See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• JOSIAH (Heb. yo' shiyydhu, perhaps " Yah [weh] supports ")

JOSIAH See also:

• MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
• MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
• MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
• MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
• MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
• MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
• MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
• MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
• SIR JOSIAH MASON (1795-1881)
• MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)

MASON (1795-1881)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen-manufacturer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• KIDDERMINSTER

Kidderminster on the 23rd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1795, the son of a See also:

• CARPET

carpet-See also:

• WEAVER, JAMES BAIRD (1833- )

weaver . He began See also:

• LIFE

life as a See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

street See also:

• HAWKER, ROBERT STEPHEN (1803–1874)

hawker of cakes, fruits and vegetables . After trying his See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand in his native See also:

• TOWN

town at shoemaking, See also:

• BAKING

baking, carpentering, blacksmithing, See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house-See also:

• PAINTING

painting and carpet-See also:

• WEAVING

weaving, he moved in 1814 to See also:

• BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham . Here he found employment in the gilt-See also:

• TOY
• TOY, CRAWFORD HOWELL (1836– )

toy See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . In 1824 he set up on his own See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account as a manufacturer of split-rings by machinery, to which he subsequently added the making of See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel pens . Owing to the circumstance of his pens being supplied through See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• PERRY
• PERRY (from Fr. Moire, from poire, a pear)
• PERRY, MATTHEW CALBRAITH (1794–1858)
• PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD (1785-1819)

Perry, the See also:

• LONDON

London stationer whose name they See also:

• BORE

bore, he was less well known than See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph See also:

• GILLOTT, JOSEPH (1799-1873)

Gillott and other makers, although he was really the largest producer in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . In 1874 the business was converted into a limited liability See also:

• COMPANY

company . Besides his steel-pen trade See also:

• MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
• MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
• MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
• MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
• MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
• MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
• MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
• MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
• MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
• MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)

Mason carried on for many years the business of electro-plating, See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper-smelting, and See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

india-See also:

• RUBBER, INDIARUBBER

rubber See also:

• RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring making, in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George R . See also:

• ELKINGTON, GEORGE RICHARDS (1801-1865)

Elkington . Mason was almost entirely self-educated, having taught himself to write when a shoemaker's apprentice, and in later life he See also:

• FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt his deficiencies keenly . It was this which led him in 186o to establish his See also:

• GREAT

great orphanage at Erdington, near Birmingham . Upon it he expended about £300,000, and for this munificent endowment he was knighted in 1872 .

He had previously given a dispensary to his native town and an See also:

• ALMSHOUSE

almshouse to Erdington . In 188o Mason See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, since incorporated in the university of Birmingham, was opened, the See also:

• TOTAL

total value of the endowment being about 250,000 . Mason died on the 16th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1881 . See J . T . Bunce, See also:

• JOSIAH (Heb. yo' shiyydhu, perhaps " Yah [weh] supports ")

Josiah Mason (1882) .