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Robert Thomas Crucefix, Ll.D., P.S.G.D.
narrative , and , enrich its worth , without violating the confidence , which as Masons we must hold most sacred . Robert Thomas Crucefix is no more ; his career of trouble , exertion and tare , is run :
he" Is in his grave ; After life ' s fitful fever he sleeps well ; Nothing Can touch him further . " Ilis career is now history , and , as such may be commented on without personal allusion or personal bias ; so with a fearless spirit ancl an independent mindswayed as littleil is hopedbpersonal as
, , , y by public feeling , this sketch of the life of one , perhaps somewhat misunderstood in his objects , and possibly somewhat mistaken in the mode of carrying them out , is undertaken . Robert Thomas Crucefix was bom in Kolbovn , in the year 1797 , and received his education at Merchant Tailors' School . After leaving school , be became the pupil of Mr . Chamberlayne , a general and celebrated practitioner of his day , at Cleikenwell ; he afterwards
became a student at St . Bartholomew's Hospital , antl was a pupil of the eccentric and highly-gifted Abernethy . On receiving his diploma as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1 S 10 , he went out to India , where he remained but a short time ;—upon his return he settled in London , ancl he continued to reside there till tbe year 1845 , when he removed to Milton-on-Thames , where he spent the rest of his life , till within a few weeks before his decease ; when he removed , for the
benefit of his declining health to Bath , where he expired , February 25 th , in the present year . From the earliest period he evinced great capacity to acquire knowledge ancl earnest anxiety to seek for it ; these were amply
developed as he increased in age ; and those who knew him most intimately were often amazed by the extent and variety of his attainments , and his stern determination never to remain ignorant of any attainable information . Of the events antecedent to his initiation into Masonry , much might be written that would be interesting ; but tbis is more a biography of tbe Mason than the man ; and , therefore , with the intention of collecting and g iving various anecdotes hereafter
of our respected Brother ' s private career , all the intervening time is passed over , and the year 1829 at once arrived at . In that ~ year , on the I 6 th of April , the subject of this Memoir , was admitted to the First Degree of Masonry , in the Burlington Loclge , No . 113 , of ivhich Brother Samuel Manton Briggs was Master . From the instant he saw the Masonic light , he took that strong- attachment to the Order , that determination to further its most recondite mysteries , and
to labour unremittingly to carry out to their fullest extent the princip les of Freemasonry as he understood them . " In this , none can say he failed ; they might differ from him in opinion ; they might blame the means , while admitting the goodness of his ends ; but they could not deny to him steadiness of purpose , untiring-industry , and almost unexampled energy and great ability in forwarding his own peculiar views , which , rig ht or wrong , were based on his desire to advance the interests of our Order . This is not the place to enter into any of those controversial points , which once did , but happily no longer do , agitate the entire Masonic Body of England ; without approval , therefore , or dis-
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Robert Thomas Crucefix, Ll.D., P.S.G.D.
narrative , and , enrich its worth , without violating the confidence , which as Masons we must hold most sacred . Robert Thomas Crucefix is no more ; his career of trouble , exertion and tare , is run :
he" Is in his grave ; After life ' s fitful fever he sleeps well ; Nothing Can touch him further . " Ilis career is now history , and , as such may be commented on without personal allusion or personal bias ; so with a fearless spirit ancl an independent mindswayed as littleil is hopedbpersonal as
, , , y by public feeling , this sketch of the life of one , perhaps somewhat misunderstood in his objects , and possibly somewhat mistaken in the mode of carrying them out , is undertaken . Robert Thomas Crucefix was bom in Kolbovn , in the year 1797 , and received his education at Merchant Tailors' School . After leaving school , be became the pupil of Mr . Chamberlayne , a general and celebrated practitioner of his day , at Cleikenwell ; he afterwards
became a student at St . Bartholomew's Hospital , antl was a pupil of the eccentric and highly-gifted Abernethy . On receiving his diploma as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1 S 10 , he went out to India , where he remained but a short time ;—upon his return he settled in London , ancl he continued to reside there till tbe year 1845 , when he removed to Milton-on-Thames , where he spent the rest of his life , till within a few weeks before his decease ; when he removed , for the
benefit of his declining health to Bath , where he expired , February 25 th , in the present year . From the earliest period he evinced great capacity to acquire knowledge ancl earnest anxiety to seek for it ; these were amply
developed as he increased in age ; and those who knew him most intimately were often amazed by the extent and variety of his attainments , and his stern determination never to remain ignorant of any attainable information . Of the events antecedent to his initiation into Masonry , much might be written that would be interesting ; but tbis is more a biography of tbe Mason than the man ; and , therefore , with the intention of collecting and g iving various anecdotes hereafter
of our respected Brother ' s private career , all the intervening time is passed over , and the year 1829 at once arrived at . In that ~ year , on the I 6 th of April , the subject of this Memoir , was admitted to the First Degree of Masonry , in the Burlington Loclge , No . 113 , of ivhich Brother Samuel Manton Briggs was Master . From the instant he saw the Masonic light , he took that strong- attachment to the Order , that determination to further its most recondite mysteries , and
to labour unremittingly to carry out to their fullest extent the princip les of Freemasonry as he understood them . " In this , none can say he failed ; they might differ from him in opinion ; they might blame the means , while admitting the goodness of his ends ; but they could not deny to him steadiness of purpose , untiring-industry , and almost unexampled energy and great ability in forwarding his own peculiar views , which , rig ht or wrong , were based on his desire to advance the interests of our Order . This is not the place to enter into any of those controversial points , which once did , but happily no longer do , agitate the entire Masonic Body of England ; without approval , therefore , or dis-