Early Life and Education
Richard Chichester Mason was born at Newington in Fairfax County, Virginia on 7 May 1793. Mason was the son of Thomson Mason (1759–1820) and his wife Sarah McCarty Chichester.
Mason attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and graduated with his Doctor of Medicine in 1816. Mason's doctoral thesis was on menstruation.
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