Paul Mason

Who is Paul Mason?

Sir Paul Mason KCMG KCVO was a British diplomat, ambassador to the Netherlands from 1954 to 1960 and the British Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council from 1960 to 1962.

The son of Arthur James Mason, he was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, taking a first class honours degree in Modern History in 1926.

Joining the Foreign Service in 1928, Mason had overseas postings to Brussels, Sofia, Prague, Ottawa, and Lisbon and also home posts at the Foreign Office in London. He was assistant private secretary to the Foreign Secretary, 1934–1936, then private secretary to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, 1936–37. He was an acting Counsellor in 1945, then British Minister at Sofia, 1949–1951, before being recalled to London as assistant Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office from 1951 to 1954. He was British Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1954–1960, then Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council, 1960–1962 and an Alternate Delegate to the Minister of State in the Geneva Delegation on Disarmament and Nuclear Tests, 1962–1964.