Philip Mason

This article is about the official and author Philip Mason. For other people, see Phil Mason .

Philip Mason OBE CIE (March 19, 1906 - January 25, 1999 ) was an English civil servant and historian. He became best known for The Men Who Ruled India , which he published under the pseudonym Philip Woodruff . In the two-volume work on British India he mentions, among others, John Morley , the Secretary of State for India, the British Minister for India in the cabinet of Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905-1908). Mason attended Sedbergh School, a boarding school in Sedbergh, Cumbria.

Mason was the first director of the Institute of Race Relations , a think tank in the UK . The institute was founded in 1958 to publish research results on racial relations worldwide. In 1972 it was converted into an "anti-racist think tank".

More publishments:

• Common sense about race. Gollancz, London 1961.
• A Shaft of Sunlight: memories of a varied life. Autobiography. German, London 1978, ISBN 0-233-96955-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review: Reviews . In: New Blackfriars . 43, No. 500, 1962, pp. 95-103. doi : 10.1111 / j.1741-2005.1962.tb00797.x .
2. ↑ Review: MF: Common Sense about Race . In: The British Journal of Sociology . 41, No. 1, 1963, p. 97. JSTOR 587349 587349 .
3. ↑ Review: Margaret Cornell: Common Sense about Race . In: International Affairs . 38, No. 4, 1962, pp. 551-552. JSTOR 2609650 2609650 .
4. ↑ Review: Kenneth Younger: Book Reviews: Common Sense about Race by Philip Mason, London, Gollancz, 1961 . In: Race & Class . 3, No. 1, 1961, p. 99. doi : 10.1177 / 030639686100300121 .

literature

• Hugh Tinker: Last witness to the Raj . In: The Guardian , February 3, 1999. Retrieved October 1, 2012. Obituary 
• Roland Olive: Obituary: Philip Mason . In: The Independent , February 2, 1999. Retrieved October 1, 2012. 
• Philip Mason: obituary . In: Daily Telegraph , January 29, 1999. Retrieved October 1, 2012. Transcribed from Rootsweb