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Percy Ewing Matheson

Percy Ewing Matheson

British scholar and author (1859–1946)

For other uses, see Ewing Matheson.

Percy Ewing Matheson MBE (23 January 1859 – 11 May 1946)[1] was a writer and honorary fellow of New College, Oxford.

Headstone of Matheson's wife in Headington Cemetery, Oxford

Matheson's wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, and predeceased her husband in 1935.

Selected works

  • A skeleton outline of Roman history (1885)
  • (transl.) The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli (1885)
  • National ideals (1915)
  • (transl.) Epictetus. The Discourses and Manual, together with fragments of his writings in 3 vols. (1916)
  • Holy Russia and Other Poems (1918)
  • The growth of Rome (1922)
  • "James Joseph Sylvester" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

References

  1. [1]
    The Times, Monday, 13 May 1946; Issue 50450; p. 1; col B


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