William Temple Thomson Mason

William Temple Thomson Mason (July 24, 1782 – 1862) was a Virginia farmer and businessman.

Early life William Temple Thomson Mason was born on July 24, 1782, at Raspberry Plain. "Temple", as his family called him, was Thomson Mason's third child and youngest son with his second wife Elizabeth Westwood Wallace. He was named after his father's English cousin, Sir William Temple.

Mason served one term in the Virginia House of Delegates, from 1830 to 1831, temporarily displacing veteran James McIlhaney.

Two of Temple Mason's sons and one of his daughters, Templeanna (1813–1849), died before the American Civil War. The same Leesburg, Virginia graveyard contains the remains of his sons Thomas Henry Carroll Mason (1822–1838) and Westwood Thomson Mason (1819–1854), the latter of whom died in Savannah, Georgia. Charles Carroll Mason (d. 1866) and Nicholas Carroll Mason (1810 - 1874) did not serve in either army in that conflict and are also buried in that cemetery; likewise William Temple Thomson Mason, Jr. (1800–1891), who would die and be buried in Tennessee. William T.T. Mason's daughter Eliza Mason Welch (1820–1899) married in Maryland in 1836 but spent most of her adult years and died in Iowa. In the 1850 U.S. Federal census, Mason owned more than a dozen enslaved people. William T.T. Mason of Washington, D.C. owned at least four enslaved people in 1860, a 5 year old black girl, 16 year old mulatto woman and 30 and 59 year old black and mulatto males.

Later life On January 2, 1857, six years after the death of his wife, and at the age of 75, Temple sold Temple Hall to Henry A. Ball for the sum of $50,000 (~$ in ) and retired to Georgetown in Washington, D.C. Temple Mason died in 1862 and was interred in the Old Episcopal Churchyard in Leesburg.

Children Temple and his wife Ann had at least eleven children: Temple Anna Mason (1813–June 5, 1849) Nicholas Carroll Mason (died May 3, 1873) Euphan Mason Ann Elizabeth Carroll Thomson Mason Magill (1815–September 13, 1844) Westwood Thomson Mason (1819–1853) William Temple Thomson Mason, Jr. (1820–December 31, 1891) Thomas Henry Carroll Mason (c. 1822–January 28, 1838) Maria Louisa Mason Mary Carter Mason (died 1897) John Thomson Mason (1827–June 2, 1891) Charles Carroll Mason (died August 28, 1866)

Relations William Temple Thomson Mason was a nephew of George Mason (1725–1792); son of Thomson Mason (1733–1785); half-brother of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760–1803) and John Thomson Mason (1765–1824); first cousin of George Mason V (1753–1796); first cousin once removed of Thomson Francis Mason (1785–1838), George Mason VI (1786–1834), Richard Barnes Mason (1797–1850), and James Murray Mason (1798–1871); uncle of Armistead Thomson Mason (1787–1819), John Thomson Mason (1787–1850), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. (1815–1873); and great uncle of Stevens Thomson Mason (1811–1843).