"Historian of Newfoundland" . "Keith Matthews was a prominent historian of Newfoundland, best known for his Oxford University DPhil thesis \"The West of England Newfoundland Fishery\" and for a highly influential essay \"Fence Building: A Critique of the Historeography of Newfoundland.\"Born in Plympton, Devon, Matthews left school at an early age to work as a jazz pianist in London, England. After military service he attended Ruskin College, Oxford where he pursued a degree in history."@en . "Matthews, Keith"@en . . .