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Obituary.
He was also the principal scene-painter at Astley ' s and the Olympic theatres , and held an engagement at the Leeds and York theatre , in which county he not only pursued his profession , but he also supported the principles of our Fraternity in so marked a manner , as to earn for himself the honour of being appointed one of the Prov . Grand Deacons . " He was initiated in the Bedford Lodge , in the year 1823 , and the great attention which he bestowed to Masonic disciplinesoon evinced
, that desire and that determination which he came to—to lose no opportunity of seeking instruction , and which when obtained , he was at all times ready and willing to disseminate . He was much attached to our late celebrated Bro . Gilkes , and paid him every kind attention at the period of his closing illness ; he was with him at the time of his decease . Bro . Thiselton joined several Lodges and Chapters , and on all occasions proved himself to be a most zealous member of the Craftand we
con-, fidently say , that those who honoured him with their friendship during life , will not refrain from evincing the self-same respect to his memory . He was for many years attached to the Middlesex Lodge , in the capacity of Secretary . " Our Brother retired from his profession as a scene-painter , having broken a blood-vessel ; he , however , in the year 1830 , was appointed , through the kind instrumentality of a distinguished member of the
Grand Lodge , to the office of enquirer into the cases submittetl for relief by the Society for Discharging Prisoners confined for small Debts , which situation he filled till the hour of his death ; he also held the situation of Junior Clerk in the Grand Secretary ' s office , from 1838 , and although his too visible sufferings obtained for him universal sympathy and commiseration , none we believe will say that he was ever backward in performing , readily and kindly , his allotted duties .
" It is , in conclusion , to be observed with regret , that his long-protracted sufferings , attended with a considerable outlay for medical advice and necessaries , disabled our Brother completely from making otherwise than a very small provision for the immediate wants of his widow and three children , one of whom is in the Blue-coat School . We are informed that he has left many curious relics , more especially a work upon which he devoted many years of hard labour , viz- an Illustrated Survey of London , twenty volumes of which are completed ; the whole would have been finished in about six months . He was at all times
sanguine in his ideas as to its becoming a valuable bequest to his family ; what will be done with the work time must show . "—Abridged from a Memoir of the deceased . The preceding biographer of Bro . A . L . Thiselton has touched but lightly on his private character , which was of singular elements . Talented he was ; as a Mason , his forte was the Royal Arch ; his father ( the whole family were Masons ) was devoted to this branch of the Royal Art , and Arthur greedily pursued the science . Many years since ,
he nerved himself to tbe attempt of discussing , in Grand Chapter , a motion of which he had given previous notice ; but , owing to want of judgment in the choice of means to elucidate the grand conceptions of his thoughts , he broke down , and advantage was taken of his want of tact , to decry the attempt at a work which would , if aided , have been one of wonder . He was of a tall gaunt figure , with an eye of keen satire ) and on this occasion , when he addressed the Throne , on which the Royal First Principal then sat , his exclamation— " Put not your trust in princes , " will long he remembered by those who heard him .
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Obituary.
He was also the principal scene-painter at Astley ' s and the Olympic theatres , and held an engagement at the Leeds and York theatre , in which county he not only pursued his profession , but he also supported the principles of our Fraternity in so marked a manner , as to earn for himself the honour of being appointed one of the Prov . Grand Deacons . " He was initiated in the Bedford Lodge , in the year 1823 , and the great attention which he bestowed to Masonic disciplinesoon evinced
, that desire and that determination which he came to—to lose no opportunity of seeking instruction , and which when obtained , he was at all times ready and willing to disseminate . He was much attached to our late celebrated Bro . Gilkes , and paid him every kind attention at the period of his closing illness ; he was with him at the time of his decease . Bro . Thiselton joined several Lodges and Chapters , and on all occasions proved himself to be a most zealous member of the Craftand we
con-, fidently say , that those who honoured him with their friendship during life , will not refrain from evincing the self-same respect to his memory . He was for many years attached to the Middlesex Lodge , in the capacity of Secretary . " Our Brother retired from his profession as a scene-painter , having broken a blood-vessel ; he , however , in the year 1830 , was appointed , through the kind instrumentality of a distinguished member of the
Grand Lodge , to the office of enquirer into the cases submittetl for relief by the Society for Discharging Prisoners confined for small Debts , which situation he filled till the hour of his death ; he also held the situation of Junior Clerk in the Grand Secretary ' s office , from 1838 , and although his too visible sufferings obtained for him universal sympathy and commiseration , none we believe will say that he was ever backward in performing , readily and kindly , his allotted duties .
" It is , in conclusion , to be observed with regret , that his long-protracted sufferings , attended with a considerable outlay for medical advice and necessaries , disabled our Brother completely from making otherwise than a very small provision for the immediate wants of his widow and three children , one of whom is in the Blue-coat School . We are informed that he has left many curious relics , more especially a work upon which he devoted many years of hard labour , viz- an Illustrated Survey of London , twenty volumes of which are completed ; the whole would have been finished in about six months . He was at all times
sanguine in his ideas as to its becoming a valuable bequest to his family ; what will be done with the work time must show . "—Abridged from a Memoir of the deceased . The preceding biographer of Bro . A . L . Thiselton has touched but lightly on his private character , which was of singular elements . Talented he was ; as a Mason , his forte was the Royal Arch ; his father ( the whole family were Masons ) was devoted to this branch of the Royal Art , and Arthur greedily pursued the science . Many years since ,
he nerved himself to tbe attempt of discussing , in Grand Chapter , a motion of which he had given previous notice ; but , owing to want of judgment in the choice of means to elucidate the grand conceptions of his thoughts , he broke down , and advantage was taken of his want of tact , to decry the attempt at a work which would , if aided , have been one of wonder . He was of a tall gaunt figure , with an eye of keen satire ) and on this occasion , when he addressed the Throne , on which the Royal First Principal then sat , his exclamation— " Put not your trust in princes , " will long he remembered by those who heard him .