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Mason, Richard Sharp

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1795, in West Indies. In 1829 he was elected president of Hobart college of New York, having the previous year become rector of St.

Matthew's at that place. In 1835 he was called to be the head of a similar educational institution at Newark, Del. In 1840 he returned to North Carolina, having been called to the rectorship of Christ church, Raleigh, where he labored for thirty-five years until his death. He was the author of A Letter to the Bishop of North Carolina on the Subject of his Late Pastoral; and The Baptism of Infants Defended from the Objections of Anti-Pædobaptists. He died in 1875 in Raleigh, N. C.