London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET. 回 Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. [All Rights reserved] by the late Henry Charles Finch Mason = sometime Scholar of Trinity College and Bell Scholar in the Sir Wm. Browne's Medallist (1878): Assistant Master in Haileybury College 1883--1902 with prefatory memoir by R. C. Gilson, Trinity College, Cambridge: Head Master of King Edward VI's School, Birmingham, edited by H. H. West, formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge. LONDON: C. J. Clay and Sons Ave Maria Lane 1903 HENRY CHARLES FINCH MASON was born at Aldenham in Hertfordshire on July 1, 1856. Entering Harrow in September 1870, he soon rose to nearly the top of the school, and won an open Classical Exhibition at Trinity College, Cambridge, almost three years before his actual residence as an undergraduate scholar of that College began. In 1876 he was awarded the Bell University Scholarship, and in 1878 the Porson Prize for Greek Trochaic Verse, and the Browne Medal for a Latin Ode. In the following year he was in the First Class of the Classical Tripos, and "highly distinguished" in the Examination for the Chancellor's Medals. His first experiences of teaching were gained at Harrow, Marlborough, and Sherborne; but in 1883 he was appointed by Dr Bradby a master at Haileybury, and there 19 years later he died, after a very brief illness, on Sunday morning, October 5, 1902. The story of a life of forty-six years, marked by few changes and no startling or unusual episodes, is soon told. Not so the life's total effect, when as in Mason's case rare mental gifts are united with a still rarer loyalty and nobility of character in the work which those who know it best |