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Francis Mason (2 April 1799 – 3 March 1874), American missionary and a naturalist, [1] was born in York, England. His grandfather, also Francis Mason, was the founder of the Baptist Society in York, and his father, a shoemaker by trade, was a Baptist lay preacher there.
Francis Mason may refer to: Francis Mason (missionary) (1799–1874), American missionary and naturalist; Francis Mason (priest) (c. 1566–1621), English churchman; Francis Mason (politician) (1843–1915), Australian politician; Francis Mason (Royal Navy officer) (1779–1853) F. Van Wyck Mason (1901–1978), American historian and novelist
Francis Mason (c.1566–1621) was an English churchman, archdeacon of Norfolk and author of Of the Consecration of the Bishops in the Church of England (1613), a defence of the Church of England and the first serious rebuttal of the Nag's Head Fable put about as denigration of Matthew Parker and Anglican orders.
Chestnut Hill is an 18th-century Federal-style mansion north of Leesburg in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. [1] [2] [3] Chestnut Hill was a home of Thomson Francis Mason (1785–21 December 1838), [4] [5] a prominent jurist, lawyer, councilman, judge, mayor of Alexandria, and grandson of Founding Father of the United States George Mason. [5]
Mason was a son of ancient planter Lt. Francis Mason of Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, probably with this first wife Mary. Although sources long disagreed as to the relationship between the Surry County and Norfolk area Mason families, he had a brother, Francis Mason Jr. (who may have died as a youth) as well as a younger half brother (by his father's second wife) Lemuel Mason.
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Wrote one of the earliest known references to the Mason's Word. [10] Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane Lieutenant-Colonel, GCB, GCVO, PC (1910–1984), Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II during the first twenty years of her reign and to her father, King George VI prior. Served as Senior Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of England in 1946. [10]
Prior to his death, Mason asked the now-teenaged Francis to give him a proper Christian burial with a cross marking the grave so that his body would be resurrected on Judgment Day. Francis starts to dig the grave but suddenly hears a "Voice" in his head telling him to forget about the old man. Francis obeys and gets drunk instead.