Mason, Sir Josiah, Birmingham manufacturer and philanthropist, born at Kidderminster; made his fortune by split rings, steel pens, electro-plating; founded an orphanage at Erdington at the cost of nearly £300,000, and the college at Birmingham which bears his name (1795‒1881).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Maskelyne, Nevil * Mason, William