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Brian Matthews (priest)

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Brian Benjamin Matthews OBE[1] (1914–1997)[2] was Archdeacon of the Riviera from 1977 to 1982.

Matthews was educated at Hertford College, Oxford and ordained in 1938. After a curacy in Aldershot he was a Chaplain in the RNVR[3] from 1941 to 1946. After another curacy at Tewkesbury Abbey he was Chaplain at Denstone College from 1948 to 1958. He then served at Monte Carlo, Gibraltar and Valletta.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ London Gazette
  2. ^ Oxford University Gazette, obituaries
  3. ^ NLS
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980-1982 p671 Oxford, OUP, 1983 ISBN 0-19-200010-1