death_date imagesize birth_date order term_start spouse article_title term_end name
26 february 1962 150px 8 february 1881 archdeacon of leicester 1938 ennis née beddoe cecil matthews -lrb- priest -rrb-
 1956 cecil lloyd matthews
cecil matthews -lrb- priest -rrb-

the venerable cecil lloyd matthews -lrb- 1881 -- 1962 -rrb- was an eminent anglican priest and author in the mid 20th century .
matthews was educated at monmouth grammar school and keble college , oxford .
in 1902-3 he was assistant master at the limes preparatory school shrewsbury and from 1903-1907 was assistant master at norwich school .
he was ordained in 1904 and began his career with a curacy at ss laurence and gregory , norwich after which he was priest in charge at st marks , bourne end from 1907 to 1911 .
he was then rector of clophill and when world war i broke out a temporary chaplain to the forces .
when peace returned he held incumbencies at hungarton , hinckley and knighton .
he was rural dean of christianity within the diocese of leicester from 1938 and from then until 1956 archdeacon of leicester .
he retired in 1956 .
