Ross Masood was the son of
Syed Mahmood. His grandfather was Sir
Syed Ahmed Khan. On his return from England, Masood was elected a trustee of
Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College and started his own legal practice in
Patna. He then entered the
Indian Education Service as headmaster of the Patna High School, a professor of history at
Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (Orissa), and one of the founders of
Osmania University. He became the
Vice-Chancellor of
Aligarh Muslim University in 1929. He was knighted by the British Government in the 1933 Birthday Honours list. Here, he introduced new courses, upgraded the syllabi and established laboratories for various science subjects.
Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu published a biography of Masood in 2011. He was the president of
Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu. A residential hall constructed in the year 1969 in
Aligarh Muslim University is named after him. Ross Masood was linked to the British novelist
E. M. Forster. Forster's novel
A Passage to India (1924) is dedicated to Masood. ==References==