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.