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speedily , if ever again , supplied , by one wdio possessed so extensive and correcta knowledge of the working departments of Craft Masonry . For the last three years of his life , his energies had become very seriously impaired by paralysis . Though disqualified , however , for any active exertion of a physicial description , he was able to enjoy the society and visits of his Brethren ; nor until within a few weeks of his death , was he prevented from receiving the visits of the junior members ofthe Lodgeto whom he communicated instruction with equal willingness
, and delight , and with a facility and correctness all but equal to that which distinguished the teaching of his former days . His strength gradually decreased , and at length his career was peacefully closed on earth , to be continued , we hope "in that Grand Lodge above , where the world ' s Great Architect lives and reigns for evermore . " No direct wish was expressed by himself on the subject , but the Brethren of his bereaved Lodge assembled , with the approbation of his
afflicted friends , to pay their last sad tribute of respect at his grave . Other Lodges in the province were invited to be present . Several were so represented , and amongst the number to mourn over their loss , was Bro . Charles Lee , Esq ., D . P . G . M „ from Leeds , whose kindness and sympathy on all such occasions are so eminently calculated to afford consolation and encouragement to his sorrowing friends and Brethren .
BRO . THOMAS LYTTLETON HOLT , Died , August 25 , aged 74 years . BRO . GEORGE HITCHINGS . Died , September 9 , aged 62 , at his residence in St . Aldate ' s , Oxford , Bro . George Hitchings , surgeon . For forty years he had given his gratuitous services to the Radcliffe Infirmary . During this long period of active
usefulness , by the exercise of his professional skill , he had been the means of completely restoring to health , or alleviating the sufferings of multitudes of the poorer classes of this city and the neighbouring counties . His sagacity in discerning the cause of disease , and his ready recourse to the appropriate treatment , as well as his dexterity and accuracy in every operation , however delicate and hazardous , where niceness of hand and vigour of nerve , were required , had raised him , most deservedly , to
the highest repute with the public at large , and given his opinion the weight of authority among the less experienced members of his profession . His loss will be deeply felt by his family and an extensive circle of friends ; especially by the poor , for whom , with the kindest and most compassionate feeling , he was ever ready to use his most strenuous efforts , and availed himself of all the resources of his art , for their succour and relief .
When to this it is added , that he had been for thirty-seven years a member of the Masonic body , having been initiated in the Alfred Lodge , Oxford , by his father , Sir Edward Hitchings , that he was one of the founders of the Apollo University Lodge , that he had served all the offices , and was a regular attendant up to the time of his death , we see in the above report of his life and actions , the true and practical application of the principles of Freemasonry ; principles , which had ever
served as his guiding star through a life of active usefulness . Died , August 2 , Gertrude Helen , youngest child of l . ro . the Rev . J . E . Cox , Grand Chaplain .
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Obituary.
speedily , if ever again , supplied , by one wdio possessed so extensive and correcta knowledge of the working departments of Craft Masonry . For the last three years of his life , his energies had become very seriously impaired by paralysis . Though disqualified , however , for any active exertion of a physicial description , he was able to enjoy the society and visits of his Brethren ; nor until within a few weeks of his death , was he prevented from receiving the visits of the junior members ofthe Lodgeto whom he communicated instruction with equal willingness
, and delight , and with a facility and correctness all but equal to that which distinguished the teaching of his former days . His strength gradually decreased , and at length his career was peacefully closed on earth , to be continued , we hope "in that Grand Lodge above , where the world ' s Great Architect lives and reigns for evermore . " No direct wish was expressed by himself on the subject , but the Brethren of his bereaved Lodge assembled , with the approbation of his
afflicted friends , to pay their last sad tribute of respect at his grave . Other Lodges in the province were invited to be present . Several were so represented , and amongst the number to mourn over their loss , was Bro . Charles Lee , Esq ., D . P . G . M „ from Leeds , whose kindness and sympathy on all such occasions are so eminently calculated to afford consolation and encouragement to his sorrowing friends and Brethren .
BRO . THOMAS LYTTLETON HOLT , Died , August 25 , aged 74 years . BRO . GEORGE HITCHINGS . Died , September 9 , aged 62 , at his residence in St . Aldate ' s , Oxford , Bro . George Hitchings , surgeon . For forty years he had given his gratuitous services to the Radcliffe Infirmary . During this long period of active
usefulness , by the exercise of his professional skill , he had been the means of completely restoring to health , or alleviating the sufferings of multitudes of the poorer classes of this city and the neighbouring counties . His sagacity in discerning the cause of disease , and his ready recourse to the appropriate treatment , as well as his dexterity and accuracy in every operation , however delicate and hazardous , where niceness of hand and vigour of nerve , were required , had raised him , most deservedly , to
the highest repute with the public at large , and given his opinion the weight of authority among the less experienced members of his profession . His loss will be deeply felt by his family and an extensive circle of friends ; especially by the poor , for whom , with the kindest and most compassionate feeling , he was ever ready to use his most strenuous efforts , and availed himself of all the resources of his art , for their succour and relief .
When to this it is added , that he had been for thirty-seven years a member of the Masonic body , having been initiated in the Alfred Lodge , Oxford , by his father , Sir Edward Hitchings , that he was one of the founders of the Apollo University Lodge , that he had served all the offices , and was a regular attendant up to the time of his death , we see in the above report of his life and actions , the true and practical application of the principles of Freemasonry ; principles , which had ever
served as his guiding star through a life of active usefulness . Died , August 2 , Gertrude Helen , youngest child of l . ro . the Rev . J . E . Cox , Grand Chaplain .