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THEOBALD MATHEW (1790-1856)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 886 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THEOBALD See also:MATHEW (1790-1856)  , Irish See also:temperance reformer, popularly known as See also:Father See also:Mathew, was descended from a See also:branch of the See also:Llandaff See also:family, and was See also:born at See also:Thomas-See also:town, See also:Tipperary, on the loth of See also:October 1790 . He received his school See also:education at See also:Kilkenny, whence he passed for a See also:short See also:time to See also:Maynooth; from 18o8 to 1814 he studied at See also:Dublin, where in the latter See also:year he was ordained to the priesthood . Having entered the Capuchin See also:order, he, after a brief time of service at Kilkenny, joined the See also:mission in See also:Cork, which was the See also:scene of his religious and benevolent labours for many years . The See also:movement with which his name is most intimately associated began in 1838 with the See also:establishment of a See also:total See also:abstinence association, which in less than nine months, thanks to his moral See also:influence and eloquence, enrolled no fewer than 150,000 names . It rapidly spread to See also:Limerick and elsewhere, and some See also:idea of its popularity may be formed from the fact that at See also:Nenagh 20,000 persons are said to have taken the See also:pledge in one See also:day, 100,000 at See also:Galway in two days, and 70,000 in Dublin in five days . In 1844 he visited See also:Liverpool, See also:Manchester and See also:London with almost equal success . Meanwhile the expenses of his enterprise had involved him in heavy liabilities, and led on one occasion to his See also:arrest for See also:debt; from this embarrassment he was only partially relieved by a See also:pension of £300 granted by See also:Queen See also:Victoria in 1847 . In 1849 he paid a visit to the See also:United States, returning in 1851 . He died at See also:Queenstown on the 8th of See also:December, 1856 . See Father Mathew, a See also:Biography, by J . F . Maguire, M.P .

(1863) .

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