Philip Mason

Philip Mason OBE CIE (19 March 1906 – 25 January 1999) was an English civil servant and author who is most known for his two-volume book on the British Raj, The Men Who Ruled India (written under the pseudonym Philip Woodruff).

Mason was the first director of the Institute of Race Relations and was educated at Sedbergh School and Balliol College, Oxford.

In 1978 he published an autobiography: A Shaft of Sunlight: memories of a varied life (Deutsch, ISBN 0233969551).

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