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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 570

In its obituary notice of the late Lord Justice Mathew, the London Daily Telegraph says: 'The debt of English law to Irishmen during the last half-century is far greater than might have been expected from the size of Ireland's population, or the English estimate of Irish character. No greater Chancellor has ever sat on-- the Woolsack than Cairns, to whom must be added Keating, Willes, Martin, Shee, Lord Russell of Killoween, Lord Macnaugliten, and the former Master of the Rolls, Lord Collins. Sir -James Mathew was thoroughly Irish, though he was -actually born at Bordeaux:, and both Lord Halsbury and, the late Lord Bowon may be reckoned, at least in part, as Irishmen.'