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George Stewart Mason
Extract from Northamptonshire Contemporary Biographies, by W T Pike, 1908
G S Mason
George Stewart Mason

George Stewart Mason—Hayway, Rushden; son of the late Stewart Mason, of Rushden; born at Rushden, March 11th, 1862; educated at Abington House School, Northampton. Solicitor, admitted April, 1885; served articles with his present senior partner; partner in the firm of Simpson and Mason, Higham Ferrers, Rushden, and Wellingborough; member of the Incorporated Law Society; Commissioner for Oaths; Clerk to the Urban District Council of Rushden, and the Higham Ferrers and Rushden Water Board; Secretary to the Rushden and Higham Ferrers District Gas Company; Churchwarden at Rushden Parish Church; Foundation Manager of the Rushden Church of England Schools; member of the Rushden District Education Sub-Committee. Married, in 1893, Edith, younger daughter of Edward Brown Randall, J.P., of Lymington House, Higham Ferrers, and has issue one son, and one daughter.

George and Edith had a house built in Hayway and called it Mason's Close. In 1894 their son Randall Stewart was born, and a daughter Edith was born in 1890. George was a partner in a firm of solicitors, Simpson & Mason, and was town clerk and a school manager.

Their son Randall was killed in WWI.

George in later life
Mr Mason in later life


Note: George must have been a good wood carver as he had
been teaching at evening school in 1899.


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