MASON, ROBERT, eldest son of Robert Mason LLD, Croom’s Hill, Greenwich, Kent, Master of Court of Requests, and Judith, dau. of Sir Christopher Buckle, Burgh, Surrey; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1656; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1659, adm. pens. 10 May 1659, scholar 1659, martr. 1662; BA 1662/3; of East Greenwich, Kent; m.; d. 1666 (will of him or father proved PCC 5 Apr 1666).
MASON, NASH, son of John Mason, Maidstone, Kent, and Mary, dau. of John Calland; bapt. 5 Apr 1738; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1750/1 (Burges'); of Maidstone, Kent; d. unm. 21 Apr 1769.
Mason, John Lyall, son of Harold Lyall Mason DSO MC, stockbroker, of Crowborough, Sussex; b. 12 June 1921; adm. May 1935 (H); left Dec. 1938; RAFVR 1941-5 (Sqdn Ldr), DFCAug. 1943, Bar to DFC Nov. 1944; a merchant; m. 17 Nov. 1950 Kathleen Isabel, d. of W. C. Murray of St Peter Port, Guernsey; d. 1977
Mason, John Hier, son of Frank Mason, of Notting Hill, by Lucy Joan, daughter of James Jacob, of Abergavenny, Mon.; b. Oct. 4, 1892; adm. from Rossall School Jan. 16, 1908 (G); left July 1909; a fruit farmer at Penticton, British Columbia; joined Princess Patricia's Columbian Light Infantry as a private in Aug. 1914, and went with them to France in March 1915; was wounded in the trenches opposite St. Eloi the same month and invalided to England; 2nd Lieut. 13th Batt. London Regt. June 18, 1915; returned to the front and while acting as Trench Mortar Officer was badly wounded at the beginning of the Somme battle in July 1916.
MASON, EDWARD ERNEST; b. 23 Dec 1851; adm. 30 Mar 1865; left Oct 1868; attaché to Japanese Ambassador, London; in charge of a famine relief camp at Ranipett, Madras, India, early 1877; d. there of cholera 20 Jul 1877.
Mason, Edmund Russell, son of Rev. Edmund Robert Mason, Vicar of Luton, Beds., by Lilly Marian, eldest daughter of Ebenezer R. Williams, of Handsworth, Staffs; b. April 2, 1889; adm. as K.S. Sept. 25, 1902; left . July 1907; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1907; Capt. 6th (Serv.) Batt. York and Lancs Regt. Sept. 28, 1916; served in Great War I; M.C. Nov. 25, 1916; d. Bermuda 1947.
MASON, CHRISTOPHER, son of Capt. Christopher Mason, Royal Navy, Greenwich, Kent, and Jane, dau. of Sir Robert Robinson, Kt. ; nephew of Robert Mason (qv); bapt. Greenwich 20 Feb 1689/90; at school under Knipe (J. E. B. Mayor and R. F. Scott, Admissions tyo St. John’s Coll. Camb. , I, 176); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Jun 1705, aged 15, matr. 1705; perhaps Christopher Mason who was Clerk to Surveyors of the Navy Feb 1707 – Jun 1714; m. 1733 Anne, dau. of Christopher Buckle, Burgh, Banstead, Surrey. [Russell Barker and Stenning record that he was “killed while boarding a French ship 1759”, but it is not obvious why he should had been doing this at the age of 70, and this death notice presumably relates to some other person]. [but note will of Christopher Mason, Greenwich, Kent, proved PCC 24 Jan 1759]
MASON, ---; b.; in school lists 1739, 1740.
MASKELYNE, WILLIAM, son of Edmund Maskelyne, Purton, Wilts., Clerk in Secretary of State’s Office, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Booth, Woodford, Cheshire; b. 6 Oct 1725; adm. Jan 1737/8; Min. Can. 1739; KS 1740; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1744, adm. pens. 24 May 1744, scholar 3 May 1745, matr. 1745; BA 1747/8; MA 1751; BD 1761; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1750, Major Fellow 31 Jul 1751, Occasional Tutor 1753; ordained deacon (Ely) 21 May 1758; Rector of Over, Cambs., from 1768; d. Mar 1772.