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| honorific-prefix = [[The Reverend]]
| name = Arthur Daniel Matheson<ref name="Plow"/>
| honorific-suffix = ''Ayyagaru''
| title = [[The Reverend]]
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| elected = 1960<ref name="Plow"/>
| term = 1960
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| predecessor = [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[A. B. Masilamani]]<ref name="Plow"/>
| successor = [[The Reverend|Rev.]] M. L. Moses<ref name="Plow"/>
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'''Arthur D. Matheson''' was a [[Baptist]] Pastor who served as a missionary in [[India]] from 1920<ref>George Edward Levy, ''The Baptists of the Maritime Provinces: 1753-1946'', Barnes-Hopkins, 1946, p.304. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KnbkAAAAMAAJ&dq=a.d.matheson+baptist&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=matheson]</ref><ref>M. L. Orchard, ''Canadian Baptists at work in India'', Missionary Education Department of the Foreign Mission Board, Toronto, 1922.[https://archive.org/stream/canadianbaptists00orchuoft/canadianbaptists00orchuoft_djvu.txt]</ref> through 1965<ref name="Plow"/> as part of the overseas missionary endeavour of the [[Canadian Baptist Ministries]].

After a four-decade missionary service, Matheson was elected in 1960<ref name="Plow"/> as the President of the [[Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars]] succeeding [[A. B. Masilamani]].

After nearly five decades of missionary service in [[India]], Matheson left for [[Canada]] in 1966.<ref name="Plow">W. G. Carder, ''Hand to the Indian Plow: Volume One'', Carder, Hyderabad, 1976, Appendices I and II, pp.1 and 16 respectively. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7AcxNAEACAAJ&dq=hand+to+the+indian+plough+carder&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAGoVChMIyNHv8vuJyQIVxSiUCh0HBAMy]</ref>

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==References==
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[[Category:People from East Godavari district]]
[[Category:Christian clergy from Andhra Pradesh]]
[[Category:Senate of Serampore College (University) faculty]]
[[Category:Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars]]
[[Category:Canadian Baptist Ministries missionaries in India]]
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