Ronald Mason (chemist)
Ronald Mason is the name of: *R. A. K. Mason (1905–1971), New Zealand poet *Ronald Mason (cricket writer) (1912–2001), English writer of novels, biographies, literary criticism and cricket books * Ronald Mason (drama) (1926–1997), Northern Irish director and producer of drama for the BBC *Ron Mason (1940–2016), Canadian former ice hockey player, head coach and university executive *Ron G. Mason Ronald George Mason ( Winsor, Hampshire, England, 24 December 1916 – London, 16 July 2009) was one of the oceanographers whose pioneering Cold War geomagnetic survey work lead to the discovery of magnetic striping on the seafloor. First discoveri ...

Ronald Mason (cricket Writer)
Ronald Charles Mason (1912 – 5 August 2001) was an English writer of novels, biographies, literary criticism and cricket books. Life and career After attending King's College School, Wimbledon, Mason entered the civil service, working most of his life in the estate duty office, employed in the collection of death duties. He also had a career as a writer, beginning as a novelist of modest success before devoting his energies to cricket books. After the Second World War he completed a first-class honours degree in English from the University of London, studying externally. He had trouble getting his first cricket book, ''Batsman's Paradise: An Anatomy of Cricketomania'', published, until he sent it to Errol Holmes, the former Surrey captain, who recommended it to a publisher. His cricket books were "marked by a genuine affection for the subject as well as a flowing style". Mason and his wife Peggie had two sons (one of whom, Nick, was a journalist for ''The Guardian'') and a d ...
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Ronald Mason (drama)
Ronald Mason (8 September 1926 – 16 January 1997) was a director and producer of drama for the BBC, a BBC executive in his native Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles, the Head of BBC Radio Drama as successor to Martin Esslin and was active in the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Known universally throughout Irish and British theatrical and broadcasting circles as Ronnie, among the writers Mason championed, Brian Friel perhaps became the most prominent. Mason produced and directed Friel's earliest plays, '' A Sort of Freedom'' (16 January 1958) and '' To This Hard House'' (24 April 1958), for the BBC Northern Ireland Home Service on radio and later brought Friel's stage work to the BBC's national networks. Life and works Ronald Charles Frederick Mason was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, the seventh child of a seventh child in a strongly Protestant community. Among his schoolmates in Ballymena was Ian Paisley, who was to become a major political figure in Unionist p ...
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Ron Mason
Ronald Herbert Mason (January 14, 1940 – June 13, 2016) was a Canadian ice hockey player, head coach, and university executive. A head coach of various American universities, most notably Michigan State University (MSU), he was the most successful coach in NCAA ice hockey history between 1993 and 2012 with 924 wins, until Jerry York (Boston College) become the new winningest coach with his 925th career win on December 29, 2012. Mason was athletic director at MSU from 2002 to 2008. He then served as senior advisor for the USHL Muskegon Lumberjacks. On December 2, 2013, Mason was inducted into the U.S Hockey Hall of Fame. Family Ron Mason was born the son of Harvey Mason, a salesman, and Agnes Mackay Mason, an elementary school teacher. He married the former Marion Bell on June 8, 1963. They had two daughters, Tracey (born 1963) and Cindy (born 1968) and two grandsons, Tyler and Travis. Travis was a defenseman on the Michigan State University hockey team until his graduation in ...
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