Maurice Matthews

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Maurice Matthews
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Maurice Kershaw Matthews , OBE DL (born June 21, 1880 in London , † June 20, 1957 in Bournemouth ) was a British marksman and officer .

successes

Maurice Matthews took part in the 1908 Olympic Games in London in four disciplines with the small bore rifle. In the competition for the moving target he scored like three other competitors 24 points and was declared runner-up after checking the targets behind John Fleming and in front of William Marsden , which gave him the silver medal. On the disappearing target, he finished ninth, in the prone position he just missed another medal win in fourth place. In the team competition, in which only three teams competed, the British prevailed with 771 points against Sweden and France and thus became Olympic champions . In addition to Matthews, Harold Humby , Edward Amoore and William Pimm were part of the British team. Matthews was the best British shooter with 196 points.

Matthews worked as a real estate agent, surveyor and architect in London. He served in the Territorial Army , where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the 1st City of London Regiment until he retired in 1940 . He was also Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the County of London . From 1931 to 1936 he was a member of the London County Council . In 1948 he was appointed Renter Warden of the Beizerzunft and was also temporarily chairman of the London Trustees Savings Bank . In 1952 he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire . In 1955, he was named vice president of the Trustees Savings Bank Association .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34946, HMSO, London, September 13, 1940, p. 5535 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 39732, HMSO, London, December 30, 1952, p. 14 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
personal data
SURNAME Matthews, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthews, Maurice Kershaw (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British marksman
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1957
Place of death Bournemouth , UK