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Rheumatology 2004; 43: 102-103
© British Society for Rheumatology 2004; all rights reserved

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(Richard) Michael Mason, MA, DM, FRCP (1917–1977)

Heberden Historical Series/Series Editor: M. I. V. Jayson

C. G. Barnes

Little Hoopern, Chagford, Devon, TG13 8BZ, UK.

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Richard Michael Mason (Fig. 1), always known as Michael, was born and brought up in India until he entered Marlborough College and later Christ Church, Oxford and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London. He qualified BM, BCh in 1942 in the early years of the Second World War. He escaped injury at St Barts during the blitz when a bomb fell through the block where he had his bedroom as he was on the ward at the time. He gained MA (Oxford) in 1943. Having been a pilot in the Oxford University Air Squadron, he then served as medical officer in the RAF with squadrons 604 and 616 in Germany and Denmark and was demobilized with the rank of Flight Lieutenant.


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  		FIG. 1. (Richard) Michael Mason.

 
On returning to civilian medicine he became medical registrar at St Barts and then turned to rheumatology as chief assistant to Dr W. S. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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