Donald Lindsay Mathieson ONZM QC is a Waikanae-based New Zealand lawyer and lay Anglican.
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Mathieson studied at Victoria University of Wellington, playing chess and hockey before winning a Rhodes Scholarship in 1959.
In addition to spending more than forty years in private practice, Mathieson was Crown Counsel in the Crown Law Office. From 2010 to 2015 he was President of the Film and Literature Board of Review.
Mathieson, an active lay Anglican, edited Faith at work in 2001, 'arguing that Christians should practise their faith at work.' He wrote on the subject of same-sex marriage, in context of the Anglican church adapting to the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013:
It is time to speak forthrightly in support of the clear scriptural witness about the sinfulness of homosexual acts and the position adopted without dissension by Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Churches alike for nearly two thousand years.