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Name	Gregory Macalister Mathews
Born	10 September, 1876 Merrygoen, New South Wales, Australia
Died	27 March, 1949 (aged 72) Winchester, Hampshire, England
Cause of Death	cancer (not specified)
Related Entries	[View as tree] Mathews, Robert Hamilton (father) White, James (uncle by marriage) White, Francis John (uncle by marriage) White, Samuel Albert (work colleague) Iredale, Tom (work colleague)
Education *	Singleton Grammar School (NSW) (student, 1887-1889) King's School (Parramatta, Sydney) (student, 1890-1894)
Occupation or Descriptor *	ornithologist (1894-1900) Queensland, Australia natural history collector (1902-1939) Overseas ornithologist (1902-1939) Overseas ornithologist (1940-1945) Australian Capital Territory, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1942-1942) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1939)
Key Organisations *	Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland) (fellow)

* Dates are approximate