Captain Thomas Monck-Mason

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He was a son of Henry Monck Mason, lieutenant-colonel of the Engineers, by his second wife, Jane Mosse (daughter of Bartholomew Mosse, founder of the Rotunda hospital). Thomas's early years were at a French speaking school; he may have had Huguenot blood. Thomas had a reputation within the family as a 'foolhardy' young man, heading to sea aged 12 and, by his own words, spent his naval years indulging in the many vices prevalent in the Royal Navy at that time. Shortly before his marriage to Dorothea Burgh, his life was turned around and he was from then on 'led by divine grace'. Alas, Dorothea died in 1820 shortly after the birth of Frances Florinda. Some 2-3 years later, Thomas married Mary Grey (daughter of the Commissioner of Portsmouth dockyard Sir George Grey, and niece of the future prime minister, Charles Grey) . Mary's mother (Lady Grey, nee Whitbread) was much involved with the Evangelical movement at that time, so this fitted with Thomas' new found discipline. Thomas Monck Mason died in 1838 and was buried in Powerscourt.