Alfred Edward Woodley

A.E.W. Mason Major Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 Dulwich, London - 22 November 1948 London) was a British author and politician. He studied at Dulwich College and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1888. He was a contemporary of fellow Liberal Anthony Hope, who went on to write the adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda. His first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, was published in 1895. He was the author of more than 20 books, including At The Villa Rose (1924), No Other Tiger (1927), The Prisoner in the Opal (1929) and Fire Over England (1937), all published as Hodder yellowjackets.