Neale

Neale. John Mason (1818-1866), a noted English hymnologist, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1842 he was ordained to a cure at Crawley, and in 1845 was appointed Warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead. In 1856 he founded the Sisterhood of St. Margaret. He wrote a History of the Eastern Church, Mediceval Preachers, History of the Jansenist Church of Holland, and many interesting short stories and legends; but it is for his hymns, original and translated, that he is chiefly known, among them being The day is past and over and Jerusalem the golden.