Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (born 1790)

Father Mathew

Irish Catholic priest and teetotalist reformer

Theobald Mathew was an Irish Catholic priest and teetotalist reformer, popularly known as Father Mathew. He was born at Thomastown, near Golden, County Tipperary, on 10 October 1790, to James Mathew and his wife Anne, daughter of George Whyte, of Cappaghwhyte. Of the family of…