Edward Peter Mathers, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British author, editor, and newspaper proprietor
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About Edward Peter Mathers
- Edward Peter Mathers (19 August 1850, Edinburgh – 13 October 1924, Kensington) was a British author, editor, and newspaper proprietor.Edward P.
- Mathers was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and at the Edinburgh Institution for Languages and Mathematics.
- He was a journalist in England until 1878 when he emigrated from England to the British colony of South Africa.
- There he worked for various newspapers and became the founder-editor of the Natal Advertiser, a newspaper which was published until 1937.
- The Natal Advertiser publicized the prospects for wealth from gold mining and fully supported British imperialism.
- Mathers also wrote guides and handbooks for British migrants.
- In the 1880s he travelled throughout the Transvaal gold fields, wrote about them, and became the first journalist to foretell their great future prospects.
- He returned to England in 1888, founded the weekly newspaper South Africa, and inaugurated annual South African dinners in London.
- The newspaper South Africa was published from 1889 to 1961.In Durban on 6 August 1885 Mathers married Mary Augusta Powys, a daughter of R.
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- Powys who was a cousin of Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford.
- The marriage produced one son, Edward Powys Mathers, and three daughters.
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