Diary provides a treasury of detail From: Lincolnshire Echo | Date: October 6, 2007 | Copyright 2007 Lincolnshire Echo. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Matthew Flinders the explorer travelled the world, eventually mapping and naming Australia.

But there was another Matthew Flinders who travelled Lincolnshire giving surgical, medical and "man midwife" treatment to people.

Whereas Matthew Junior would immortalise the contours of a new continent, his father Matthew was content to document daily life in a diary and accounts book.

This was an era in which a trip from Donington to Boston or Spalding was something to write home about.

Domestic worries ranged from coping with the arrival of seven children and the death of a wife and father, to ...

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