Charles James Mathews (26 December 1803 â€" 24 June 1878) was a
British actor. He was one of the few British actors to be successful
in French-speaking roles in France. A son of the actor Charles
Mathews, he achieved a greater reputation than his father in the same
profession and also excelled at light comedy. He toured three times in
the United States, and met and married his second wife there.Charles
James Mathews was born in Liverpool. After attending Merchant Taylors'
School, Crosby, he was articled as the architect Augustus Charles
Pugin's apprentice. For some years, Mathews worked at this
profession.His first public appearance on the stage was made on 7
December 1835, at the Olympic Theatre in London, as George Rattleton
in his own play The Humpbacked Lover, and as Tim Topple the Tiger in
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