Lancelot Mason

The Ven Lancelot Mason MBE, MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the third quarter of the 20th century.

He was born on 22 July 1905 and educated at RN College Osborne, RN College Dartmouth and Trinity College, Cambridge Ordained in 1929 he began his career with a curacy at Soham after which he was Residential Chaplain to the Bishop of Chichester until 1938. Next he was Rector of Plumpton with East Chiltington (and during the war a Chaplain with the RNVR) before being appointed Archdeacon of Chichester in 1946. He additionally became a Canon Residentiary at the diocese's cathedral in 1949; and retired from both posts in 1973. He died on 9 February 1990.