Herbert Mather (1840–1916) was an Anglican bishop in the last decades of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th.[1] [2]
Mather was educated at St Andrew's University and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1867.[3] He began his ordained ministry as vice-principal and then the principal of Carmarthen Training College.[4] He then became chaplain to the Bishop of Newfoundland and incumbent of the cathedral. After this he was the rector of All Saints' Huntingdon and rural dean of Gartree.[5] From 1891 to 1897 he was Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness[6] when he was ordained to the episcopate[7] as the 4th Bishop of Antigua.[8] Returning to England he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Hereford until his retirement in 1912.