Harold Andrew Mason

Harold Andrew Mason (July 30, 1911 – November 25, 1993) was an lecturer of English at Exeter University.

Biography

Mason was born in Hull, England in 1911. He was educated at Hull Grammar School, Christ's Hospital, Hull University College and Oriel College, Oxford. He graduated from Oxford in 1934. He became a teacher of Classics at Stamford School.cite journal | journal = The Cambridge Quarterly | volume= 24 | issue = 1 | year = 1995 | title = front matter | url=http://camqtly.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/frontmatter_pdf/XXIV/1.pdf | format=pdf ]

In 1937, Mason began teaching Classics at a school in Switzerland and also started contributing to "Scrutiny". He got married in 1945. In 1949, he was Assistant Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge. He was an editor of "Scrutiny" from 1949 until it ceased publication in 1953. From 1955-65 he was a lecturer at Exeter University.

Mason was elected to F. R. Leavis Lectureship and a Fellow of Clare Hall in 1965. In 1966 he founded "The Cambridge Quarterly", of which he was the editor.

Mason died in Cambridge in 1993.

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