Matthew 8.1.1797 at John King's and in 1796 list for 1797 / 21.2.1799 Matthew adv at theatre
One of the three Mathew brothers, immortalised by Cruikshank as the three Mr Wiggins's, probably the eldest Francis James 1768-1833 styled Viscount Mathew (as son of Earl of Landaff), MP for Tipperary, Whig sympathies, married 10.7.1797 Gertrude Cecilia daughter & coheiress of John Latouche, (her cousin Elizabeth (died 1788) had married Robert Butler 3rd Earl of Lanesborough, the eldest son of John King's wife Lady Lanesborough) See History of Parliament. Or his brother Hon Montague James 1773-1819 unmarried also an Irish MP. The youngest brother was George Toby Skeffington died 1832.
'Matthew'
In Godwin's Diary, 'Matthews' is first mentioned as attending a dinner at John Thelwall’s house on 10 Dec. 1794, shortly after Thelwall’s acquittal from the charge of treason.
On 15 Aug. 1795 Godwin writes ‘Wordsworth and Matthews’, in this case most likely referring to William Mathews (one 't'), the poet's Cambridge University contemporary and would-be collaborator on their journal 'The Philanthropist'.
'Matthews' entries after February 1801 cannot be to William Mathews, as he had emigrated to the West Indies where he died.
Evidently Godwin usually spelled the name two 'ts', and his references to 'Matthews' are likely to more than one person; if Matthews on 15 August was William Mathews, the Matthews