Background
Theobald Mathew was the son of solicitor Robert Mathew and Joan Young, and great-nephew of Sir Arthur Cochrane, Clarenceux King of Arms from 1928 to 1954.
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Theobald Mathew
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He was educated at Downside and Balliol College, Oxford.
Career
Mathew was a Green Staff Officer at the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969. He was appointed Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary on 24 March 1970, and promoted to Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary on 9 October 1978. Mathew reigned from this post in 1997.
He had also been deputy treasurer of the College of Arms from 1978.
In 1998, he died at West Mersea, Essex, aged 56. Theobald Mathew was granted armorial bearings on 5 March 1981.
These are blazoned
(Arms) Or a lion rampant and a chief engrailed of three points flory sable
(Crest) A heathcock sable beaked and legged gules supporting with the dexter claw an ostrich feather gold.
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December 24, 1998 (aged 56)