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MASTER, THOMAS, only son of Thomas Master (b. 1744, qv); b.; adm. 28 Jan 1782; left Aug 1786; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1786, aged 16; Cornet, 11th Light Dragoons 30 Dec 1789; Lieut., 1 Feb 1793; Capt., 2nd Dragoon Guards 6 Feb 1794; Maj., 16 Sep 1795; d. unm. 17 Oct 1797.

MASTER, THOMAS, elder son of Thomas Master (adm. 1729, qv); b. 1744; in school list 1754; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 May 1761, aged 17; inherited the Abbey estate, Cirencester, Gloucs. , from his grandfather in 1770; High Sheriff, Gloucestershire 1771; MP Gloucestershire 1784-96; m. 25 May 1769 Mary, dau. of James Lenox Dutton (formerly Naper), Sherborne, Gloucs. ; d. 12 May 1823.

MASTER, THOMAS, brother of Legh Master (qv); b. 3 Dec 1723; adm. Apr 1733; Min. Can. 1738; KS 1739; d. at school 14 Dec 1742. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

MASTER, THOMAS, son of Thomas Master MP, The Abbey, Cirencester, Gloucs., and Joan, dau. of Jasper Chapman, Stratton, Gloucs.; bapt. 31 May 1717; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1729; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 May 1735; MP Cirencester from 1747; m. 26 Dec 1742 Elizabeth Chester, dau. of Sir William Cann, Bart.; d. 29 May 1749.

MASTER, STREYNSHAM, brother of Legh Master (qv); b. 5 Jul 1720; adm. Jun 1729; left 1737; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Nov 1737; d. 20 Oct 1741.

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.