Notes
His biography on the college website (see references) states: ‘Michael was the eldest child of The Very Reverend Walter Matthews, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral and his wife, Margaret Bryan. He was born at Wandsworth and had a younger brother and sister.
Educated at Westminster, he Matriculated in 1933 having been awarded the Westminster Classics Scholarship. A keen cricketer, he was a right-handed batsman who played for the University from 1934-37. He graduated with a 2nd in Classics Mods and a 1st in Lit. Hum in 1935 and a 1st in Jurisprudence in 1939. He read for the Bar at Gray’s Inn and married Loveday Elizabeth Abbott at Wallingford, shortly after the outbreak of the war.
He was serving as a Sub-lieutenant on HMS Greyhound when he was killed in a bombing raid off Dunkirk on May 29th 1940. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial Panel 44, Column 2.and on the Memorial at Gray’s Inn.