in the American Civil War John Landis Mason (1832–1902), who patented glass-threaded mason jars used in food preservation John Mason (historian) (1920–2009), British historian and Oxford academic John Mason (schoolmaster) (born 1945), Indian educationist John Mason (astronomer), former president of the British Astronomical Association Minor planet 6092 Johnmason, named after him John Mason (master), master of the Prince of Wales in the First Fleet Other uses John Mason School, a secondary school in Abingdon, UK. See also Mason (surname) John Thomson Mason (disambiguation) Jonathan Mason (disambiguation)