Person’s Profile
Joseph Mason (1799-1863)
Description
agrarian agitator
Biography
He was the brother of CMY’s nurse Maria (Mason) Reeves (if the identification of Maria Mason with Mrs Reeves is correct). Coleridge, Life, 80-1; John Keble’s Parishes, 96-7; Charlotte M. Yonge, An Old Woman’s Outlook in a Hampshire Village(London: Macmillan: 1892), 65-7; Joseph Mason: Assigned Convict 1831-1837 ed. David Kent and Norma Townsend (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 1996), 3.
