Mathias, Benjamin Williams
(1772–1841)
- Gordon Goodwin
- , revised by David Huddleston
Extract
Mathias, Benjamin Williams (1772–1841), Church of Ireland clergyman, was born on 12 November 1772 in Dublin, the only surviving child of Benjamin Mathias, originally of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, who settled in Dublin about 1760 as a woollen cloth manufacturer; both parents died about 1782. He was educated at ...
