Agnes Mason

After gaining her degree she lectured at Bedford College, London.^[1]

From 1892 to 1895 she worked at the Guild of the Epiphany. She started the Anglican religious order of nuns, the Community of the Holy Family with the help of several supporters. The purpose of the community was to improve women's education. Her supporters were Charles Gore, Bishop of Oxford; Walter Frere, Bishop of Truro; William Collins, Bishop of Gibraltar; George Congreve of the Society of St John the Evangelist; Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, president of the English Church Union; and the Roman Catholic theologian Baron von Hügel.

Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, was another of her supporters and he used his authority to establish her as the Mother Superior of this new group. The community remained small but it did establish teaching locations in London, St Leonards-on-Sea, Leeds, and Cambridge, and in India at All Saints' College, Nainital.

In 1913 it obtained its headquarters, or mother house, at Holmhurst St Mary, St Leonards.^[1] This was a house once owned by Augustus Hare and it had been extended using the profits from his writing.^[3]

Mason died at Holmhurst St Mary on 19 December 1941.^[1]

In 1909 Mason published Saint Theresa: The History of Her Foundations, which she had translated.^[4]