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738 Naval Aide-de-Camp to his late, and to her present Majesty; and he had likewise, in the year last mentioned, been awarded the Captains’ Good-service Pension. He married, 16 April, 1805, Selina, youngest daughter of Henry, second Viscount Hood, and sister of Lieut.-Col. Fras. Wheler Hood, who was killed in action on the heights of Aire, 2 March, 1814. By that lady, a near connexion of, Sir Francis has had issue twelve children, nine of whom are still living. His eldest son, Charles, a Midshipman R.N., was lost in the sloop of war in Dec. 1823. One of his daughters, Charlotte Susannah, married, 14 April, 1832, Capt. Hood Richards, h-p. 6th Dragoon Guards.

 MASON. 

entered the Navy 1 Oct. 1809; and was present, we are informed, at the reduction of Guadeloupe (where he had previously witnessed the destruction of the French frigates Loire and Seine), and also in the operations against New Orleans. He passed his examination in 1815; obtained his commission 28 April, 1827; was appointed, 19 June, 1828, and 19 Feb. 1830, Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the and  Coast Blockade ships, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot; obtained charge of a station in the Coast Guard 4 April, 1831; and was removed, 21 Jan. 1847, to the command of a Revenue-vessel, the, in which he is now serving.

Lieut. Mason married, 1 June, 1831, Ann, eldest daughter of W. Whitehead, Esq., of Teynham, co. Kent.

 MASON. 

, born 26 April, 1791, is descended from Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham and.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, stationed in the Channel and off Cadiz. After sharing in the battle of Trafalgar he removed, in Nov. 1805, to the 32, Capt. Wm. Hoste, on the Mediterranean station, where, in May, 1809, he was captured in a prize by two French privateers, and carried to Ancona. From that place he was marched to Briançon, and subsequently to Verdun. In Aug. 1810, owing to misconduct on the part of other midshipmen, he was deprived of his parole, and placed in close confinement in the citadel prison. Thence, in the following Nov., after many ineffectual attempts, he contrived to escape; and on 1 Jan. 1811, having traversed Holland, he had the good fortune to reach England. He was in consequence promoted, on 2 Feb. in the same year, to a Lieutenancy in the 98, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzec, off Lisbon; and he was next appointed – 3 May and 18 Dec. 1811, to the America and 74’s, Capts. Josias Rowley and Thos. Rogers, on the Mediterranean station – and, 28 June, 1813 (after six months of half-pay), to the 40, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton. He acquired his present rank 13 June, 1815, but has not been since employed.

Commander Mason, for upwards of 13 years, has been in the Commission of the Peace for co. Southampton. He was left a widower, with six children, 29 Oct. 1843.

 MASON. 

entered the Navy, 5 Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Lord Henry Paulet. In that ship, which was at first employed off Cadiz, he saw a good deal of active service in the Mediterranean, where he assisted, as Midshipman, in driving two French ships on shore, and commanded the jolly-boat at the cutting-out of an enemy’s vessel. He left the in June, 1810, and between that period and Aug. 1815 was employed on the Lisbon, North American, Mediterranean, Home, and Bermuda stations in the  38, Capts. Lord Wm. Fitzroy, Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, and John Surman Garden, 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, 38, Capts. Chas. Hole, Wm. Hamilton, and Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, 28, Acting-Capt. Rich. Weymouth, and 36, Capt. Gilbert Heathcote. He then took up a commission, bearing date 27 Feb. 1815; and was afterwards, from 5 Oct. in that year until 9 Oct. 1817, employed on the Home, Jamaica, and South American stations, in the and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Philip Carteret. During the term of his attachment to the ship last mentioned Lieut. Mason was placed in charge of the tender, and employed on the eastern coast of England. Since he left the he has been on half-pay.

In 1829 Lieut. Mason was Sheriff for Buckinghamshire. He is now a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for that co. He married first, in 1822, Mary, niece of the late Sir Wm. Heathcote, Bart.; and (that lady dying in 1825), secondly, in 1826, Horatia, fourth daughter of Geo. Matcham, Esq., of Ashford Lodge, Sussex, by Catherine, sister of the immortal Nelson. By his second wife (who is sister-in-law of Lieuts. John Bendyshe and John Davies, and of the late Capt. Edw. Blanckley, R.N.), the Lieutenant has had issue two sons and five daughters. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 MASON. 

entered the Navy 7 Nov. 1822; passed his examination in 1830; obtained his first commission 21 July, 1837; and was appointed – 29 of the same month, as Additional Lieutenant, to the 52, flag-ship in the East Indies of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel – 11 March, 1838, to the 72, bearing the flag of Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland on the same station – and, 26 March, 1839, to the command of the 10. In that vessel he obtained mention for his zeal and alacrity at the capture of Chusan in July, 1840; after which he was sent, in company with the 28, and  tender, to examine the entrance of the Yang-tse-Kiang. In the attack made upon Canton in March, 1841, we find him enacting a very conspicuous part; as he subsequently did in the operations renewed in the following May against that place. Having, in the words of Sir Humphrey Le Fleming Senhouse, won his promotion by a series of gallant and brave services, he was accordingly, 8 June, 1841, advanced to the rank of Commander. Continuing, however, in the until Sept. 1842, he was afforded an opportunity of aiding in the capture of Amoy. He has been in command, since 25 Jan. 1847, of the steam-sloop of 350 horse-power, in the East Indies.

Commander Mason married, 14 July, 1846, Isabella Susanna, third daughter of the late Edw. Frere, Esq., of Bitton, Gloucestershire.

 MASSEY. 

entered the Navy, 3 Nov. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy, Fras. Pender, and Wm. Bradley. After a servitude of four years in the Channel and among the Western Islands, half the time in the capacity of Midshipman, he joined, in Nov. 1807, the 80, bearing the flag of his friend Hon. M. De Courcy; whom, in March, 1809 (having previously assisted in embarking the remains of Sir John Moore’s army at Corunna), he followed, as Master’s Mate, into the  80, of which ship he was successively created an acting and a confirmed Lieutenant 3 Nov. 1809 and 9 April, 1810. He continued in her on the Brazilian station until Nov. 1812; and was next, from Nov. 1813 until Nov. 1814, employed off New York in the 56, Capt. Nash. He has not been since afloat.

