SIR THOMAS MASON
SON of John Mason, builder, and born at Airdrie in 1844, the
late Lord Dean of Guild was educated at Anderson's Academy in Glasgow. In his
seventeenth year he was a journeyman mason, and he was engaged in railway
construction, latterly as manager, for 13 years. In 1876, along with Mr. John
Morrison, he established the firm of Morrison & Mason. Among their works are the
Glasgow City Chambers, the Clyde Trust Offices, the new Glasgow Bridge, Carlisle
and Paisley Stations, the Coats Memorial Church, Paisley, and the John Clark U.F.
Church, Largs. They constructed the Canal Line, the Cathcart Railway,
Craigmaddie Reservoir and Tunnels, and they raised Thirlmere Lake and made 26
miles of the Manchester Aqueduct.
Among the offices Sir Thomas has held are those of Sub-Dean
of Guild, Clyde Trustee, Director of the Merchants' House, Town Councillor, and
Deacon-Convener of the Trades' House. He is a Justice of the Peace and
Deputy-Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow. His amusements are music
and curling, and he has travelled on the Continent and in Egypt and America. He
is a Liberal in politics and received the honour of Knighthood in June, 1909.
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