Background
Born at Hetherset, Norfolk, he was descended from William Master of Cirencester.
Born at Hetherset, Norfolk, he was descended from William Master of Cirencester.
He was admitted to Corpus Christi College in 1731. Graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1734, Master of Arts Masters was in the commission of the peace for Cambridgeshire, and acted as deputy to William Compton, Doctor of Laws, chancellor of the diocese of Ely, who resided abroad.
In 1738, Bachelor of Divinity in 1746. And was fellow and tutor of the college from 1738 to 1750. On 14 May 1752, he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
He continued to reside in college till he was presented by that society to the rectory of Landbeach, Cambridgeshire, in 1756.
Matthias Mawson, bishop of Ely, collated him to the vicarage of Linton, which he resigned for that of Waterbeach in 1759. In 1797, he resigned the living of Landbeach in favour of Thomas Cooke Burroughes, senior fellow of Caius College, who, immediately upon his presentation, married Mary, Masters"s second daughter.
He was buried at Landbeach, where a monument was erected to his memory. About 1757, Masters married a granddaughter of one of his predecessors at Landbeach, and daughter of John Cory, rector of Impington and Waterbeach.