1918- J Obituary. 307 



Edward Snow Mason. 



AVe much regret the delay in noticing the death of 

 Colonel Mason, which occurred at Lincoln on 13 March, 

 1917. He was elected a member of the Union iu 1897. 



The late Colonel was born in 1838 and was the son of 

 Richard Mason, for many years Tow^u Clerk of Lincoln. 

 He was educated at Rugby and entered the Array in 1854. 

 He saw a good deal of service in India, where he was during 

 the latter part of the Mutiny campaign. During the last 

 five years of his service, which ended in 1895, he was 

 Hon. Colonel Commanding the 3rd Battn. Lincolnshire 

 Regiment. Long before his retirement from the Army, 

 Colonel Mason had interested himself in the public life and 

 many of the commercial undertakings of Lincolnshire. 

 He was a Magistrate and for some time Chairman of Petty 

 Sessions, and a Director of Joseph Rodgers & Sons of 

 Sheffield and Clayton & Shuttleworth and of other well- 

 known companies. 



As regards ornithology he had a valuable collection of 

 albino birds, as well as of albinos in other groups of 

 animals. This remains in the posse>sion of his sou Richard, 

 to whom it was bequeathed. He was also a good shot and 

 a well-known sportsman in Lincolnshire. 



Sir Henry James Johnson, 



Sir Henry J. Johnson, who died from pneumonia at his 

 house in Sloane Grardens, S.W., on the 1st of March, 1917, 

 was elected a member of the B. O. U. in 1915. We regret 

 that a notice of his death has not been previously given. 



The son of Manuel John Johnson of Oxford, Radcliffe 

 Observer, Sir H. Johnson was born in 1851 and was 

 educated at Oxford where he graduated M.A. He was 

 admitted Solicitor in 1879. He was eventually the head 

 of the well-known firm of Waltons, Solicitors to the 

 Corporation of Lloyds and to many of the principal 

 shipping firms. He was President of the Law Society in 

 1910-11, in which latter year he was knighted. 



