Tom Matthews (politician)

Tom Matthews (1920 or 1921–2002) was an English local councillor, five times mayor, and councillor of the former district of Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, England. A local politician since 1947, in 1983 he was awarded the MBE for services to local government. In 1981, Matthews was Chairman of the former Leominster District Council and a member of Malvern Hills District Council from 1998 to 2000. During World War II he was a prisoner of war in Germany. He died on October 18, 2002 at the age of 81.