Charles Skinner Matthews was known at Eton as Matthews
major
, his
minor
being his brother Henry, the author of
The Diary of an Invalid
, afterwards a Judge in the Supreme Court of Ceylon, who died in 1828. They were the sons of John Matthews of Belmont, Herefordshire, M.P. for that county (1802-6). C. S. Matthews became a Scholar of Trinity, Cambridge; Ninth Wrangler in 1805; First Members' Prizeman in 1807; Fellow of Downing in 1808. He was drowned in the Cam in August, 1811. He at the time contemplated standing as Member for the University of Cambridge. For a description of the accident, see letter from Henry Drury to Francis Hodgson (
Life of the Rev. Francis Hodgson
, vol. i. pp. 182-185). In the note to
Childe Harold