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Henry James Matthew (15 January 1837 – 2 December 1898) was an eminent British Anglican colonial bishop in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[1]
Born in Cambridge, Matthew was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2][3] A Chaplain at Simla in 1877,[4] he was appointed Archdeacon of Lahore in 1877.[2] In 1888 he became Bishop of Lahore.[5] An acclaimed preacher,[6] he died in post, in Lahore, in 1898.[7] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).