MATTHEW, John Valentine
John Valentine Reuben Matthew was born at 25 Bevan Street, Lowestoft Suffolk on 14 February 1922, son of Thomas Dove Matthew, a mechanical engineer, and Blanche Maud Sarah Cutler (18 July 1884-27 December 1961), who born at Beccles and died at 27 Bevan Street, Lowestoft. John was an associate member of the Ipswich Art Club 1943-1950 and exhibited four works in 1943 'In Cornwall', 'The Lime Pit', 'Much Wenlock' and 'Hockley Church', three in 1944 'Killin Bridge', 'Chapel Rock, Perran Forth' and 'Hockwold Evening' and one painting from Plantation Cottage, Brandon Road, Hockwold, Norfolk in 1945, 'Penn's House, Buckinghamshire' and was also an exhibitor at the Lowestoft Art Group at St John's Hall, Lowestoft in 1960 'Bishop's Bridge, Norwich'. He married at Bermondsey, London in 1952 Dorothy Hilda Flint (1914-2001). John Valentine Reuben Matthew died at Cambridge in April 2001.