After his B.A (Hons) Degree Course in Philosophy at Madras Christian College Mr. C.P. MATHEW served on the staff of that College for three years. As a member of the original group whose vision and initiative were responsible for the founding of the Union Christian College he has impressed the stamp of his forceful personality on every part of the life of the College. His sense of fairness, his courage of conviction, his magnanimity and his undivided loyalty to the highest and the best enabled him to make a most distinctive and valuable contribution alike in shaping of the policies of the College and in the conscientious and efficient discharge of day to day routine duties. He was greatly respected for his profound scholarship in Philosophy and Theology and for the lofty ideals and principles which guided his life. His interest and gifts of leadership were not confined to the College.He was the member of the Mission of Fellowship which visited England in 1938. He was Principal of the College from 1947-’52. He was a member of the first elected Parliament of the Indian Republic during the period 1952-’57 and during the period he served on the Indian delegation to the UNESCO in Paris in 1952 and to the United Nations Assembly in 1954. Mr. Mathew continued to exert a great influence in the life of the Christian Church and to take an active interest in the political life of the country. He also maintainined his intimate association with the life and the work of the College until his death on September 24, 1970. The Mathew Block is named after him.