William Tidd Matson

MATSON, William Tidd. b. West Hackney, London, 17 October 1833; d. Portsea, Hampshire, 23 December 1899. He was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge and the Agricultural and Chemical College, Kennington, London. He became the Secretary of the European Freedom Committee in 1853. In the same year he joined the Methodist New Connexion, later becoming a Congregationalist. He trained for the ministry at the Cotton End Institute, and was ordained in 1860 to successive pastorates at Havant, Gosport, Sleaford (Lincolnshire), Rothwell (Northamptonshire), Portsmouth, and Sarisbury Green (near Rowlands Castle, Hampshire), retiring in 1897. He published A Summer Evening Reverie, and Other Poems...