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The Grand Masters ,
Incorporation should be founded not being generally known , nor clearly understood , and the Brethren fearing lest any innovations should be made in the polity of a society that had for so many ages stood distinguished for secresy , morality , benevolence and good fellowship . However , when the copy of the {/ barter was promulgated , all doubts were removed , and the Brethren anxiously looked forward to the period when
it received the Royal assent , as several well intentioned schemes , then in embryo , would be carried into immediate execution , and the intentions of many ( who only waited for such Incorporation ) would then shine forth with lustre , and demonstrate to the ivorld , those principles that ever did , and it is to be hoped ever will , produce those salutary effects that are pregnant with relieving the distressed , ami removing the
ghastly aspects of misery and want from their abode , by either contributing to their immediate assistance , and so enable them to amend their circumstances in life ; or , if that be impossible , to place them in some comfortable home that may shelter " THE AGED AND DECAYED MASON , " from the dreary horrors of spending his latter days in penury and want . The Hon . Charles DillonDeputy Grand Master .
, 1772-76 ROBERT EDWARD LORD PETRE . Rowland Holt , Esq ., Deputy Grand Master . 1777-81 i ¦ EORGE DUKE OF MANCHESTER . 1 . 782-89 His Royal Highness Hen . Fred . DUKE OF CUMBERLAND , Bro . of King George 111 ., Grand Master to 1788 . The Earl of
Effingham Acting Grand Master . In 17 S 9 , Francis Lord Rawdon ( afterwards Earl Moira and Marquis of Hastings ) , A . G . M . 790-1812 His Royal Highness GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES ( afterwards George IV . ) G rand Master . Marquis of Hastings , Acting Grand Master . Sir Peter" Parker , Baronet , Deputy Grand Master , til ' his decease , 1 SU . Afterwards His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , D . G . M ., uutil 1812 . 1813 In this year the union of the two Grand Lodges of London was
to effected through the exertions of their Royal Highnesses the 1839 Dukes of Kent and Sussex , Grand Masters . His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex elected as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England—Lawrence , Lord Dundas ( afterwards , iu 1 S 3 S , created Earl of Zetland ) JDeputy Grand Master , until 1835 , when his Lordship was appointed Pro-Grand Masterand the Earl of Durham succeeded him as
, Deputy Grand Master , which office he shortly after resigned on being appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of St . Petersburg !] . In the same year ( 1835 ) Lord H . John S . Churchill was appointed , and still continues , the Deputy Grand Master of England . The Earl of Zetland , after a long and useful career of Masonic exampledied on the 19 th of Februaryand it is believed that
, , a successor to his Lordship as Pro-Grand Master will not be appointed . Among the many prominent features which have distinguished the era of the illustrious Mason , who has for so many years presided over the English Craft , may be enumerated—
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The Grand Masters ,
Incorporation should be founded not being generally known , nor clearly understood , and the Brethren fearing lest any innovations should be made in the polity of a society that had for so many ages stood distinguished for secresy , morality , benevolence and good fellowship . However , when the copy of the {/ barter was promulgated , all doubts were removed , and the Brethren anxiously looked forward to the period when
it received the Royal assent , as several well intentioned schemes , then in embryo , would be carried into immediate execution , and the intentions of many ( who only waited for such Incorporation ) would then shine forth with lustre , and demonstrate to the ivorld , those principles that ever did , and it is to be hoped ever will , produce those salutary effects that are pregnant with relieving the distressed , ami removing the
ghastly aspects of misery and want from their abode , by either contributing to their immediate assistance , and so enable them to amend their circumstances in life ; or , if that be impossible , to place them in some comfortable home that may shelter " THE AGED AND DECAYED MASON , " from the dreary horrors of spending his latter days in penury and want . The Hon . Charles DillonDeputy Grand Master .
, 1772-76 ROBERT EDWARD LORD PETRE . Rowland Holt , Esq ., Deputy Grand Master . 1777-81 i ¦ EORGE DUKE OF MANCHESTER . 1 . 782-89 His Royal Highness Hen . Fred . DUKE OF CUMBERLAND , Bro . of King George 111 ., Grand Master to 1788 . The Earl of
Effingham Acting Grand Master . In 17 S 9 , Francis Lord Rawdon ( afterwards Earl Moira and Marquis of Hastings ) , A . G . M . 790-1812 His Royal Highness GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES ( afterwards George IV . ) G rand Master . Marquis of Hastings , Acting Grand Master . Sir Peter" Parker , Baronet , Deputy Grand Master , til ' his decease , 1 SU . Afterwards His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , D . G . M ., uutil 1812 . 1813 In this year the union of the two Grand Lodges of London was
to effected through the exertions of their Royal Highnesses the 1839 Dukes of Kent and Sussex , Grand Masters . His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex elected as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England—Lawrence , Lord Dundas ( afterwards , iu 1 S 3 S , created Earl of Zetland ) JDeputy Grand Master , until 1835 , when his Lordship was appointed Pro-Grand Masterand the Earl of Durham succeeded him as
, Deputy Grand Master , which office he shortly after resigned on being appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of St . Petersburg !] . In the same year ( 1835 ) Lord H . John S . Churchill was appointed , and still continues , the Deputy Grand Master of England . The Earl of Zetland , after a long and useful career of Masonic exampledied on the 19 th of Februaryand it is believed that
, , a successor to his Lordship as Pro-Grand Master will not be appointed . Among the many prominent features which have distinguished the era of the illustrious Mason , who has for so many years presided over the English Craft , may be enumerated—