| Code | DS/UK/20111 |
| Name | Mason; Angela Margaret (9 August 1944); CBE; British civil servant, activist and former director of Stonewall |
| Variations of Name | Angela Margaret Weir |
| Dates | 9 August 1944 |
| Gender | Female |
| Place of Birth/Origin | High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England (born) |
| Relationships | Partner of Elizabeth Wilson (Marxist academic)
Former spouse of William Mason (scriptwriter) |
| Biography | Angela Margaret Mason CBE is a British civil servant and activist, and a former director of the UK-based lesbian, gay and bisexual lobbying organisation Stonewall. She is currently the Chair of the Fawcett Society, a UK women's rights campaigning organisation and a Labour Party councillor in Camden.
She was one of the Stoke Newington Eight charged with planting or sending bombs aimed at government Ministers, their families and Conservative Party officials. She was one of the four accused who was acquitted following a long and still controversial trial. Mason still refuses to discuss the trial in interviews today.
Mason was an activist in the trade union and radical movements. |