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Thomas Mathews was born in October 1676, at Llandaff Court (now The Cathedral School), Llandaff, Wales.
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The Answer And Defence Of Admiral Mathews, Late Commander In Chief Of His Majesty's Fleet In The Mediterranean Sea, To The Charge Exhibited Against Him
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Admiral Matthews's account of the action in the Mediterranean, as publish'd by authority, which Mr. Lestock in part only has thought proper to quote ... To which is added, M.D. Court's letter ...
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Admiral Mathews's Remarks On The Evidence Given, And The Proceedings Had, On His Trial, And Relative Thereto
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Thomas Mathews
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Mathews entered the navy in 1690, and rose to be captain of his own ship in 1703. By 1722 he had risen to command of a squadron against pirates in the East Indies, but in 1724 he retired from active service, aged 48. In 1736 he was appointed commissioner of the navy at Chatham, and in 1742 he was created vice-admiral of the red. His return to active service during the War of the Austrian Succession was not a success. In 1742 he was plenipotentiary to the king of Sardinia and the Italian states, and when the admiral in command in the Mediterranean retired, Mathews, then aged 66 he was appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean with orders to prevent the French and Spanish fleets leave Toulon. Unfortunately, he was barely on speaking terms with his second in command, Richard Lestock. In 1744, the combined fleet left Toulon. Mathews, with a slightly larger fleet quickly caught them, but the ensuing battle of Toulon (February 11, 1744) was a failure. Lestock refused to obey Mathews' orders, claiming not to have understood them, and the French and Spanish were able to escape without suffering serious damage. After the battle, Mathews resigned, but public outrage lead to a court martial, which lasted from 1745-1747. Both Mathews and Lestock, along with nine of their captains and four lieutenants were on trial. Despite being most to blame, Lestock was honourably aquitted (although he died in 1746), while Mathews was dismissed, although as he had already resigned this was of little personal conseqence, and he considered the result to have be due to parliamentary faction rather than the facts of the case.
Thomas Mathews died on October 2, 1751, in London.
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Admiral Matthews's account of the action in the Mediterranean, as publish'd by authority, which Mr. Lestock in part only has thought proper to quote ... To which is added, M.D. Court's letter ...
( The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration...)
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The Answer And Defence Of Admiral Mathews, Late Commander In Chief Of His Majesty's Fleet In The Mediterranean Sea, To The Charge Exhibited Against Him
( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)
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Admiral Mathews's Remarks On The Evidence Given, And The Proceedings Had, On His Trial, And Relative Thereto
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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Admiral Matthews's account of the action in the Mediterranean, as publish'd by authority, which Mr. Lestock in part only has thought proper to quote ... To which is added, M.D. Court's letter ...
Personality
Thomas Mathews was hot-headed, intemperate and incapable of managing the complex task of commanding a fleet in battle, which had led to the defeat.
Connections
In 1705, Thomas Mathews married Henrietta Burgess, the couple had a son, Thomas. Henrietta died about 1740, and Mathews remarried about 1745, to Millicent Powell.
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