Career
Born in Ireland, he was ordained in 1822 and began his ministry as a missionary with the London Missionary Society in India (Madras from 1823 to 1825, and Bangalore from 1825 until around 1827). From 1828 until 1830 he tried to establish a Congregational chapel in Dunfermline, Scotland. He was in Salford, England, until 1848, and then moved to London to become secretary of the Home Missionary Society.
Massie was frequently in Ireland, on revival work, and died in Kingstown, near Dublin.
He was an advocate of free trade, making a celebrated speech for the anti-Cornlaw League in 1842. He visited America several times.
He died in 1869.