MASTER, RICHARD, brother of Legh Master (qv); b. 19 Jun 1718; adm.; in school list 1731; d. 11 Oct 1745.
MASTER, LEGH, son of Legh Master MP, Codnor Castle, Derbs., and his first wife Margaret, dau. of Thomas Launder, New Hall, Ashton in Makerfield, Lancs.; b. 5 May 1717; adm. Feb 1727/8; left 1735; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Dec 1737; settled in America and supplied ordnance to the British forces in the American War of Independence; m. 10 Aug 1753 Catherine, only dau. of William Hoskins, Barrow Green House, Oxted, Surrey; d. at Legh Furnace, USA 23 Mar 1796.
MASTER, BENJAMIN, seventh son of Rev. William Master DD, Prebendary of Canterbury, and Mary ---; bapt. Canterbury Cathedral 28 Oct 1612 (sic); adm.; KS (aged 14) 1629; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1633, matr. 29 Nov 1633, Westminster Student to 1649; BA 1637; MA 1640. [Perhaps Benjamin Masters (sic) who was Rector of Grafton Flyford, Worcs., by 1650; perhaps Benjamin Master who was Master, Gloucester Cathedral School 1659-60].
Massingham, Harold John, son of Henry William Massingham, of Bloomsbury, by his first wife, Emma, daughter of Henry Snowdon, of Norwich; b. March 25, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1901 (H); left (with Triplett) July 1906; Queen's Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1906; writer and journalist; member of the Board of Trade Committee for Administering the Plumage Act (Prohibition of Imports) 1921; author of a number of well-known books on natural history and the English country scene of which The English Countryman (1942) was perhaps the most important: 'As various as Cobbett, with something of Cobbett's obstinacy but without his eccentricity. ' (The Times Aug. 25, 1952); m. 1st July 30, 1914, Speedwell Gertrude, daughter of Arthur Black, of London; 2nd 1933, Penelope Anne, daughter of Alexander Josiah Webbe, of Chelsea; d. Aug. 22, 1952.
MASSINGBERD, THOMAS, eldest son of William Massingberd (formerly Meux), Gunby, Lincs., and his first wife Mary Thornborough; nephew of Thomas Meux (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1738/9 (Hutton's); left 1746; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 25 Jan 1747/8, aged 18, but did not matr.; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 3 Mar 1749/50; m. 23 Jan 1756 (IGI) Elizabeth, dau, of Alexander Emerson, Caistor, Lincs.; d. 1777.
MASSINGBERD, PEREGRINE, second son of Bennet Langton LLD, Great George Street, Westminster, and Mary, widow of John, 9th Earl of Rothes, and dau. of Graham Lloyd; b. Jan 1780; in school list 1797; Henry Fynes-Clinton (qv) records that his schoolfellow Langton lent him Boswell’s Life of Johnson to read when he was a homeboarder in 1796 (Literary Remains, 1854, 332); Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 4 Dec 1797, aged 17; BA 1801; assumed surname of Massingberd in lieu of Langton 2 Feb 1803; of Gunby Hall, Lincs.; m. 18 Aug 1802 Elizabeth Mary Anne, only dau. of Henry Massingberd, Gunby Hall, Lincs.; d. 23 Sep 1856.
MASSEY, CHARLES CARLETON, youngest son of Right Hon. William Nathaniel Massey PC MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office, barrister, and Frances Carleton, dau. of Rev. John Orde, Rector of Wensley, Yorks.; b. 23 Dec 1838; adm. 20 Jan 1853; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Nov 1859, certificate of honour May 1861, called to bar 27 Jan 1862; Western Circuit; retd. from practice 1881; d. 29 Mar 1905.
MASSEY, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).
Masse, Joseph Francois Paulin; b. France 5 Nov 1834 ; French Master at Dulwich College Nov 1858 – Dec 1863, Merchant Taylors’ School 1864-75 ; visiting French Master at the School Sep 1869 – Dec 1883 ; subsequently Principal, London School of Commerce, Finchley, Middlesex ; Examiner in Modern Languages to Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board, Board of Intermediate Education for Ireland, College of Preceptors, and Civil Service Commission ; author, A Grammar of Colloquial French and French Spare Moments ; m. 11 Jun 1859 Margaret, dau. of John Bowack, Montrose ; d. 13 Mar 1899, as a result of a street accident.