Charles Mathews

(1776-1835)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835 NRA: Mathews Charles (1776-1835) Actor DNB: Mathews, Charles (1776-1835), actor LBT ID: ChMathe1835 VIAF ID: 57418276 LOC ID: n84135273	B/BAP: 1776-06-28 DIED: 1835-06-28
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Comic actor at the Haymarket and Covent Garden theaters; from 1818 he gave a series of performances under the title of Mr. Mathews at Home.
REFERENCES TO Charles Mathews: R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, 27 October 1811 in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Found 1: ¶ 4 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 12 April 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 21 Charles Lamb to James Gillman, 2 May 1821 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., [February? 1822] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth, 24 April 1822 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter VI Sir Walter Scott to Jane Scott, 20 March 1825 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 8 Charles Lamb to Barron Field, 4 October 1827 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 62 Mr. Dubois. Found 1: ¶ 1 Mr. Mathews. Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ 9 “Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries” in New Monthly Magazine NS 22 (January 1828) 84-96 Found 2: ¶ 52 ¶ 54 [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 1: ¶ 18 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Literary Chronicle (2 February 1828) 72-74 Found 1: ¶ 33 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Monthly Review S3 7 (March 1828) 300-12 Found 1: ¶ 27 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [11 October 1828] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Thomas Moore [June 1829] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 11 [John Gibson Lockhart], “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Quarterly Review 44 (January 1831) 168-226 Found 1: ¶ 142 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. VI.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 37 (February 1833) 214-222 Found 1: ¶ 8 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1808-09 Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter VII 1809-10 Found 2: ¶ 32 ¶ 33 Chapter X 1814-15 Chapter XI 1815 Found 2: ¶ 25 ¶ 26 Chapter II 1817 Found 1: ¶ 19 Chapter V 1818 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter VI 1818 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter VII 1822 Chapter VIII 1822 Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ n1 Chapter I 1825 Chapter IV 1825 Found 2: ¶ 68 ¶ 87 Chapter V 1826 Found 6: ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ 30 John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 20 April 1843 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 6 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. IV” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (June 1847) 137-43 Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 6 ¶ 21 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. V” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (July 1847) 290-97 Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 5 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VI” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (August 1847) 461-68 Found 1: ¶ 1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VIII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (October 1847) 227-40 Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 3: The Sun Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. 15: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. 19: James Perry Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ 13 Mr. Tompkisson Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 8: My Own Life Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. 13: Finance Found 1: ¶ 10 Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 35 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Charles Lamb IX Found 1: ¶ 2 Horace & James Smith II Found 3: ¶ 15 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 117 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 23 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 3 Found 1: ¶ 16 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 12 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VIII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 2 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 4: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 13 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 37 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 10: 1821-24 Found 1: ¶ 18 Chapter 18: 1837-43 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1821 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Letters: 1827 Found 1: ¶ 1 Letters: 1828 Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 9 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) HORACE SMITH Found 1: ¶ 18