Background
MATHEWS, William Arnold was born in 1839 in Hatfield, Yorkshire. Son of William Mathews, Doctor of Medicine, Justice of the Peace.
MATHEWS, William Arnold was born in 1839 in Hatfield, Yorkshire. Son of William Mathews, Doctor of Medicine, Justice of the Peace.
Uppingham; Corpus Christi College. Oxford.; Master of Arts.
Ordained, by Bishop Jackson of Lincoln, Curate of St. Peter’s, Old Radford, Nottingham, 1862. Vicar of Laughton, Lincolnshire, and a Diocesan Inspector of Schools, 1865. Vicar of Dacre, Cumberland, 1871.
Rector of Skelton, Cumberland, and Rural Dean of Greystoke, 1877. Vicar of St. Mary’s, Carlisle, 1879. Appleby, 1883; Rural Dean of Appleby, 1886.
Proctor in Convocation for the Archdeaconry of Carlisle. Rector of Bassingham since 1896; Honourable Canon of Carlisle.
Fishing, carpentry.
Spouse 1866, Caroline Sara Georgina,daughter of William H. Stuart of Lennoxville, Canada.