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Born | St. Pancras, London, England | 21 June 1880|||||||||||||||||
Died | 20 June 1957 Bournemouth, England | (aged 76)|||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Sports shooting | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Colonel Maurice Kershaw Matthews OBE, TD, DL (21 June 1880 – 20 June 1957) was a British army officer, businessman, and local politician. [1] He was also a sport shooter, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. [2]
In the 1908 Olympics he won a gold medal in the team small-bore rifle event, silver in the moving target small-bore rifle event, was fourth in the stationary target small-bore rifle event and 9th in the disappearing target small-bore rifle event. [3]
Matthews went into business as a valuer, rating assessor and estate agent, based in Tottenham Court Road. [4]
He held a commission as an officer in the Territorial Force and later Territorial Army, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the 1st City of London Regiment. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1930. [5] He was subsequently granted the brevet rank of colonel in the Royal Fusiliers, retiring in 1940. [6]
From 1931 to 1936 he sat on the London County Council, representing St Pancras South West as a member of the Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party. [7]
In 1935 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London. [8]
Matthews was sometime chairman and vice-president of the London Trustees Savings Bank, and in 1955 became vice-president of the Trustees Savings Banks Association. [1] He was awarded the OBE in the 1953 New Year's Honours. [9]
He died in Bournemouth in 1957, aged 77. [1]