Francis Mason (missionary)

Francis Mason (2 April 1799 – 3 March 1874),

shoemaker by trade, was a Baptist lay preacher there.^[2]

Early life

After working with his father as a shoemaker for several years, he emigrated in 1818 to the

Burma

In Burma, besides conducting a training college for native preachers and teachers at

Moulmein. An improved edition appeared in 1860 under the title Burmah, its People and Natural Productions, and a third edition (2 vols.) revised and enlarged by William Theobald in 1882–1883.^[2]

Freemason and briefly faced exclusion from his missionary work due to certain views held by his wife, Ellen Huntly Bullard Mason, one of them being that God's way of speaking to Adam was revealed in the designs of the Burmese women's dresses.^[1]

He died at Rangoon.

See his autobiography, The Story of a Working Man's Life, with Sketches of Travel in Europe, Asia, Africa and America (New York, 1870).[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Mabberley, D. J. (1985) William Theobald (1829–1908): Unwitting Reformer of Botanical Nomenclature? Taxon 34(1):152–156.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chisholm 1911.
^ J. As. Soc. Bengal 18, p. 74

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mason, Francis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 837.

[mabberley-1] Mabberley, D. J. (1985) William Theobald (1829–1908): Unwitting Reformer of Botanical Nomenclature? Taxon 34(1):152–156.

[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2] Chisholm 1911.

[3] J. As. Soc. Bengal 18, p. 74

[2]

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Francis Mason (missionary)

Early life

Burma

Personal life

See also

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