Philip Brookes Mason
1842–1903
Physician and naturalist. MB, London, 1862. Demonstrator in anatomy, University College, London, 1864–7. In 1866, during a cholera epidemic, in charge of a temporary Hospital for Children in London. Practised in Burton-on-Trent from 1867. Surgeon, Burton-on-Trent Dispensary, 1868–1901; and Infirmary, 1870. Collected insects, particularly beetles, and acquired several collections for which he built a private museum. Owned a large herbarium of British plants.
Sources
Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 40 (1904): 17–18
Lancet, 14 November 1903, pp. 1405–6
Medical directory.
Bibliography
Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.
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