Matthew Smallwood
Matthew Smallwood,, was Dean of Lichfield from 1671 until his death.
Smallwood was educated at Brasenose [College, Oxford]. He was Chaplain to Charles II and Canon of St Paul's. He held livings in the City of London, Halsall and Gawsworth.
He married Theophania Coningsby, daughter of Thomas Coningsby, Lord of North-Mims, Hertfordshire, and Martha Button, on 28 May 1650 in St Giles-without-Cripplegate, London. The had the following children:
- Jacob
- Charles
- William
- Martha, married Sir John Lloyd, 2nd Baronet of Lloyd [baronets of Woking (1662)|Woking Surrey, Surrey and of the Forest, Carmarthen]
- Mary
- Agnes