William Mason

(1725-1797)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mason, William, 1725-1797 NRA: Mason William (1724-1797) poet canon of York DNB: Mason, William (1725-1797), poet and garden designer LBT ID: WiMason1797 VIAF ID: 95718679 LOC ID: n50044112	B/BAP: 1725-02-12 DIED: 1797-04-05
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English poet, the friend and biographer of Thomas Gray; author of Odes (1756), Elfrida (1752), and The English Garden (4 books, 1772-81).
REFERENCES TO William Mason: Sir Joshua Reynolds to William Roscoe, [1777] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [9 August 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 August 1800 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [21 August 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [22 September 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 23 July 1812 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 25 October 1813 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 April 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Uvedale Price to Samuel Rogers, 26 July 1824 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 10 John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1811 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1818 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 40 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter I. 1753-1781 Found 1: ¶ 41 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1812-13 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter XI 1826 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVII. 1812 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 4 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter V. 1808-1809. Verse 2: p. 123.a p. 123.a Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1813-1814. Chapter X. 1822-24. Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter V. 1842-44. Found 1: ¶ 34 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter I. Found 8: ¶ 42 ¶ 44 ¶ 45 ¶ 46 ¶ 47 ¶ 49 ¶ 50 ¶ 51 Chap. XXIX. Found 1: ¶ 32 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Letters: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) JAMES MATHIAS Found 1: ¶ 18