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Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 Dulwich
Dulwich

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, London
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 - 22 November 1948 London
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) was a British
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 author
Author

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 and politician
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. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by United Kingdom writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title....
.

Life
He studied at Dulwich College
Dulwich College

Dulwich College is a selective independent school for boys in Dulwich, a suburb of south-east London, United Kingdom. The College was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan era actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of "God's Gift"....
 and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford
Trinity College, Oxford

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope , or Trinity College for short, is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England....
 in 1888.






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Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 Dulwich
Dulwich

Dulwich is an affluent area of South East London. The settlement is mostly in the London Borough of Southwark with parts in the London Borough of Lambeth....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 - 22 November 1948 London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 and politician
Politician

A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by United Kingdom writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title....
.

Life


He studied at Dulwich College
Dulwich College

Dulwich College is a selective independent school for boys in Dulwich, a suburb of south-east London, United Kingdom. The College was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan era actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of "God's Gift"....
 and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford
Trinity College, Oxford

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope , or Trinity College for short, is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England....
 in 1888. He was a contemporary of fellow Liberal Anthony Hope
Anthony Hope

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope , was an English people novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau ....
, who went on to write the adventure novel
Adventure novel

The adventure novel is a genre of novel that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction....
 The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, 1894 in literature. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situat...
.

His first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, was published in 1895. He is the author of more than twenty books, including At The Villa Rose
At the Villa Rose (novel)

At the Villa Rose is a 1910 detective novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason featuring his character Inspector Hanaud....
 (1910), where he introduced his French detective, Hanaud. His best known book is the The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by United Kingdom writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title....
, which had been made into several films. Many consider it his masterpiece. Other books are The House of the Arrow
The House of the Arrow

The House of the Arrow is a 1924 detective novel by United Kingdom writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired several films of the same title....
 (1924), No Other Tiger (1927), The Prisoner in the Opal (1929) and Fire Over England
Fire Over England

Fire Over England is a 1937 in film London Film Productions film drama, notable for providing the first pairing of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh....
 (1937). He contributed a short story, The Conjurer, to The Queen's Book of the Red Cross
The Queen's Book of the Red Cross

The Queen's Book of the Red Cross was published in November 1939 in afundraising effort to aid the Red Cross during World War II.The book was sponsored by Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and its...
.

Mason was elected as a Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
 Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament

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 for Coventry
Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)

Coventry was a borough constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. Centred on the City of Coventry, it returned two Member of Parliament from 1295 until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when its representation was reduced to one....
 in the 1906 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1906

The United Kingdom general election of 1906 was held from 12 January to 8 February 1906.The Liberal Party , led by sitting minority Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won a large majority in the election....
. He served only a single term in Parliament, retiring at the next general election
General election

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  in January 1910.

Mason served with the Manchester Regiment in the First World War, being promoted Captain
Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

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 in December 1914. He transferred to the General List in 1915 and the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1917 with the rank of Major
Major

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. His military career included work in naval intelligence, serving in Spain
Spain

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 and Mexico
Mexico

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, where he set up counter-espionage networks on behalf of the British government.

He died in 1948 while working on a non-fiction book about Admiral Robert Blake
Robert Blake (admiral)

Robert Blake was one of the most important military commanders of the Commonwealth of England, and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century....
. Mason had been offered a knighthood but declined it declaring that honours meant nothing to a childless man.

Books


Novels featuring Inspector Hanaud

  • At the Villa Rose
    At the Villa Rose (novel)

    At the Villa Rose is a 1910 detective novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason featuring his character Inspector Hanaud....
     (1910)
  • The House of the Arrow
    The House of the Arrow

    The House of the Arrow is a 1924 detective novel by United Kingdom writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired several films of the same title....
     (1924)
  • The Prisoner in the Opal (1928)
  • They Wouldn't Be Chessmen (1934)
  • The House in Lordship Lane (1946)


Other novels

  • The Courtship of Maurice Buckler (1896)
  • Lawrence Clavering (1897)
  • The Philanderers (1897)
  • Parson Kelly (1899) (with Andrew Lang
    Andrew Lang

    Andrew Lang was a prolific Scotland man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the folkloristics of folklore and fairy tales....
    )
  • Clementina (1901)
  • The Four Feathers
    The Four Feathers

    The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by United Kingdom writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title....
     (1902)
  • The Truants (1904)
  • Running Water (1906)
  • The Broken Road (1907)
  • A Romance of Wastdale (1910)
  • Miranda of the Balcony (1911)
  • The Turnstile (1912)
  • The Witness for the Defence (1913)
  • The Summons (1920)
  • The Watchers (1924)
  • The Winding Stair (1924)
  • No Other Tiger (1927)
  • The Dean's Elbow (1930)
  • The Three Gentlemen (1932)
  • The Sapphire (1933)
  • Fire Over England
    Fire Over England

    Fire Over England is a 1937 in film London Film Productions film drama, notable for providing the first pairing of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh....
     (1936)
  • The Drum (1937)
  • Konigsmark (1938)
  • Musk and Amber (1942)
  • The Crystal Trench (2001)


External links

  • at Project Gutenberg
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