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Richard Mason (novelist 1919–1997)
Richard Mason may refer to: Writers * Richard Mason (novelist, 1919–1997), English author of ''The World of Suzie Wong'' * Richard Mason (novelist, born 1977), English writer, the author of ''The Drowning People'' * Richard Mason (Welsh author) (1816–1881), printer and author Others * Richard Mason (historian) (1934–2009), also known as R.H.P. Mason * Richard Mason (politician) (c. 1633–1685), British Member of Parliament * Richard Mason (explorer) (1935–1961), British explorer * Richard Mason (film producer) (1926–2002), Australian * Angelus of St. Francis Mason (1599–1678), English Franciscan friar, born Richard Mason * Richard Barnes Mason (1797–1850), military governor of California * Richard Chichester Mason (1793–1869), American physician and Confederate States Army serviceman * Richard Nelson Mason (1876–1940), American educator and businessperson * Richard Mason Rocca Richard Mason Rocca (born November 6, 1977) is an American born Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mason (novelist, 1919–1997)
Richard Mason (16 May 1919 – 13 October 1997), published also under the pen name Richard Lakin, was a British novelist best known for his 1957 publication ''The World of Suzie Wong''. His novels usually concerned Britons' experiences in exotic foreign locations, especially in Asia. Personal life Born into a middle-class family in Hale, near Manchester, he was educated at The Downs Malvern, a private boarding school, from September 1928 through 1933. There he studied under novelist W. H. Auden and at the age of 14 authored a juvenile novel (criticized by Auden as "no good" and now lost). A passage in his second novel, ''The Wind Cannot Read'' (1946), may shed some light on Auden's critique: "When I was a boy at school I had written a story about a man and a woman. The English master was a poet with a great understanding of human nature, and in red ink at the end he had written, 'Yes, my dear, but people do not fall in love as quickly as all that, you know.' I think my characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mason (novelist, Born 1977)
Richard Mason (born 1978) is a South African-British novelist and philanthropist. Early life Richard Mason was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 4 January 1978. His parents were anti-Apartheid activists and brought Mason to the United Kingdom when he was 10 years old. Mason attended Sussex House School. Career Richard Mason first came to prominence at the age of 21, when the ''London Times'' dubbed him "king of the hot young writers". He had just published his first novel, ''The Drowning People'', an "exceptional achievement" (Guardian) that became "one of the most talked-about first novels of 1999" (Daily Telegraph). As The ''Telegraph'' put it, "If you want to be au courant with modern fiction, you will need to read it." "The Drowning People" sold more than a million copies in over 20 countries, was translated into 22 languages, and won Italy's Grinzane Cavour Prize for Best First Novel. Mason's second novel, ''Us'' (2005), was "an explosive mixture of cocky irony an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mason (Welsh Author)
Richard Mason (c. 1816- 26 December 1881) was a printer and author. He is believed to have been a native of Herefordshire, but settled in Tenby, Wales. In 1850 he took on the publishing and printing of ''Archaeologia Cambrensis'' at his sole risk for a share of the fees from subscribers who at that time numbered only 130. In 1855 the Cambrian Archaeological Association The Cambrian Archaeological Association ( cy, Cymdeithas Hynafiaethau Cymru) was founded in 1846 to examine, preserve and illustrate the ancient monuments and remains of the history, language, manners, customs, arts and industries of Wales and the ... assumed the role of publisher but retained Mason as their printer. In 1884 he was also involved with the Cambrian Journal, the journal of the Cambrian Institute, which he printed in Tenby and published in conjunction with Longmans & Co, J. Russell Smith and J. Peterham, all of London. Works *''A Guide to the Town of Tenby and its Neighbourhood'' (1852) *''Tales and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mason (historian)
Richard Henry Pitt Mason (3 March 1934 – 27 June 2009), also known as R.H.P. Mason, was an Australian academic, historian and Japanologist, and professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, before retiring in 1993. Mason was born and raised in England, following a year of military service, he began studying Japanese history under Carmen Blacker at Cambridge University, which he attended from 1954 to 1958. His PhD dissertation, completed at Australia National University, and published as a book in 1969, was entitled "Japan's First General Election, 1890." As a scholar, he specialized in Meiji period politics, but maintained a strong interest in classical Japanese poetry as well. Selected works In an overview of writings by and about Mason, OCLC/WorldCat WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative. It i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mason (politician)
Sir Richard Mason (c. 1633 – 8 March 1685) was an English Member of Parliament and Courtier. Career He held the following offices: * Clerk of the Green Cloth * Second Clerk Controller of Charles II's Household * One of the Commissioners for executing the office of Master of the Horse, 1679 * MP for Yarmouth 1673 * MP for Bishop's Castle, Shropshire 1680–1. He had a seat at King's Clere in Hampshire but resided principally at Sutton in Surrey where he owned the manor of Coulsdon. Marriage and issue He married c. 1662, Anna Margaretta Long, daughter of Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet. They had two daughters: * Dorothy, married Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet of Humby *Anna, married 1) (div 1698) Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, 2) c. 1700 Colonel Henry Brett. Sir Richard Mason was one of those present at the death of Charles II. His wife, Lady Anna Mason wrote a detailed account of the King's last illness and subsequent death, in a letter to her mother Lady Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mason (explorer)
Richard Maurice Ledingham Mason (28 March 19353 September 1961) was a British explorer and the last British person to have been killed by an uncontacted indigenous tribe. Biography Early life and first expedition Mason was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated at Westerleigh Preparatory School St Leonard's (school evacuated to Black Hall Avonwick Devon 1940-44) and later in 1948 Lancing College, and then read medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford. While at university he became involved with the Royal Geographical Society and made friends that would share his love of exploration. In 1958, with fellow Oxford undergraduate Robin Hanbury-Tenison, he set out on his first expedition, which involved traveling by jeep across South America at its widest point, east to west from Recife, Brazil, to Lima, Peru. They were the first explorers to make this journey. Second expedition and death In 1961, with the aid of the Society once again and additional funding from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mason (film Producer)
Richard Mason (1926–2002) was an Australian film producer and director. He was born on the South Coast of New South Wales, the son of a parson. During the Second World War he guarded Italian Prisoners of War. After the war he joined Sydney's Mercury Theatre as an actor, co-starring in Molière's play, ''The Imaginary Invalid''. However, he soon moved to film, starting as a wardrobe assistant for ''Eureka Stockade'' (1949), then as an assistant at the Colorfilm lab, before joining the Commonwealth Film Unit (now Screen Australia). He remained with the Commonwealth Film Unit, which then became Film Australia, for many years before resigning in 1978 over the Australian government's political censorship of ''The Unknown Industrial Prisoner''. Once independent, he produced ''Winter of Our Dreams'' (1981), '' Far East'' (1982), and '' One Night Stand'' (1984). Mason died in Sydney on 22 November 2002. A focus on Australian Aborigines A series of short films exploring themes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelus Of St
The Angelus (; Latin for "angel") is a Catholic devotion commemorating the Incarnation of Christ. As with many Catholic prayers, the name ''Angelus'' is derived from its incipit—the first few words of the text: ("The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary"). The devotion is practiced by reciting as versicle and response three Biblical verses narrating the mystery, alternating with the prayer "Hail Mary". The Angelus exemplifies a species of prayers called the "prayer of the devotee".''Prayer: a history'' by Philip Zaleski, 2005 p. 128 The devotion is traditionally recited in Roman Catholic churches, convents, monasteries and by the faithful three times a day: in the morning, at noon and in the evening (usually just before or after Vespers). The devotion is also observed by some Anglican, Western Rite Orthodox, and Lutheran churches. The Angelus is usually accompanied by the ringing of the Angelus bell, which is a call to prayer and to spread goodwill to everyone. The a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Barnes Mason
Richard Barnes Mason (January 16, 1797July 25, 1850) was an American military officer who was a career officer in the United States Army and the fifth military governor of California before it became a state. He came from a politically prominent American family and was a descendant of George Mason, a framer of the U.S. Constitution and father of the Bill of Rights. Gen. Mason is especially important to the history of California, because as military governor of the occupied territory, he wrote the official report that led to the California Gold Rush. Mason was "an aristocratic Virginian, a large portly man, six feet in height. He possessed all the peculiarities of a Southerner, accentuated," but he was known to have confined Jefferson Davis to quarters, who was under his command. A Lt. James Abert described him so, "It would be presumption in me to speak of so accomplished and well known an officer; but I cannot refrain from expressing my grateful sense of the kindness and hosp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Chichester Mason
Richard Chichester Mason (7 May 1793 – 22 July 1869) was an American planter, physician and politician in Fairfax County, Virginia, which he twice represented in the Virginia House of Delegates. Mason also practiced medicine in Alexandria, Virginia (part of the District of Columbia until 1847) and spent the American Civil War in Richmond working for the Confederate States Army. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915), vol. 4 p. 24 available at https://archive.org/details/encyclopediavir07unkngoog Early life and education Richard Chichester Mason may have been born at Newington plantation in Fairfax County to the former Sarah McCarty Chichester (1770-1826) on May 7, 1793. Descended from the First Families of Virginia, his father was planter Thomson Mason (1759–1820), who with his father's financial assistance constructed a house known as Hollin Hall on his Fairfax County property shortly after this marriage. The marriage produced four sons and four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Nelson Mason
Richard Nelson Mason (26 June 1876 – 22 November 1940) was a prominent American educator and businessperson in Washington, D.C. Mason was a great-great-grandson of Founding Father of the United States George Mason and his wife Ann Eilbeck. Early life Richard Nelson Mason was born in Culpeper, Virginia on 26 June 1876. Mason was the only son of Beverley Randolph Mason and his wife Elizabeth Harrison Nelson. Mason was named after his grandfather, Dr. Richard Chichester Mason. Mason's parents began a school for the education of himself, his sisters, and his parents' friends' children. Mason and his siblings were first raised an educated at a residence at 3017 O Street, N.W. in Georgetown. Mason's parents named the school Gunston Hall school for Mason's great-great-grandfather George Mason. As Gunston Hall School grew, it became an institution of higher learning for girls and young ladies. Marriage and children Mason married Blanche Andrews on 31 October 1925. He and Blanche had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mason Rocca
Richard Mason Rocca (born November 6, 1977) is an American born Italian retired professional basketball player who played for the Italian National Basketball Team. Born in Evanston, Illinois, his father is of Italian descent. He stands 203 cm tall, weighs 98 kg, and he plays as a forward-center. Club career Rocca played collegiately at Princeton University while achieving a degree in engineering. Following his college career in 2000, he played basketball for the Trenton Shooting Stars, of the International Basketball League. In 2001, he moved to Europe joining Aurora Jesi of the Italian LegADue. Rocca's skills developed through hard work during this span and in 2004 he moved to Naples. In the following three years, he became an integral part of the team and an idol of the local supporters. In 2006, he was a member of the Italian Cup Championship Napoli squad that reached the Playoff semifinal (lost against Fortitudo Bologna). In 2007, his team participated in the Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
