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Obituary.
April 23 . —The "Gilkes" of Oxford is no more . Bro . THOMPSON , who for so many years was looked up to as the Masonic patriarch of a veneration , sleeps with his fathers . AVe mourn , as the historian of the dead , most sincerely on the departure of a Brother , who , though not lost but gone before , " imposes on us the necessary but afflicting duty ot speaking of him as a traveller to that bourne whence there is no return . to thashesBroThompson ! The good thou hast done is
pre-Peace y , . sent to our mind , and that good is free from a speck of the alloy with which mankind , even of the Fraternity , is so sadly welded Upon whom is thy mantle to fall ? Gentle Brethren of Oxford , see to this ; let not the pure spirit of Thompson reproach you with neglect to elect his successor : you must and will find some ¦ one whom , with one accord , you shall acknowledge as a presiding spirit to continue in active force the le and the precepts of deceased monitor .
examp your Alfred Lodge , this is your duty : he was of you , knew your fathers and their sons , moved in your circle , participated in the same objects which gratified your feelings or advanced your interests ! Apollo Lodge , he was vour staunch , unerring friend—the Fellow of a College , the
undergraduate , noble , gentle , all-respected Brother ihompson . we Knew the line of demarcation , toed the chalk , and preserved the landmark . AVe too , knew him ; personally ancl in correspondence he was ot the faithful , and we grieve with Oxford and the world ; yet is our grief chastened by the prospect that the accepted of earth is a candidate for Brother initiated in the Alfred Lodge became a Royal
Thompson was , Arch , and filled each chair successfully . He was also a Knight lemplar , Rose Croix , and Med . P ., Ne Plus and K . M ., & c . He was very corpulent , but always active ancl cheerful ; his age approached 70 . Wis son is a Brother in the Order . AA ^ e may take this opportunity of stating that Bros . John Lane and AVm . Lane Fox have heen for some time looked up to hy the Oxford Brethren , and perhaps no two Brethren
better deserve their respect . April 11 . —At Calcutta , Bro . R . C . MACDONAU ., Major Commandant of the 49 th Regiment , N . I ., fetat 43 ; a lineal descendant of Mora Macdonald , whom Scott in his " Waverley" has commemorated as Flora M'lvor . Bro . Macdonald had left his regiment for Calcutta on nressina : private affairs , was suddenly seized with malignant fever , and was soon no more ! Distress of mind , too , probably accelerated interred with military and
the power of the grim tyrant . He was Masonic honours . A widow and infant child lament the bereavement of a husband and father . These few particulars will probably suffice for general notice ; but how are we to express ourselves on the departure from the world of one who has been foremost in the throng —one for whom the Masonic day was never long enough—one who sincerely felt himself as responsible for every error that his presence or he anxious that labour
service might have prevented , because was no should escape his chance of sharing . Enthusiastic and intelligent he combined many attributes of sterling merit ; generosity became a fault by excess ; but devotion to the Craft , and a firm and unflinching determination to maintain inviolability of friendship , was in him a virtue ol the highest caste . ..... . - , His furlough in England was spent in enquiring into the practical discipline of the Order , and it was during this period we made his
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Obituary.
April 23 . —The "Gilkes" of Oxford is no more . Bro . THOMPSON , who for so many years was looked up to as the Masonic patriarch of a veneration , sleeps with his fathers . AVe mourn , as the historian of the dead , most sincerely on the departure of a Brother , who , though not lost but gone before , " imposes on us the necessary but afflicting duty ot speaking of him as a traveller to that bourne whence there is no return . to thashesBroThompson ! The good thou hast done is
pre-Peace y , . sent to our mind , and that good is free from a speck of the alloy with which mankind , even of the Fraternity , is so sadly welded Upon whom is thy mantle to fall ? Gentle Brethren of Oxford , see to this ; let not the pure spirit of Thompson reproach you with neglect to elect his successor : you must and will find some ¦ one whom , with one accord , you shall acknowledge as a presiding spirit to continue in active force the le and the precepts of deceased monitor .
examp your Alfred Lodge , this is your duty : he was of you , knew your fathers and their sons , moved in your circle , participated in the same objects which gratified your feelings or advanced your interests ! Apollo Lodge , he was vour staunch , unerring friend—the Fellow of a College , the
undergraduate , noble , gentle , all-respected Brother ihompson . we Knew the line of demarcation , toed the chalk , and preserved the landmark . AVe too , knew him ; personally ancl in correspondence he was ot the faithful , and we grieve with Oxford and the world ; yet is our grief chastened by the prospect that the accepted of earth is a candidate for Brother initiated in the Alfred Lodge became a Royal
Thompson was , Arch , and filled each chair successfully . He was also a Knight lemplar , Rose Croix , and Med . P ., Ne Plus and K . M ., & c . He was very corpulent , but always active ancl cheerful ; his age approached 70 . Wis son is a Brother in the Order . AA ^ e may take this opportunity of stating that Bros . John Lane and AVm . Lane Fox have heen for some time looked up to hy the Oxford Brethren , and perhaps no two Brethren
better deserve their respect . April 11 . —At Calcutta , Bro . R . C . MACDONAU ., Major Commandant of the 49 th Regiment , N . I ., fetat 43 ; a lineal descendant of Mora Macdonald , whom Scott in his " Waverley" has commemorated as Flora M'lvor . Bro . Macdonald had left his regiment for Calcutta on nressina : private affairs , was suddenly seized with malignant fever , and was soon no more ! Distress of mind , too , probably accelerated interred with military and
the power of the grim tyrant . He was Masonic honours . A widow and infant child lament the bereavement of a husband and father . These few particulars will probably suffice for general notice ; but how are we to express ourselves on the departure from the world of one who has been foremost in the throng —one for whom the Masonic day was never long enough—one who sincerely felt himself as responsible for every error that his presence or he anxious that labour
service might have prevented , because was no should escape his chance of sharing . Enthusiastic and intelligent he combined many attributes of sterling merit ; generosity became a fault by excess ; but devotion to the Craft , and a firm and unflinching determination to maintain inviolability of friendship , was in him a virtue ol the highest caste . ..... . - , His furlough in England was spent in enquiring into the practical discipline of the Order , and it was during this period we made his