Richard Mason (priest)
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Richard John Mason (1929–1997) was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the second half of the 20th century.[1]
The son of Vice-Admiral Sir Frank Mason, he was educated at Shrewsbury School. After an earlier career as a journalist he studied for ordination at Lincoln Theological College. He was priested in 1959 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Bishop's Hatfield. From 1964 to 1969 he was Chaplain to the Bishop of London, Robert Stopford. He then held incumbencies at Dunton Green, Edenbridge and Sevenoaks.[2] He was Archdeacon of Tonbridge from 1977 to 1985.[3]