| Authorised form of name | Mason; Charles (c 1699 - 1771) |
| Dates | c 1699 - 1771 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | c. 1699 |
| Date of death | 18 December 1771 |
| Occupation | Clergyman, Church of England |
| Activity | Education:
School at Wem, Shropshire; Trinity College, Cambridge; BA (1723), MA (1726), BD (1736), DD (1749); Incorporated at Oxford (1731)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity (1725); Professor of Geology (1734-1762); Ordained deacon (1733); Vicar of Barrington, Cambridgeshire (1742); Rector of Orwell (1762-1771)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 24/06/1742 |
| Relationships | Son of Charles Mason of Prees, Shropshire. |
| General context | NOT to be confused with Charles Mason, Astronomer, (1728-1786) who surveyed the Mason-Dixon Line and was at one time was employed by the Royal Society but was never FRS. |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Venn
HW Robinson ,'A note on Charles Mason's ancestry and his family' in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 93, No. 2, 1949
TD Cope, 'Collecting source material about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon' in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 92,(2) 1948, pp111-114. |
| Royal Society code | NA1244 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1742/14 | Mason, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 24 June 1742 |
| MM/10/121 | Receipt for money from the Royal Society received by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon from William Cooley, Collector of Customs, Portsmouth | 25 November 1760 |
| MM/10/145 | Receipts from Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon 'showing what cash we received at the Cape' | c.1762 |
| MM/10/124 | Letter from Charles Mason, Portsmouth, to Charles Morton | 8 December 1760 |
| MM/10/149 | Receipt for £10 from Nevil Maskelyne to Charles Mason | 2 January 1762 |
| L&P/2/472 | Letter, 'On the discovery of a skeleton, swords, helmet, nacklet when making a road between Thrapston and Kettering; also an 'after-pass' in Trywell Field' from Charles Mason to Daniel Gray | 1754 |
| MM/10/118 | Letter from Charles Mason to the Council of the Royal Society | 4 November 1760 |
| MM/10/147 | Note from the Council of the Royal Society about the moneys apportioned for the expense of the expedition of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to observe the Transit of Venus | 1 July 1762 |
| MM/10/143 | Account of expenses incurred at the Cape of Good Hope by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon | c.1762 |
| MM/10/144 | Vouchers for expenses incurred at the Cape of Good Hope by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, as part of their observations of the Transit of Venus | c.1762 |
| MM/10/146 | Receipt from James Short for instruments handed over by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to the Royal Society | 16 May 1762 |
| MM/10/135 | Letter from Charles Mason, Cape of Good Hope, to Charles Morton | 6 May 1761 |
| MM/10/131 | Letter from Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, Plymouth, to Dr Thomas Birch | 27 January 1761 |
| MM/10/120 | Bill from Richard Lever (for George Clarke, carrier) to Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon for £3.13.0d | 17 November 1760 |
| MM/10/108 | Memorandum by the Royal Society to the Lords of the Treasury | 5 July 1760 |
| MM/10/117 | Receipt from Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to Royal Society for Instruments for Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia] | c.1760 |
| MM/10/126 | Letter from Charles Mason, Portsmouth, to the Earl of Macclesfield | 19 December 1760 |
| L&P/5/193 | Paper, 'Astronomical observations made at Cavan for the Royal Society' by Charles Mason | 1770 |
| L&P/5/57 | Paper, 'Observations for determining the length of a degree of latitude in Maryland and Pennsylvania' by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon | 1768 |
| MM/10/130 | Letter from Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, Plymouth, to Charles Morton | 25 January 1761 |
| MM/10/134 | Letter from Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, Plymouth, to Dr Thomas Birch | 3 February 1761 |
| MM/10/128 | Letter from Charles Mason, Portsmouth, to Charles Morton | 12 January 1761 |
| IM/003011 | Mason, Charles | nd |
| MM/10/129 | Letter from Charles Mason, Portsmouth, to the Rev Dr James Bradley | 25 January 1761 |
| MM/10/123 | 'Account of moneys apportioned for 29 November 1760 for the expenses of the observations', by Peter Davall | 22 July 1760 |
| L&P/4/56 | Letter, 'Observations of Jupiter's satellites' from Richard Dunthorne to Charles Mason | 3 March 1761 |
| MM/10/116 | Articles of Agreement between the Council of the Royal Society and Mr Charles Mason and Mr Jeremiah Dixon | 23 October 1760 |
| MM/10/132 | Draft of a letter from the Royal Society to Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon | 31 January 1761 |
| EL/M3/49 | Letter, from Charles Mason to John Senex, dated at Trinity College Cambridge | 27 February 1736 |
| L&P/5/47 | Paper, 'Account of observations made by Mason and Dixon for determining a degree of latitude in the province of Maryland' by Nevil Maskelyne | 1768 |
| L&P/5/53 | Paper, 'Astronomical observations made in the forks of the River Brandiwine, as to the local effect of gravity on the going of a clock sent out by the Royal Society' by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon | 1768 |