Matthew, Professor Henry Colin Gray (1941–1999)

Matthew was notable for his role as editor of two vast historical projects – the Gladstone diaries and the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

 

Forenames:

Henry Colin Gray

Surname:

Matthew

Title:

Professor

Dates:

1941–1999

Institutions:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Royal Historical Society
University of Oxford (Christ Church)

Significant posts:

Founding editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Influences:

Stuart, Charles

Themes:

Nineteenth century

Biographies:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Bibliography

• Bibliography from Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)

Personal papers

• National Register of Archives

Significant publications

• Colin Matthew, Gladstone (2 vols., Oxford, 1986–95)
• The Gladstone Diaries, ed. M. R. D. Foot and Colin Matthew (14 vols., Oxford, 1968–94)
• Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain: Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew, ed. Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman (Oxford, 2006)

Other reading

• Lawrence Goldman, 'Focus on the Oxford DNB: a monument to the Victorian age : continuity and discontinuity in the Dictionaries of National Biography', Journal of Victorian Culture, 11, 1 (2006), 111–32

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