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Obituary.
The deceased was more known in the Craft b y his paternal name of Thiselton , having assumed that of Dyer some few years since , in consequence of having succeeded to a small entailed property . He wasinitiated in the Old King ' s Arms Lodge , and afterwards joined the Corner Stone , to qualify for the red apron ; he retired from that Lodge soon after he obtained the rank , which gave considerable umbrage , and the Grand Stewards' Lodgewhich be wished to joinpassed a by-law ,
, , , empowering the ballot for the admission of members , by which he was excluded , as well as some others ; this act of the Lodge was not in strict conformity with the Constitutions , and so seriously affected the Lodge , that the by-law was withdrawn ; but Bro . Thiselton did not afterwards claim , as he might have done , the right to enter the Lodge . He was a member and treasurer of the Prince of Wales' Lodge , and an affiliated member of the Prince of Wales' Chapterwherehowever
, , , some differences between him and others for some time interrupted the harmony of the Companions ; those differences , however , were lately reconciled . In early life he followed his father ' s business , and was an excellent workman , both at case and press ; he could pull off 400 an hour , where a ready workman would be satisfied with 25 0- ; he was then a powerful strong mansix feet four in heiht . As a Mason he was not a learned
, g man , but was critical in his ideas of ceremonies and disci pline , and having been many years in tbe Craft , and belonging to several Lodges ., he expected long since to have received the distinction of the purple , an honour , however , he did not obtain . He possessed much general information , but his manner was brusque , and he was -often considered as
acting from pride . He was much in company , and being connected with so many public meetings was , as he himself would say , a " dinerout . " On assuming the name of Dyer , he was desirous of becoming a magistrate for the county , and , although turned of fifty , he qualified as a barrister at Gray ' s Inn , and frequently sat as magistrate , to the general satisfaction of the bench . He had some notions of a seer-like nature , and was influenced by spectral illusions ; one instan ce of which occurred earlin the present month ( May ) . —He had been suffering for three or
y four months from marasma , or atrophy , and could take so little sustenance , that his portly frame was reduced to a mere skeleton , and his dissolution was daily expected . His brother Arthur had been taken suddenly ill , and being much attenuated soon sunk , his death was carefully concealed from him ; but to the surprise of those around him , the day after the death of his brother , be said— " I have then outlived Arthur , and if I recover , I will explain how I know when and how he
died . " Mysterious thoughts occur in reflecting on the death of these two brothers!—in their last moments both were perfectly collected , and each parted from life with scarcely a sigh . March 8 . —At Barbadoes , where he had arrived from England on the 24 th February after an illness of three days , of the yellow fever , aged 25 , Captain EUSTACE ALEXANDER TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT of the 46 th Regimentyoungest son of the Riht Hon . Charles Tennyson
, g d'Eyncourt , M . P ., of Bayons Manor , Lincolnshire . March 28 . —At Aughlasnaffin , Mr . JOHN SMiTH , aged 48 years . He was upwards of twenty years a member of the Royal Blue Lodge , No . 1009 , Seaforde . county Down , during which time his conduct was very exemplary . He was interred according to the ancient custom of the fraternity in the family burying-ground , Kilmegan .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Obituary.
The deceased was more known in the Craft b y his paternal name of Thiselton , having assumed that of Dyer some few years since , in consequence of having succeeded to a small entailed property . He wasinitiated in the Old King ' s Arms Lodge , and afterwards joined the Corner Stone , to qualify for the red apron ; he retired from that Lodge soon after he obtained the rank , which gave considerable umbrage , and the Grand Stewards' Lodgewhich be wished to joinpassed a by-law ,
, , , empowering the ballot for the admission of members , by which he was excluded , as well as some others ; this act of the Lodge was not in strict conformity with the Constitutions , and so seriously affected the Lodge , that the by-law was withdrawn ; but Bro . Thiselton did not afterwards claim , as he might have done , the right to enter the Lodge . He was a member and treasurer of the Prince of Wales' Lodge , and an affiliated member of the Prince of Wales' Chapterwherehowever
, , , some differences between him and others for some time interrupted the harmony of the Companions ; those differences , however , were lately reconciled . In early life he followed his father ' s business , and was an excellent workman , both at case and press ; he could pull off 400 an hour , where a ready workman would be satisfied with 25 0- ; he was then a powerful strong mansix feet four in heiht . As a Mason he was not a learned
, g man , but was critical in his ideas of ceremonies and disci pline , and having been many years in tbe Craft , and belonging to several Lodges ., he expected long since to have received the distinction of the purple , an honour , however , he did not obtain . He possessed much general information , but his manner was brusque , and he was -often considered as
acting from pride . He was much in company , and being connected with so many public meetings was , as he himself would say , a " dinerout . " On assuming the name of Dyer , he was desirous of becoming a magistrate for the county , and , although turned of fifty , he qualified as a barrister at Gray ' s Inn , and frequently sat as magistrate , to the general satisfaction of the bench . He had some notions of a seer-like nature , and was influenced by spectral illusions ; one instan ce of which occurred earlin the present month ( May ) . —He had been suffering for three or
y four months from marasma , or atrophy , and could take so little sustenance , that his portly frame was reduced to a mere skeleton , and his dissolution was daily expected . His brother Arthur had been taken suddenly ill , and being much attenuated soon sunk , his death was carefully concealed from him ; but to the surprise of those around him , the day after the death of his brother , be said— " I have then outlived Arthur , and if I recover , I will explain how I know when and how he
died . " Mysterious thoughts occur in reflecting on the death of these two brothers!—in their last moments both were perfectly collected , and each parted from life with scarcely a sigh . March 8 . —At Barbadoes , where he had arrived from England on the 24 th February after an illness of three days , of the yellow fever , aged 25 , Captain EUSTACE ALEXANDER TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT of the 46 th Regimentyoungest son of the Riht Hon . Charles Tennyson
, g d'Eyncourt , M . P ., of Bayons Manor , Lincolnshire . March 28 . —At Aughlasnaffin , Mr . JOHN SMiTH , aged 48 years . He was upwards of twenty years a member of the Royal Blue Lodge , No . 1009 , Seaforde . county Down , during which time his conduct was very exemplary . He was interred according to the ancient custom of the fraternity in the family burying-ground , Kilmegan .