MATY, PAUL HENRY, only son of Matthew Maty MD FRS, Principal Librarian, British Museum, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Louis Chevalleau, Sieur de Boisragon; b. 18 Dec 1744; adm.; Min. Can. 1757; Edward Gibbon (adm. 1747/8, qv), in a letter to his father of 14 Dec 1758, writes that “I saw at her [Mrs Porten’s] house Dr Maty’s son, a little odd cur, and by an unexampled generosity I tipped the boy with a crown, and the father with a coal of fire” (Private Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. Prothero, 1896, i, 18); KS (aged 13) 1758; Capt. of the School 1762; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1763, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1763, scholar 25 Jun 1764, Worts travelling scholar 1767; 11th Wrangler 1767; BA 1767; MA 1770; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1768, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1770-5; Grand Tour (Italy) 1767-8; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1770, priest 26 May 1771 (both London); Chaplain to David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont (S) (afterwards 2nd Earl of Mansfield) (qv), when British Ambassador at Paris; did not seek clerical preferment after 1776 owing to doubts about the Thirty-Nine Articles; FRS 16 May 1771, Foreign Secretary 13 Feb 1772 – 30 Jun 1774, Principal Secretary 30 Nov 1778 – 5 May 1778; Assistant Librarian, British Museum 1776-82, Under Librarian, Dept. of Natural History and Antiquities 1782; started The New Review 1782; compiler, A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, vols 1-70; author of two translations and a volume of sermons; lic. to m. 15 Sep 1775 Harriet, dau. of Joseph Clerke, Wethersfield, Essex; d. 16 Jan 1787. DNB.

MATTOCK, RICHARD, son of Richard Mattock, London; b.; at school under Busby three years (J. E. B. Mayor and R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb., i, 50); Min. Can. 1636; KS 1637; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 17 Oct 1639, aged 18, Bishop Williams scholar 6 Nov 1639, matr. 1639 (as “Mallock”).

MATTHEW, JOHN (alias MARLER, CHRISTOPHER); b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1588, adm. scholar 1589; BA 1592/3; MA 1596; Roman Catholic convert; English Coll., Valladolid, Spain, adm. 30 May 1599, aged 27; took oath 2 Feb 1600; ordained priest (RC) Sep 1602; sent to England early in 1603, but deported in following year after a period of confinement in the Gatehouse Prison, Westminster; set out from Douai 10 Dec 1604 to return to England.

MATHEWS, MAURICE, fifth son of Robert Mathews, Llanyblodwel, Shropshire, and Ursula ---; b.; adm.; KS 1665; failed to obtain election to either University 1667; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jul 1667, aged 17; m. 2 Jan 1667/8 Frances Lewis, St. Margaret’s, Westminster.

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

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].

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

MASON, ROBERT, eldest son of Robert Mason LLD, Croom’s Hill, Greenwich, Kent, Master of Court of Requests, and Judith, dau. of Sir Christopher Buckle, Burgh, Surrey; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1656; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1659, adm. pens. 10 May 1659, scholar 1659, martr. 1662; BA 1662/3; of East Greenwich, Kent; m.; d. 1666 (will of him or father proved PCC 5 Apr 1666).

Mason, Edmund Russell, son of Rev. Edmund Robert Mason, Vicar of Luton, Beds., by Lilly Marian, eldest daughter of Ebenezer R. Williams, of Handsworth, Staffs; b. April 2, 1889; adm. as K.S. Sept. 25, 1902; left . July 1907; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1907; Capt. 6th (Serv.) Batt. York and Lancs Regt. Sept. 28, 1916; served in Great War I; M.C. Nov. 25, 1916; d. Bermuda 1947.