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Roy Mason

The Right Honourable
The Lord Mason of Barnsley
PC DL
Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office
14 July 1979 – 24 November 1981
Prime Minister James Callaghan
Michael Foot
Preceded by John Silkin
Succeeded by Norman Buchan
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office
4 May 1979 – 14 July 1979
Prime Minister James Callaghan
Preceded by Humphrey Atkins
Succeeded by Brynmor John
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office
10 September 1976 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister James Callaghan
Preceded by Merlyn Rees
Succeeded by Humphrey Atkins
Secretary of State for Defence
In office
4 March 1974 – 10 September 1976
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Preceded by Ian Gilmour
Succeeded by Fred Mulley
President of the Board of Trade
In office
6 October 1969 – 19 June 1970
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Preceded by Anthony Crosland
Succeeded by Michael Noble
Minister of Power
In office
1 July 1968 – 6 October 1969
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Preceded by Ray Gunter
Succeeded by Office Abolished
Postmaster General
In office
6 April 1968 – 1 July 1968
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Preceded by Edward Short
Succeeded by John Stonehouse
Minister of Defence for Equipment
In office
7 January 1967 – 6 April 1968
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Preceded by Office Created
Succeeded by John Morris
Minister of State for Trade
In office
20 October 1964 – 7 January 1967
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Succeeded by Joseph Mallalieu
Member of Parliament
for Barnsley Central
Barnsley (1953–1983)
In office
31 March 1953 – 11 June 1987
Preceded by Sidney Schofield
Succeeded by Eric Illsley
Personal details
Born (1924-04-18)18 April 1924
Royston, United Kingdom
Died 19 April 2015(2015-04-19) (aged 91)
Political party Labour
Alma mater London School of Economics

Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC, DL (18 April 1924 – 19 April 2015) was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet minister who was Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the late 1970s.

He was born in Royston on 18 April 1924, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley, in South Yorkshire. Mason first went down the mines at the age of fourteen and he became a branch official of the National Union of Mineworkers in his early twenties. Aged 26 he studied at the London School of Economics as a mature student on a Trades Union Congress scholarship. He remained in the coal industry until he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Barnsley constituency at a by-election in 1953.

Mason was Labour Party spokesman on Home Affairs, Defence and Post Office, 1960-1964. Minister of State at the Board of Trade, 1964-1967. Minister of Defence (Equipment), 1967-1968. Minister of Power, 1968-1969. President of the Board of Trade, 1969-1970. Secretary of State for Defence, 1974-1976. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1976–1979


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