Background
Masood was the son of Syed Mahmood.
Masood was the son of Syed Mahmood.
Ross Masood was educated at Aligarh Muslim University and Oxford University.
On his return from England, Masood was elected a trustee of MAO College and started his own legal practice in Patna. He then entered the Indian Education Service as headmaster of Patna high School, a professor at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (Orissa), and a fellow of Calcutta, Madras and Osmania universities. From 1916 to 1928, he was Director of Public Instruction in Hyderabad.
He became the Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in 1929.
He was knighted by the British Government in the 1933 Birthday Honours list. Here, he introduced new courses, upgraded the syllabi and established laboratories for various science subjects.
Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu published a biography of Masud in 2011. He was the president of Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu.
A residential hall constructed in the year 1969 in Aligarh Muslim University is named after him.