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Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman was born on October 24, 1873, in London, England.

He was a British Liberal politician and author. He was educated at Weymouth College and Christ's College, Cambridge. As one of the best speakers, he became President of the Cambridge Union and joint Secretary of Cambridge University Liberal Club from 1895 to 1896. In 1897, he was awarded the Arnold Gerstenberg scholarship, returned to Cambridge and, in 1900, he was elected a fellow. He published books "From the Abyss" (1902) and "In Peril of Change" (1905) and contributed articles to the Independent Review, The Pilot, The Commonwealth, the Daily News, The Speaker, and The Nation. He was elected as Member of Parliament for West Ham North (1906-1910) and Bethnal Green South West (1911-1914). Masterman played a major role in writing parts of the Finance Bill, the Development Bill, the Shop Hours Bill, and the Coal Mines Bill and was responsible for the passage through parliament of the National Insurance Act 1911. In 1914, he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a post he held until 1915. From 1914 to 1917, with a background in journalism, he served as Head of the British War Propaganda Bureau, known as Wellington House. Masterman played a crucial role in publicizing reports of the Armenian genocide to strengthen the moral case against the Ottoman Empire. After a few unsuccessful attempts to get reelected in the early 1920s, he focused on writing and published several books, e.g., "How England is Governed" (1921) and "England after War" (1922).

In 1908, he married Lucy Blanche Lyttelton (1884–1977). He died on November 17, 1927, in London, England.

Montrealer Philippe Masson was born on October 4, 1911, in Terrebonne, Quebec, the son of Joseph Masson, Seigneur of Terrebonne, now a vibrant community northeast of Montreal. Little is known about the life of Philippe Masson apart from the fact that he suffered from a chronic illness and died at the age of 32 on August 1, 1944. His remains are buried in the Parish church in Terrebonne. Despite his illness, he developed an interest in the collecting of ephemera. He developed a passion for the collection of bookplates, which he pursued in a single-minded fashion. In addition, he methodically catalogued and described his collection in fifteen volumes.

Louis Rodrigue Masson (baptized Louis-François-Roderick) was born in 1833 in Terrebonne, Lower Canada, and died in November 1903, in Montreal. He was the son of Joseph Masson and Marie-Geneviève-Sophie Raymond and had two brothers named Wilfrid and Isidore-Édouard-Candide. In 1856, Masson married Louise-Rachel McKenzie, the daughter of Marie-Louise Trottier Desrivières and Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander McKenzie of Terrebonne. They had ten children, five of whom reached adulthood. In 1883, Masson married Cecile Burroughs, the daughter of Léda Larue and John Henry Ross Burroughs, who was a prothonotary at the Superior Court of Quebec. They had three children. Masson became head of the Masson clan and administrator of its assets, including the property, the seigneurial mill, and the various enterprises bequeathed to him by his father. Although the seigneurial regime was abolished in 1854, the Masson family remained identified as a seigneurial family. In the unrest that followed when Rupert’s Land was acquired by Canada in 1869, Masson opposed his colleagues in the name of the rights of the Métis and First Nations. In 1871, he defended the Catholics that demanded that the federal government disallow the provincial law.