program to assist the working class, such as labour exchanges, wage boards and free meals for schoolchildren. Historians have puzzled as to his ability to lose elections that had been prearranged for him. He had psychological problems, such as severe mood swings and mental health problems, and his public demeanour often struck observers as cynical and self-righteous. John Buchan described Masterman as "one of the most brilliant, misunderstood, and tragically fated men of his time". Personal life In 1908, Masterman married Lucy Blanche Lyttelton, poet,” and writer, later a politician, daughter of General Sir Neville Lyttelton. She was the author of A Book of Wild Things (1910), Poems (1913), and London from the Bus-top (1951); she also edited Mary Gladstone (Mrs Drew): her diaries and letters (1930). They had three children: Margaret Mary Masterman (4 May 1910 - 1 April 1986), a British linguist and philosopher most known for her pioneering work in the field of computational linguistics and especially machine translation. She founded the Cambridge Language Research Unit and was a founding Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Neville Charles Masterman (1912 - 2019), an academic historian at Swansea University. He served in the Second World War and was transferred to Bletchley Park where he learned Japanese to help with translation. Neville went to Westminster School and read Theology at Christ's College, Cambridge, his father's college. Dorothy Hilda Masterman (1914 - 1981). Lucy Masterman's biography of her husband was published in 1939. The Masterman Papers are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. Election results See also Liberalism in the United Kingdom References Further reading David, E. I. "Charles Masterman and the Swansea District By-Election, 1915." Welsh History Review= Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru 5 (1970): 31+. Hopkins, Eric. Charles Masterman (1873-1927), politician and journalist: the splendid failure (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999). Mason, Francis M. "Charles Masterman and National Health Insurance." Albion 10#1 (1978): 54–75. Masterman, Lucy Blanche Lyttelton. C. F. G. Masterman: a biography (London: Nicholson and Watson, 1939); well researched account by his widow, Matthew, H. C. G. "Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney (1873–1927)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2015 accessed 2 Aug 2016 Stapleton, Julia. "The new liberal vision of C.F.G. Masterman: religion, politics and literature in early twentieth-century Britain." Modern intellectual history. 17.1 (2020): 85-115. online External links Tennyson as a Religious Teacher (1900) The Child and Religion article