Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff

Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff (September 1738 – 30 July 1806) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

Biography Mathew was the only son and heir of Thomas and Mary Mathew. His father's family had settled in Ireland from Wales a generation before. He had one sister, Catherine, who married firstly Philip Roe, and secondly John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell. She died in 1771. Mathew served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for County Tipperary between 1768 and 1783. In 1769 he was High Sheriff of Tipperary. On 12 October 1783 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Landaff, of Thomastown in the County of Tipperary, and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords. On 4 December 1793 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Landaff.

From 1794 to 1797, Lord Landaff was Colonel of the 14th Regiment of Foot. On 22 November 1797 he was made Earl Landaff. (1780–1875), whose mother was Elizabeth Smyth, sister of Ellis, Countess of Llandaff.

Francis married secondly in June 1784 to Lady Catherine Skeffington, daughter of Clotworthy Skeffington, 1st Earl of Massereene. She died in 1796. This second marriage produced no children. of Co. Waterford. The marriage was childless.