Thom's Irish Who's Who/Matheson, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Edwin

MATHESON, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Edwin, P.C, Ireland, 1910; Knt. Bach., 1907; called to Irish Bar, 1875; Hon. LL.D., late Royal University of Ireland,. 1901; Entered Irish Civil Service by competitive examination, 1863; appointed Secretary to the General Register Office, Dublin, 1877; Assistant Registrar-General, 1879; Commissioner of Irish Census, 1881, 1891 and 1901: Registrar-General for Ireland, 1900-1909: President of Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1904-5; Examiner in Vital Statistics and Public Health Law in the University of Dublin, 1901-1909; elder son of the late R. M. Matheson, Clerk of the Privy Council for Ireland; m. 1866, the late Cherrie M. Hardy. Pubns.: Various works on Irish Names, Legal, Statistical and other Scientific Treaties. Res.: 44 Belgrave Square, Monkstown, Co. Dublin.