Kenneth MasonMC (10 September 1887 – 2 June 1976) was a soldier and geographer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work surveying the Himalayas was rewarded in 1927 with a Royal Geographic SocietyFounder's Medal, the citation reading for his connection between the of surveys of India and Russian Turkestan, and his leadership of the Shaksgam Expedition.