Matthew Nathan

Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable
Sir Matthew Nathan
GCMG PC (Ire)
Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Sir Matthew Nathan GCMG PC (Ire)
20th Governor of the Gold Coast
	In office; 17 December 1900 – 9 February 1904
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Frederick Mitchell Hodgson
Succeeded by	John Pickersgill Rodger
13th Governor of Hong Kong
	In office; 29 July 1904 – 29 July 1907
Monarch	Edward VII
Colonial Secretary	Sir Francis Henry May
Preceded by	Sir Henry Arthur Blake
Succeeded by	Sir Frederick Lugard
7th Governor of Natal
	In office; 2 September 1907 – 23 December 1909
Monarch	Edward VII
Preceded by	Sir Henry Edward McCallum
Succeeded by	Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen
Under-Secretary for Ireland
	In office; 12 October 1914 – 3 May 1916
Monarch	George V
Preceded by	James Dougherty
Succeeded by	Robert Chalmers
13th Governor of Queensland
	In office; 3 December 1920 – 17 September 1925
Preceded by	Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams
Succeeded by	Sir John Goodwin
Personal details
Born	3 January 1862; Paddington, London, England
Died	18 April 1939 (aged 77); West Coker, Somerset, England
Resting place	Willesden Jewish Cemetery, England
Alma mater	Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Profession	Soldier, colonial administrator
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	彌敦
Simplified Chinese	弥敦
Jyutping
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	nei4 deon1

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Matthew Nathan GCMG PC (Ire) (3 January 1862 – 18 April 1939) was a British soldier and colonial administrator, who variously served as the governor of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Natal and Queensland. He was Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1914 to 1916, and was responsible, with the Chief Secretary, Augustine Birrell, for the administration of Ireland in the years immediately preceding the Easter Rising.