Sir John Mason bust by John Cheere Codrington Library, All Souls, Oxford

The Codrington Library 24 Plaster Busts by John Cheere, 

All Souls College, Oxford University.

Part 25. Sir John Mason (1503 - 66).

First Lay Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1552 -56 and 1559 - 64.

MP for Reading 1547.

For a useful biog. from Dictionary of National Biography 1909 see - http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/mason.htm

For a good general history of All Souls see - 

All Souls College by C.Grant Robertson 1899
available on line and easily searchable.

https://archive.org/stream/allsoulscollege01robe#page/n9/mode/2up


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Posthumous portrait of Sir John Mason
attrib. Samson Strong
Oil on Panel.

88.8 x 71.2 cms

Commissioned by the Governors in 1607.

Christs Hospital, Abingdon.

The Cheere bust below is obviously derived from this portrait.
I can find no other contemporary or 18th century images of Sir John Mason.

Monument to Sir John Mason
St Paul's Cathedral


Image British Museum