Masson, John (2)
Masson, John
a minister of the Reformed Church, who was a native of France, whence he emigrated to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He then settled in Holland, and assisted in a critical journal entitled Histoire Critique de la Republique de Lettres from 1712 to 1721. He also wrote lives of Horace, Ovid, and Pliny the Younger, in Latin; and Histoire de Pierre Huyle et de ses Ouvrages (12mo). He died in England about 1760.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Masson, John (2)
an English Congregational minister, was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, October 29, 1806. His education was received in King’s College, Aberdeen, and Homerton College, London. In 1834 he began his labors as a minister of the Gospel, and served successively Harray in Orkney, Brechin, Letham, and Dundee, retiring in 1878. In 1876 he was chairman of the Congregational Union of Scotland, and from 1868 to 1870 one of the secretaries of the Ministers’ Provident Fund. He was also, for a time, editor of the Scottish Congregational Magazine, and also of the publications of the Scottish Temperance League. He died February 20, 1893. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1894.