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Herbert Mather
Herbert Mather (1840 – 30 July 1922)[1] was an Anglican bishop in the last decades of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th.[2][3] Mather was educated at St Andrew's University and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained:[4][5] he was made deacon on 17 March 1867, by Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St Davids, at Abergwili parish church.[6] He began his ordained ministry as vice-principal (1865—67) and then the principal (1867–68) of Carmarthen Training College;[1][7] he then became Curate of Newland until 1870.[3] In 1870, he became both chaplain to Edward Feild, Bishop of Newfoundland; and incumbent of the cathedral. He moved to Nova Scotia two years later, serving there as Chaplain to Hibbert Binney, Bishop of Nova Scotia, til 1873.[3] He made his first return to England in 1874,[1] becoming the rector of All Saints' Church, Huntingdon (1874–77), then Vicar of Loddington, Leicestershire (1877–93) and rural dean of Gartree (1886–89).[8][3] From 1891 to 1897 he was Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness[9] when he was ordained to the episcopate[10] as the fourth Bishop of Antigua.[11] Returning to England again in 1904, he was an Assistant Bishop of Hereford (assisting John Percival) from 1905 until his retirement in 1912.[3] While at Hereford, he was also Rector of Hampton Bishop (1908–12) and Chancellor of Hereford Cathedral (1906–16);[3] at the age of 75, he retired to Beckenham.[1] He was in charge of the vacant Diocese of Accra, 1912–1913. He married in 1872; and became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).[3] References
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