Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Mason, (Sir) John
Mason, (Sir) John, fellow of All Souls' Coll, 1521, B.A. 8 July, 1521, M.A. 21 Feb., 1524-5, chancellor of the University 1552-6 and 1559-64, dean of Winchester 1549-53 (born at Abingdon, Berks, son of a cowherd by his wife, the sister of a monk), upon the motion of Sir Thomas More sent by the king to the university of Paris, of the privy council temp. Henry VIII. and temp. Edward VI.; "chief clerk of the council, French secretary and master of requests and ambassador to France in that king's time, in Queen Mary's time he was English resident in the Netherlands, M.P. Reading circa 1551-2, Taunton 1552-3, co. Southampton April-May, 1554, Nov., 1554—Jan., 1555, 1558, 1559, 1563, until he died 20 April, 1566; buried in St. Paul's cathedial. See Fasti, i. 54; Lansdowne MS. 981, f. 36; & Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary. See Thomas Mason 1594.