 1994, Matthew published volumes five through fourteen of Gladstone’s Diaries. The volumes' introductory chapters became the basis for the author's two-volume biography, Gladstone, 1809-1874 and Gladstone, 1875-1898, which earned him the Wolfson Prize for history in 1995.
In addition to this work, his duties as a professor at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, and a cherished family life, Matthew gave generously of his time to various departmental, university, and historio-graphical causes, serving as curator of the Bodelian Library, officer of the Royal Historical Society, and trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
As editor of the resurrected Dictionary of National Biography, Matthew oversaw what the London Times characterized as "the largest research project in the humanities ever undertaken in Britain." The massive project, more than half completed at the time of Matthew’s death, is set for publication in 2004.
(The ninth volume of this major scholarly achievement cove...)
1986(The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collecti...)
2004(The book tells the story of Gladstone's last three premie...)
1995(William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as th...)
1986(Volume XIV contains comprehensive indexes to the entire t...)
1994(Volumes XII and XIII, the final volumes of W.E. Gladstone...)
1994(Volumes XII and XIII, the final volumes of W.E. Gladstone...)
1994Colin Matthew was a shy and deeply private man, who could appear abrupt in company. Nonetheless, he insisted that any serious biographical notice must take account of private life, precisely because his own privacy was so important to him.
On December 16, 1970 Colin Matthew married Sue Ann Curry. They have three children: David, Lucy, Oliver.