J. M. Good

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Short Name:	J. M. Good
Full Name:	Good, J. M. (John Mason), 1764–1827
Birth Year:	1764
Death Year:	1827

Good, John Mason, M.D., son of an Independent minister, was born at Epping, Essex, in 1761, and educated for the medical profession. He became F.R.S. 1805 and M.D. 1820. He wrote largely on medical, theological, and classical subjects. He died in 1827, and his Memoirs, by Dr. Gregory, were published in 1828.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Wikipedia Biography

John Mason Good (25 May 1764 – 2 January 1827), English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects, was born at Epping, Essex. John Good's parents were the Nonconformist minister Revd Peter Good and Sarah Good, the daughter of another Nonconformist minister, Revd Henry Peyto of Great Coggeshall. John Mason Good was named after the Puritan clergyman and hymn writer John Mason (1645-1694), of whom his mother Sarah was a descendant.

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