Lancelot Mason

The Ven Lancelot Mason MBE MA was an eminent[1] Church of England priest in the 20th century.[2]

He was born on 22 July 1905 and educated at the RN College Osborne, RN College Dartmouth, and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] Ordained in 1929, he began his career with a curacy at Soham, after which he was Residential Chaplain to George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, until 1938.[4] Next he was Rector of Plumpton with East Chiltington,[5] and during the war was a Chaplain with the RNVR, and was Mentioned in Despatches[6] before being appointed Archdeacon of Chichester in 1946. He additionally became a Canon Residentiary at the diocese's cathedral in 1949; and retired from both posts in 1973.[7] He died on 9 February 1990.