Robert Hindry Mason bap. 6 December 1824 - 7 October 1885
Bap. St. Nicholas, Gt. Yarmouth 6 Dec 1824
Dickens in the Eye of the Beholder Leon Litvack, 2016, with biographical details of R. H. M.
Mason's Norwich General and Commercial Directory & Handbook 1852
Norfolk Photographically Illustrated 1865
October 7.—Died, at his chambers, Great Ormond Street, London, Mr. Robert Hindry Mason, aged 61 years. Mr. Mason had led a busy life as a journalist. He established, edited, and conducted, from 1852 to 1854, the “Greenwich, and West Kent Observer,” owned the “Sunderland Times” and “Sheffield Advertiser,” and subsequently became proprietor of the “London and Eton Gazette.” Some years previously, when a resident in Norwich, he published a work, entitled “Norfolk Photographically Illustrated,” and at the time of his death was engaged upon his best known work, the “History of Norfolk.” (Norfolk Annals Vol. II)