Arthur James Mason

Arthur James Mason (4 May 1851 – 24 April 1928) was an English clergyman, theologian and classical scholar.

The third son of George William Mason JP, of Morton Hall, Retford, Nottinghamshire, by his marriage to Marianne Atherton Mitford (born 1821 in India), a daughter of Captain Joseph George Mitford (1791–1875), of the Madras Army, Mason was educated at Repton School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

His departure from Cambridge was at the urging of his friend Edward White Benson, who had been appointed as Bishop of Truro and wanted Mason to act as diocesan missioner.

[7] In 1884, after Benson had been translated to Canterbury,[7] Mason took up a benefice as vicar of All Hallows-by-the-Tower, Barking, in the City of London, where he remained until 1895.

That year he returned to Cambridge as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity (1895–1903) and also became a canon of Canterbury Cathedral.