Thomas Lowther Mathews M.D. (1823 – 27 April 1901) was an Irish-born homeopathic physician who practiced for most of his career in Manchester. Mathews was formerly resident physician and senior house surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Mathews was a member of the Manchester Homoeopathic Medico-Chirurgical Society. He practiced at 82 Oxford Street, and 92, Oxford Street, Chorlton-Upon-Medlock, Manchester.

Thomas Lowther Mathews was born in Ireland in 1823, but his early life and career is otherwise unclear.

In 1853, Mathews was admitted L.M. in Glasgow. The following year, 1854, Mathews obtained his M.D. from the University of Glasgow, and in 1858 he was admitted as a licentiate of the Glasgow Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons.

Mathews was a Freemason, and was admitted into St John’s Lodge 334 at Gillygooley, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, in August, 1857.

In 1866, Mathews was Senior Physician at the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary on Bloom Street, where his colleagues included Charles Harrison Blackley, William Harris Cox, John Drummond, John Mason Galloway, Thomas Rayner, surgeon Charles Robert Fleury (1845 – 1907), and Dispenser W. B. Horner.

In July 1869, Thomas L. Mathews married Manchester-born Mary Sophia Rutt (1831 – 1915).

By 1871, Mathews was listed as an Honorary Medical Officer and Dispenser at the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary. His colleagues included Charles Harrison Blackley, William Harris Cox, John Drummond, Thomas Rayner, John Bower Morehouse, and surgeons Henry Kirk White Russen and Henry Douglas Bertram.

After retiring, Matthews and his wife relocated to the south of England.

Thomas Lowther Mathews died at his home, Norfolk House, Clevedon, Somerset, on 27 April 1901.

Of Interest:

John Mathews M.D., brother of Thomas Lowther Mathews, was also an homeopathic physician who practiced in Manchester. In 1850, John Mathews was House Surgeon at the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary, and physician at the Hulme Homeopathic Dispensary, where his colleague was William Perkins.

John Mathews died before 1863:

MATTHEWS, JOHN, Dunham Terrace, Stretford New Road, Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire; M.D., Glasgow, 1830; formerly House Surgeon to the Manchester Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary; now Physician to the Hulme Homœopathic Dispensary; Contrib. to the Monthly Journal of Homoeopathy, and Journal of Health and Disease.