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PROVINCE OF KENTrpUE ANNUAL I'EOVINCIAL GEAND LODGE OF KENT will bo hold at the Foresters' ( tall , l / niou Crescent . Margate , on Wednesday , aavil June , when and where the Provincial Grand Officers and Vast Officers , with the Worshipful Masters , Past Musters , and Wardens , of the Lodges in tho Province , are hereby convoked to attend . By Order of tho R . W . I ' rov . G . M . VISCOUNT HOLMESDALR , ALFRED SPKN-CER , Maidstone , 27 th May 1880 . Prov . G . Sec . The Arrangements of the Committer at Hartjate J ' nr the Festintl ore : — LODGE at the Foresters'Hall 12 ' 0 noon . SEBvrcE at St . Paul ' s Church , Oliftonville 1 ' 30 p . m . B ANQUBT at tho Assembly Rooms , Cecil Square , Tickets 10 s ( id each , including Wine , Dessert , and Waiters 3 "J 0 p . m .

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KOYAL FOREST OF EPPING . THE FOREST HOTEL , CHINGFORD , Close to Chingford Station—Thirty-five Minutes by frequent Trains from Liverpool Street , City , and adjoining the ancient Hunting Lodgo of Queen Elizabeth . THIS picturesque and sumptuously appointed Hotel stands amid tho most beautiful scenery of Epping Forest , is easily accessible from London , and its lofty and handsomely furnished Elizabethan Dining Hall is admirably adapted for Masonio banquets , while another room is appropriate for Lodge meetings . The great Banqueting Hall will accommodate from fifty to eighty persons , while for small parties one of a suite of artistically appointed private rooms will bo specially reserved . In tho Tea Room , Table d'Hote , Luncheons and Dinners daily . Applications to Frank Jesse , Manager , Forest Hotel , Chingford , Essex .

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— : o : — DISTINGUISHED NAVAL AND MILITARY BEETHREN .

THE late E . W . Bro . Col . Thomas Wildman , of Newstead Abbey , Prov . G . Master of Notts 1824-59 , saw much active service after joining the army , which he did as Cornet 9 th Lancers in 1808 , exchanging subsequently into the 7 th Hussars . In 1809 he served with Sir John Moore's Array in Spain . Ho was present at all the actions in 1813-14 , and took part in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 as

Aidede-camp to the late Marquis of Anglesea . He retired in 1837 . Col . Wildman was initiated while serving with his regiment abroad . He joined Friendship Lodge , No . G , in 1813 , and Antiquity , No . 2 , in 1819 . In 1824 the late Dnke of Sussex conferred upon him the honourable post of Prov . Grand Master of Notts , and in 1854 the brethren of that Province presented him with a very handsome silver epergne , value two hundred guineas , the late Earl of Scarborough

presiding on the interesting occasion . Col . Wildman died 20 th Sept . 1859 , in his 73 rd year , having been born 27 th Ancrust 1787 . In 1818 he purchased Newstead Abbey of the late Lord Byron ( the poet ) , for somewhat under £ 100 , 000 . Particulars of the abovementioned presentation , & c . will be found in the Freemason ' s Magazine 1855 , pp 103-112 , and in tho same journal for 24 th September and 15 th October 1859 .

The late Admiral Sir Charles Nnpier , K . C . B ., and M . P . Southwark , was a member of our Society . " It is not known , " said the Freemason ' s Magazine of 17 th November 1860 , " when or where Sir Charles was initiated , but a few years since he was a constant , visitor at the Lodge of Friendship , No . f > , whero he was well known . " Onr late brother , who was cousin to the late Bro . Sir Charles Napier , the conqueror of Scinde , was born in 1786 , entered the navy as first class

volunteer in 1799 , was actively engaged till the Peace in 181 n . He next saw service under the Portusupsn Hag , and defeated thp ( Ipot of the pretender Dom Miguel . In 1810 ho took part ns Commodore , under Sir E . Stnpford , in tho bombardment of St . Jean rl'Aere and other operations on the coast of Syria . Ho commanded our fle , ot in the first . campaign in the Baltic in 1854 , and in conjunction with tho French reduced the fortress of Bomarsuud . He died Gth Nov . 1860 .

The late Duke oF Richmond who was Prov . Grand Master of Sussex 1823-1860 , entered the array at , an early age , as ensign in the 52 nd regiment , and served in all the aitions in the Peninsular war from 1810 to 1814 , including Btisaco , Fueutes d' Onor , Ciudad Rodrigo , B idnjoz , Salamanca , Vittoria , the Pyrenees , and others , for which in

1847 he received the war medal with eight clasps . He was also aidede-camp to the Princo of Orange ( Inte King of the Netherlands ) at the battles of Quatre Bias and Waterloo . It was mainly through his Grace ' s exertions that the officers ancl men who had served in the Peninsular campaigns , received the medals , & c . commemorative of j their brilliant , services . Tho lato . Dnke is believed tn havo been

initiated when on service abroad . In 1823 , the same year in which he was appointed by the late Duko of Sussex to bo Prov . G . M . Sussex , he joined tho Onion Lodgo , now No . 38 , Chichester . He was

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in the seventioth vear of his age , having been born 3 rd August 1791 , and died 21 st October I 860 . The lato General "Vernon , born 2 Sth September 1779 , died 22 nd March 1861 , entered the army ni cornet in the 10 th Hussars , 1798 . Tn 1 S 08 he was appointed D A . A . O . to Sir John Moore's army in

bpam . Joined Wolhnsrton in tune for Talavera , 1809 , and took part in ^ alamanon , 1812 , ( gold nudal ) , as well as in other actions . Served subsequently in West Indies and Ionian Islands . Was initiated in tho Lodcre of Harmony , No . 384 , Hampton Court , in 1 S 02 , —now extinct ; and fiftv years later—in 1852—h s son Col . Vernon , lately Prov . Grand Master Staffordshire , was installed W . Master . "At the

installation , also , of Bro . Col . Vernon as W . M . of St . Peter's Lodge , Wolverhampton , his father and two brothers wore all present as P . M . 's , " an nnnsnal occurrence , writes tho Freemason ' s Maiazine . Of his three sons , two . namely , Bros . Henry C . Vernon , and Col . George A . Vernon , have distinsrnished themselves as Past P . G . Masters of Worcestershire and Staffordshire respectively .

Tho late Bro . Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren , ono of tho most distinguished naval officers of tho long war , was succeeded in the Prov . Grand Mastership of Notts by the lato Colonel Wildman . The late Captain Patrick Deuohar , E . N ., who died 11 th May 1869 , was one of six brothers , among them being likewise the eminent Craftsman the late Bro . Alexander Deuohar , of Lodfjn No . 1 oF

Edinbnrsjh . He was initiated 5 th December 1806 , being at the time a midshipman of H . M . S . Seahorse . He fought nnder Nelson at Trafalgar , and took part in the unfortunate Walcheren expedition in 1809 . Ho had filled nearly all the offices in his Lodge , and for the last twenty years of his life had been Grand Director of Ceremonies in tho Grand Lodge of Scotland . He had attained the venerable age of 84 years .

Among Freemasons of to-day who are or wero in the military service of tho Crown , may be mentioned Lord Amherst—lately Viscount Holmesdale—P . G . M . Kent , who was wounded in the Crimea ; General H . E . Doherty , C . B . ; Colonel A . W . A . N . Hood , Major-General Gore B . Mnnbee , Major-General Henry Clerk , E . A . ; Lieut .-Colonel C . Hutton Gresrory , C . M . G . ; Colonel H . T . Duncan , C . S . I . ;

Major-General E . K . Money , E . A . ; Major-General W . D . Aitken , E . A ; Major-General Augustus Fleming ; Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald M . Sartorius , V . C ., C . M . G . ; and Major-General John N . Sargent , C . B . These , with the exception of Lord Amherst , are members of the A . and A . Scottish Rito of England . Major-General Sir James E . Alexander is Past Grand Master Stirlingshire , Scotland ; and the

following , among others , are of the Irish Craft : —Lieutenaufc-Colonel George E . Hillier , C . B . ; Major-General Sir J . J . Hort , Bart ., C . B . ; Major-General Sir H . C . B . Danbeny , K . C . B . ; and Major-General E . A . Whitmore . Major-General Darby Griffiths , C . B ., Represen . tative from Grand Lodge Scotland at the Grand Lodge Ireland , is 32 ° Scotland . A . H . N .

We regret to announce the death of Bro . Sir Stephen Cave , G . C . B ., on whom , shortly before his resignation of office , the Earl of Beaconsfield , at the instance of Her Majesty , conferred the hononr of a baronetcy . Sir Stephen Cave wns horn in the year 1820 , and having entered afc

Balliol College , Oxford , took his degree of B . A . in 1843 , with second class honours in Classics . He was chosen to represent Shoreham in 1859 , and remained its representative till tbe close of the last Parliament . Bro . Sir Stephen Cave was initiated in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , in 1842 .

By the death , at the advanced age of eighty-four , of Sir Eobert Burdett , his cousin , Bro . Colonel Francis Burdett , one of the kindliest and most genial of Masons , succeeds to the honours of the Baronetcy . Bro . Sir F . Burdett , besides being the Masonic chief of Middlesex in

Craft , Arch , and Mark Masonry , is also the representative of the Grand Lodge of Ireland at our Grand Lodge . He has filled the office of Grand Warden of England , is Constable of tne Great Priory of Knights Templar of England and Wales , and ex officio member of the Council , M . IU . Grand Sovereign of Rome and the Red Cross of

Constantino , as well ns Chief Intendant General for Middlesex , Essex , and Surrey , an honorary Vice President of tho Rosicrncian Society , and Inspector General 33 ° for the Southern District A . and A . S . Rite .

The Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Masters of Middlesex and Surrey will be held at the Greyhound Hotel , Hninpton Court , ou Tuesday , the 29 th inst . Bro . Col . Sir Francis Burdett will oc : cupy the chair .

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