Mathews, Edmund Douglass Jefferiss, son of Maj. Henry Edmund Mathews OBE TD FRIBA, The Royal Sussex Regt, and Florence Mabel, d. of Henry Jefferiss, merchant, of Sydenham, Kent; b. 10 July 1907; adm. Apr. 1921 (R); left Mar. 1926; Coll. of Estate Management Lond., ARICS 1929; an architect, ARIBA 1939; 2nd Lieut. Roy. Sussex Regt (TA) 1926, transf. RE 1938; France 1939-40 (Capt. and Adjutant), despatches 1940; GHQ Middle East 1940-1 (Maj.), despatches 1941; 10th Army and Persia-Iraq Force 1941-5 (Lieut.-Col.); TD 1941; OBE June 1945; demob. 1947; FRIBA 1947, FIArb. 1960; sen. partner Mathews Ryan Partnership, London and Gateshead, 1946-72; Vice-Pres. RIBA 1953-5, chairman ARUCK Council, retd 1972; m. 1st 1932 Alice Margaret, d. of Herbert J. Nicholson of Oxted, Surrey; 2nd 1969 Patricia Ann Russel, d. of Col. William Bruce OBE RAMC, of Edinburgh; d. Oct. 1992.

MATHEWE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).

Matheson, Iain William, son of John Matheson MB BChir, ofBlackheath, and Jessie May, d. of William Henderson of Aberdeen; b. 18 Nov. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (H); left July 1924; St Barth. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1930; FRCS 1935; consult. surgeon St Giles's Hosp. Camberwell; retd 1966; hon. consult. surgeon King's Coll. Hosp. Group; BBC "Brain of Brit­ain" 1970; m. 1 Oct. 1938 Helen Susanna, d. of Rev. Charles Ernest Cope, Vicar of Christ Church, Stone, Staffs.; d. 12 May 1992.

Matcham, Anthony Hugh Warton, son of Alfred Warton Matcham (qv); b. 14 July 1916; adm. Sept. 1929 (R); left July 1934; RA 1940-6 (Maj.), despatches (Med.) May 1946; adm. a solicitor July 1947; in practice in London; m. 23 Apr. 1947 Helena Margaretta, d. of Michael Francis Quann, farmer, of Clonmel, Eire; d. June 1998.

Matcham, Alfred Warton, son of Alfred Matcham, M.R.C.S., of Southwark, by Agnes, daughter of Alfred Warton, of Wandsworth Common, b. Feb. 11, 1886; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (R); left July 1903; adm. a solicitor Jan. 1909, practised in London; served in Great War I; Lieut. 2nd East Anglian Brigade March 16, 1912; R.F.A. Sept. 11, 1917; m. 1st Feb. 14, 1914, Jessie, daughter of William Nimmo Dewar, of St. Helier, Jersey; 2nd Oct. 16, 1930, Dilys Myfanwy Adey; d. Dec. 11, 1960.

Masterman, Neville Charles, son of Rt. Hon. Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman PC MP, and Lucy, d. of Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir Neville Lyttelton PC GCB GCVO, Chief of the General Staff, C-in-C Ireland, and Governor of Chelsea Hosp.; b. 28 Nov. 1912; adm. Sept. 1926 (G); left July 1931; Christ’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1931, BA 1934, MA 1954; asst. master Lindisfarne Coll. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 1935-7; lecturer in History Eorvos Kollegium Budapest, Hungary 1937-40; RA, Intell and Educ. Corps 1940-5 (Sgt); lecturer Univ. Coll. Swansea 1946-80; author of J. M. Ludlow: The Builder of Christian Socialism 1964; wrote extensively on Hungarian literature, history and politics; celebrated his hundredth birthday in 2012; m. 1947 Brenda, d. of John William Bywater Tongue of Tipton, Staffs; d. 10 Jan. 2019

MASTER, THOMAS, brother of Legh Master (qv); b. 3 Dec 1723; adm. Apr 1733; Min. Can. 1738; KS 1739; d. at school 14 Dec 1742. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

MASTER, BENJAMIN, seventh son of Rev. William Master DD, Prebendary of Canterbury, and Mary ---; bapt. Canterbury Cathedral 28 Oct 1612 (sic); adm.; KS (aged 14) 1629; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1633, matr. 29 Nov 1633, Westminster Student to 1649; BA 1637; MA 1640. [Perhaps Benjamin Masters (sic) who was Rector of Grafton Flyford, Worcs., by 1650; perhaps Benjamin Master who was Master, Gloucester Cathedral School 1659-60].

Massingham, Harold John, son of Henry William Massingham, of Bloomsbury, by his first wife, Emma, daughter of Henry Snowdon, of Norwich; b. March 25, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1901 (H); left (with Triplett) July 1906; Queen's Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1906; writer and journalist; member of the Board of Trade Committee for Administering the Plumage Act (Prohibition of Imports) 1921; author of a number of well-known books on natural history and the English country scene of which The English Countryman (1942) was perhaps the most important: 'As various as Cobbett, with something of Cobbett's obstinacy but without his eccentricity. ' (The Times Aug. 25, 1952); m. 1st July 30, 1914, Speedwell Gertrude, daughter of Arthur Black, of London; 2nd 1933, Penelope Anne, daughter of Alexander Josiah Webbe, of Chelsea; d. Aug. 22, 1952.

MASSINGBERD, THOMAS, eldest son of William Massingberd (formerly Meux), Gunby, Lincs., and his first wife Mary Thornborough; nephew of Thomas Meux (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1738/9 (Hutton's); left 1746; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 25 Jan 1747/8, aged 18, but did not matr.; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 3 Mar 1749/50; m. 23 Jan 1756 (IGI) Elizabeth, dau, of Alexander Emerson, Caistor, Lincs.; d. 1777.