Aland Mason
Aland John Mason, Male 1716 - 26 March 1759
Born, of City of Waterford, Co Waterford, Ireland.
Died, of City of Waterford, Co Waterford, Ireland.
Father of George Mason-Villiers and Son Mason and Son Mason and Son Mason and Son Mason and Daughter Mason and Son Mason and Son Mason. Son of John Mason and Sarah Aland.
Villiers-Stuart Papers. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. (MIC/464 and T/3131) Summary.ear at the time of his marriage to Lady Elizabeth Villiers in 1739, consisted of land, as well as of urban property in Waterford City; and his grandfather had sat in parliament for the county of Waterford - actually, alongside the 1st Earl Grandison's step-father, General Steuart. t deaths in the Grandison family, notably the death in 1746 of Lord Grandison's second and last surviving son, Viscount Villiers, that she became sole heiress-apparent to her father, and accordingly was created Viscountess, later Countess, Grandison in her own right with remainder to her heirs male. s re-settlement, these estates were to pass on his death (which took place in 1759) to his and Lady Grandison's only son; '... in case he [the son] fails, ... to any other children, male or female, that Lady Grandison may have by any other husband; in failure of all children, to her Ladyship; and, should she fail, the whole to the present Earl of Grandison [her father] and his right heirs.' In other words, he cut his own collateral Mason relations (apart from the possible children of an actually childless uncle) out of the succession to the Mason estate. e in Ireland just over £7,000, with another £1,000 from a smallish Grandison property in Hertfordshire, the manor of Bramfield. Had Mason's son died, the Mason estate would have passed, either to a child of the second marriage which Lady Grandison made in 1763 or, more probably, to a Villiers kinsman of Lord Grandison. Even as things turned out, the Mason name and inheritance were subsumed: in 1771, before he actually succeeded to the Grandison estates and as 2nd Earl Grandison, Mason's son added the name Villiers to his patronymic.
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