John Mason Good

John Mason Good (25 May 1764 – 2 January 1827), English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects, was born at Epping, Essex.

Besides contributing both in prose and verse to the Analytical and Critical Reviews and the British and Monthly Magazines, and other periodicals, he wrote a large number of works relating chiefly to medical and religious subjects.

[2] In 1794 John Good became a member of the British Pharmaceutical Society, and in that connection, and especially by the publication of his work, A History of Medicine (1795), he did much to effect a greatly needed reform in the profession of the apothecary.

His translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things (1805–1807), contains elaborate philological and explanatory notes, together with parallel passages and quotations from European and Asiatic authors.

[6] He died at Shepperton, Middlesex, on 2 January 1827 and was interred in the crypt of St Pancras New Church alongside his son John Mason (d.1803) and afterwards, his wife Susanna (c.1771 – 1834).