Beverley Randolph Mason was a renowned educator and founder and principal of the Gunston Hall School for young women in Washington, D.C. Mason was a greatgrandson of George Mason, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights.
Mason was born at Okeley Manor in Fairfax County, Virginia onSeptember 1834. He was a son of Dr. Richard Chichester Mason and his wife Lucy Bolling Randolph.
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