Percy Ewing Matheson (23 January 1859 – 11 May 1946) ''The Times'', Monday, 13 May 1946; Issue 50450; p. 1; col B was a writer and honorary fellow of

New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...

Matheson's wife Elizabeth was a daughter of

Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895), was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary (1868–1873) and as Lord President of the Council. Origin Lord Abe ...

, and predeceased her husband in 1935.

Selected works

* ''A skeleton outline of Roman history'' (1885

* (transl.) ''The Theory of the State'' by

Johann Caspar Bluntschli Johann Caspar (also Kaspar) Bluntschli (7 March 1808 – 21 October 1881) was a Swiss jurist and politician. Together with fellow liberals Francis Lieber and Édouard René de Laboulaye, he developed one of the first codes of international law a ...

(1885) * ''National ideals'' (1915

* (transl.) ''

Epictetus Epictetus (, ; , ''Epíktētos''; 50 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in ...

. The Discourses and Manual, together with fragments of his writings'' in 3 vols. (1916) * ''Holy Russia and Other Poems'' (1918

* ''The growth of Rome'' (1922

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* * English writers 1859 births 1946 deaths People from Nottingham Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Members_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire {{England-writer-stub