Gardener and landscape architect. Matthew Peters is said to have been born in Belfast in 1711 and to have been brought up in England by his uncle William Love, who was head gardener to the first Viscount Cobham at Stowe. He came to Ireland in about 1742 and opened a seedsman's business in Capel Street, Dublin. He also designed and laid out gardens and estates, as he advertised in Faulkner's Journal 11-14 October 1746 and December 1748. He was consulted about the building of the stove and walks at Marino, Co. Dublin and is said to have been employed by the Irish government to improve the navigation of lakes and rivers. Peters was a member of the Dublin Society and the author of a number of works on agriculture, published in the 1770s, by which time he was living at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. He married twice. By his first wife he was the father of the painter Matthew William Peters (1741-1814). See also - PETERS. PETERS.

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All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 229, and Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (1994), 548-9. A portrait of Peters by his son was engraved in mezzotint by John Murphy in 1778.

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Building:	CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MALAHIDE ROAD, MARINO
Date:	?
Nature:	MP consulted about building of stove and walks for 2nd Earl of Charlemont.
Refs:	Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (1994), 549