JOHN

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

See also:

• NEALE, EDWARD VANSITTART (1810-1892)
• JOHN MASON NEALE (1818–1866)

NEALE (1818–1866)  , English divine and scholar, was born in London on the 24th of January 1818, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge . Here he was affected by the Oxford movement, and helped to found the Camden (afterwards the Ecclesiological) Society . Though he took orders in 1841, ill-health prevented his settling in England till 1846, when he became warden of Sackville College, an alms-house at East Grinstead, an appointment which he held till his death on the 6th of August 1866 . Neale was strongly high-church in his sympathies, and had to endure a good deal of opposition, including a fourteen years' inhibition by his bishop . In 1855 he founded a nursing sisterhood named St Margaret's . He occupies a high place as a hymnologist, but principally as a translator of ancient and medieval hymns, the best known being probably " Brief life is here our portion," "To thee, 0 dear, dear country," and " Jerusalem, the golden," which are included in the poem of Bernard of Cluny, De Contemptu Mundi, translated by him in full . He also published An Introduction to the History of the Holy Eastern Church (185o, 2 vols.); History of the so-called Jansenist Church of Holland (1858); Essays on Liturgiology and Church History (1863); and many other works . See Life by his daughter, Mrs Charles Towle (1907) ; the Memoir by his friend, R . F . Littledale; and the Letters of John Mason Neale (1910), selected and edited by his daughter . For a complete list of Neale's works see article in Dict. of Nat . Biog. xl .