Donald Macleod Matheson

Donald Macleod Matheson
D M Matheson
Born 20 June 1896(1896-06-20)
Died 14 January 1979(1979-01-14) (aged 82)
Occupation Translator, scholar
Influenced by Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt
Title Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Donald Macleod Matheson (occasionally only MacLeod Matheson) CBE (1896-1979) was Secretary to the National Trust from 1934 to 1945. Active within the Traditionalist School as a translator and author, he founded The Matheson Trust for the study of comparative religion.


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Life

Born into an aristocratic Scottish family,[1] Matheson was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.[2] After serving in the artillery during World War I, he held the post of Secretary to the National Trust, which with the years earned him an appointment as CBE in 1945.[3] Matheson was a close friend of G E H Palmer (a Christian traditionalist, translator of the Philokalia). He worked as a Director for John Smedley until his retirement in 1967.[2] Matheson maintained associations with Perennialist authors for many years, and his translations of French works by Schuon and Burckhardt were published in the UK, India and Pakistan.[2] Some of his translations where made in collaboration with Buddhist scholar Marco Pallis.

Works

Books

  • The National Trust: A Record of Fifty Years' Achievement (contributor). London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1946.
  • Places of Natural Beauty (National Trust Guide). London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1950.
  • Science and the Myth of Progress (one chapter contributed), Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2003 (ISBN 978-0 941532-47-1).

Articles

Translations

  • Schuon, Frithjof, Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts. London: Faber and Faber, 1954 (reprinted by Sophia Perennis under ISBN 978-0-900588-01-3).
  • ———, Castes and Races, trans. Marco Pallis and Macleod Matheson. Pates Manor, Bedfont, Middlesex: Perennial Books, 1959.
  • ———, Language of the Self, trans. Marco Pallis and Macleod Matheson. Madras: Ganesh, 1959.
  • ———, Understanding Islam. London: Allen & Unwin, 1963, 1976, 1979; Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books, 1972.
  • Burckhardt, Titus, An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Thorsons Publishers Ltd, 1976 (new edition by World Wisdom, 2008, ISBN 978-1-933316-50-5).

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ World Wisdom author bio
  2. ^ a b c "MATHESON, Donald Macleod" in Who Was Who. London: A & C Black, 1920–2008. Online ed., Oxford: OUP, 2007. http://www.ukwhoswho.com.ipac.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U157266 (accessed September 16, 2011).
  3. ^ Official 1945 record in the London Gazette. See also the article "The National Trust" in The Observer (July 29, 1945), p. 4, mentioning his retirement.

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