Constituency Dates
Bishop’s Castle [1690] – Apr. 1690
Family and Education
b. c. 1655, 1st s. of Thomas Mason of Rockley Hall and Churchstoke, Mont.; bro. of Charles Mason*. educ. Trinity, Oxf. matric. 15 Nov. 1672, aged 17; I. Temple called 1682. unm. 1 Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. ser. 2, x. 52; Cal. I. Temple Recs. iii. 174.
Offices Held

Freeman, Much Wenlock 1684.2 Salop RO, Forester mss, copy of Much Wenlock corp. bk.

Address
Main residence: Rockley Hall, nr. Bishop’s Castle, Salop.
biography text

Mason was returned with the help of his father, who was probably a Whig, for a borough in the affairs of which his family had long taken a leading part. Lord Carmarthen (Sir Thomas Osborne†) classed him as a Whig in a list of March 1690, but he was dead v.p., by 11 Apr. 1690, when a writ for a new election was ordered, and was eventually succeeded in the seat by his younger brother, Charles.3 Herbert Corresp. ed. W. J. Smith (Univ. of Wales Bd. of Celtic Studies, Hist. and Law ser. xxi), 352–4.

Author
D.W.H.
Volume
Commons 1690-1715
Notes
  • 1. Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. ser. 2, x. 52; Cal. I. Temple Recs. iii. 174.
  • 2. Salop RO, Forester mss, copy of Much Wenlock corp. bk.
  • 3. Herbert Corresp. ed. W. J. Smith (Univ. of Wales Bd. of Celtic Studies, Hist. and Law ser. xxi), 352–4.