May 4, 1851.

Ap­ril 24, 1928, Can­ter­bu­ry, Eng­land.

Third son of G. W. Ma­son, of Mor­ton Hall, Not­ting­ham­shire, Ma­son was ed­u­cat­ed at Trin­i­ty Coll­ege, Cam­bridge (BA in hon­ors, 1872; DD 1890). He be­came a Fel­low of his col­lege in 1873, and As­sist­ant Tu­tor in 1874. Or­dained in 1874, he served as Vi­car of All-Hal­lows, Bark­ing, Lon­don (1884), and as of 1891 was Hon­or­a­ble Can­on and Can­on Mis­sion­er of Truro, Corn­wall. In 1895 he be­came La­dy Mar­ga­ret Pro­fess­or of Di­vin­i­ty at Cam­bridge and Fel­low of Je­sus Coll­ege. He al­so served as Mas­ter of Pem­broke Coll­ege (1903-12), and Vice Chan­cel­lor of the Un­i­ver­si­ty (1908-10). His works in­clude:

• The Faith of the Gos­pel
• Historic Mar­tyrs of the Prim­i­tive Church, 1903
• The Church of Eng­land and Epis­co­pa­cy, 1914
• Cambridge Pa­tris­tic Texts (ed­it­or)
• Early La­tin Hymns, by A. S. Wal­pole (pre­pared the man­u­script for pub­li­ca­tion af­ter Wal­pole’s death in 1920)

• Frost, p. 560
• Julian, p. 1579

1. Church of the Liv­ing God
2. Hail, Bo­dy True
3. Life-Long Task Was Done, The
4. Look Down up­on Us, God of Grace
5. O God, to Know That Thou Art Just

1. Not a Thought of Earth­ly Things!
2. O Je­su, Bless­ed Lord, to Thee