Postcard franked Peckham c 1905 - “Dainty Novels” series - Ethel Matthews
Ethel Matthews (1869-1957), English actress, was born Ethel Garland Matthews at Le Havre, France, on 12 October 1869, the eldest child of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Garland Matthews (1838-1908) of the 44th and Manchester Regiments and his wife, Emily Thérèse (née Johnson, 1845-1905).
On 24 November 1892, Miss Matthews was married at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, to Philip Edward Ellissen (1864-1915), a stockbroker. The name Ellissen was eventually changed to Ellison, the name by which Ethel Matthews was known when she died in the Bayswater area of London on 5 January 1957.