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][4] He began his ordained ministry as vice-principal and then the principal of Carmarthen Training College.[5] 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.[6] From 1891 to 1897 he was Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness[7] when he was ordained to the episcopate[8] as the 4th Bishop of Antigua.[9] Returning to England he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Hereford until his retirement in 1912.