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Biographical Sketch Of The Late Brother Peter Gilkes.
alike honourable to humanity and Freemasonry , —to whose science he was an ornament , to whose princi ples his exertions were devoted . Brother PETER WILLIAM GILKES was born on the 1 st of May , ¦ 1765 , in the neighbourhood of Carnahy Market , and baptised a member of the Catholic church in the same year ; he was
named after the late Lord Petre , who had been an excellent friend to his family . His parents were respectable persons in an humble line of business , which he himself followed till the death of his mother . By his industry and perseverance he acquired a small property , the interest o £ which amounted to about nine shillings per clay . Finding himself independent , and being of an
unambitious nature , he determined to retire from business and devote himself to pursuits more congenial to his disposition ; his accounts were soon closed . He engaged a single room , which he furnished plainly , and arranged with Hannah , an old faithful servant of his late mother , to attend to his apartment , and i _ repare
his frugal meals . Few lives present a lesson of more jaerfect contentment and real j ) hilosoj ) h y than the conduct of our late hrother ; young—in possession of a business in which a competency had already heen gained , and in which comparative wealth appeared utterly attainable , he resigned the tempting prospect for leisure to cultivate his mind , and improve the interests of his
fellow-creatures . The funeral of a distinguished brother , whom the Craft honoured hy a public procession , first directed his attention to Masonry ; enquiry satisfied his mind of the utility ancl benevolent views of the Order , ancl he was initiated in the year 1786 , at the age of twenty-one , in the British Lodge , now No . 8 of the Craft . Delighted with the science , he devoted his energies and
time to qualify himself for those honours which Masonry holds out for the deserving , and to the attainment of which vice and idleness present the onl y barrier ; as a fact honourable to the Order , it cannot be too generally known , that its highest offices are equally open to the honest intelligent citizen as the prince and peer . * The Lodge of Unity , now 82 , satisfied with his .
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Biographical Sketch Of The Late Brother Peter Gilkes.
alike honourable to humanity and Freemasonry , —to whose science he was an ornament , to whose princi ples his exertions were devoted . Brother PETER WILLIAM GILKES was born on the 1 st of May , ¦ 1765 , in the neighbourhood of Carnahy Market , and baptised a member of the Catholic church in the same year ; he was
named after the late Lord Petre , who had been an excellent friend to his family . His parents were respectable persons in an humble line of business , which he himself followed till the death of his mother . By his industry and perseverance he acquired a small property , the interest o £ which amounted to about nine shillings per clay . Finding himself independent , and being of an
unambitious nature , he determined to retire from business and devote himself to pursuits more congenial to his disposition ; his accounts were soon closed . He engaged a single room , which he furnished plainly , and arranged with Hannah , an old faithful servant of his late mother , to attend to his apartment , and i _ repare
his frugal meals . Few lives present a lesson of more jaerfect contentment and real j ) hilosoj ) h y than the conduct of our late hrother ; young—in possession of a business in which a competency had already heen gained , and in which comparative wealth appeared utterly attainable , he resigned the tempting prospect for leisure to cultivate his mind , and improve the interests of his
fellow-creatures . The funeral of a distinguished brother , whom the Craft honoured hy a public procession , first directed his attention to Masonry ; enquiry satisfied his mind of the utility ancl benevolent views of the Order , ancl he was initiated in the year 1786 , at the age of twenty-one , in the British Lodge , now No . 8 of the Craft . Delighted with the science , he devoted his energies and
time to qualify himself for those honours which Masonry holds out for the deserving , and to the attainment of which vice and idleness present the onl y barrier ; as a fact honourable to the Order , it cannot be too generally known , that its highest offices are equally open to the honest intelligent citizen as the prince and peer . * The Lodge of Unity , now 82 , satisfied with his .