David Masson

David Mather Masson FRSE RSA[1] (2 December 1822 – 6 October 1907), was a Scottish academic, supporter of women's suffrage, literary critic and historian.

However, abandoning his aspirations to the ministry, be returned to Aberdeen to undertake the editorship of the Banner, a weekly paper devoted to the advocacy of Free Kirk principles.

In 1852 he was appointed a professor of English literature at University College, London, in succession to A H Clough, and for some years from 1858, he edited the newly established Macmillan's Magazine.

In 1865 he was selected for the chair of rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh, and during the early years of his professorship actively promoted the movement for the university education of women.

He also supported his wife Emily Rosaline Orme and two of their daughters in the women's suffrage movement, speaking at events in Edinburgh and London.

In 1900–1901 Masson is listed as living at 2 Lockharton Gardens in south-west Edinburgh (designed by Sir James Gowans).

In London on 17 August 1854, Masson married Emily Rosaline Orme, a noted campaigner for women's suffrage in Scotland.