Lemuel Mathews
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Lemuel Mathews, D.D. was a Welsh Anglican priest in Ireland[1] during the second half of the 17th[2] and early 18th century.[3]
Mathews was born in Swansea and educated at Lincoln College, Oxford.[4] He was Chaplain to Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor from 1661 to 1667.[5] Taylor appointed him the incumbent at Glenavy. In 1666 he became Prebendary of Carncastle in Lisburn Cathedral;[6] and the following year Archdeacon of Down.[7] He became Vicar General of the diocese in 1690.[8] In 1693 a Special Visitation deprived him of all his ecclesiastical offices.[9] Mathews then spent many years trying to regain his positions,[10] but was only successful with his prebend at Carncastle.[11]
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