Robert Mathew TD (9 May 1911 – 8 December 1966) was a British Barrister and politician. From a military family (his father was a major-general), Mathew went to Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He read for the Bar and was called (Lincoln's Inn) in 1937. He joined the Territorial Army in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and during the Second World War served in Italy and Greece as well as at the Staff College. He ended the war with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Mathew died in his sleep in December 1966 at the early age of 55.