Masson, John

Masson, John a minister of the Reformed Church, who was a native of France, whence he emigrated to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He then settled in Holland, and assisted in a critical journal entitled Histoire Critique de la Republique de Lettres from 1712 to 1721. He also wrote lives of Horace, Ovid, and Pliny the Younger, in Latin; and Histoire de Pierre Huyle et de ses Ouvrages (12mo). He died in England about 1760.