Background
Mason was born in Hull, England in 1911.
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Harold Mason
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He was educated at Hull Grammar School, Christ"s Hospital, Hull University College and Oriel College, Oxford. He graduated from Oxford in 1934.
Career
He became a teacher of Classics at Stamford School. In 1937, Mason began teaching Classics at a school in Switzerland and also started contributing to Scrutiny. In 1949, he was Assistant Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge.
He was an editor of Scrutiny from 1949 until it ceased publication in 1953.
From 1955-1965 he was a lecturer at Exeter University. Mason was elected to F. R. Leavis Lectureship and a Fellow of Clare Hall in 1965.
In 1966 he founded The Cambridge Quarterly, of which he was the editors Mason died in Cambridge in 1993.
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