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Obituary.
BRO . JOHN TOMBS . Died , on March Sth , Bro . John Tombs , aged 32 . The deceased was a member of the Silurian Lodge , Newport , Monmouthshire , and the Brethren , to testify their attachment , walked in procession , not robed , at his funeral . Bro . Tombs stood high in the Craft , and was working his way up to the Chair .
BRO . JAMES INGLIS , M . D . The Lodge of Probity , Halifax , Yorkshire , has recently sustained a severe loss in the death of one of its Past Masters , Bro . James Inglis , M . D . He was also P . S . G . W . of the province of West Yorkshire . His death occurred at the residence of his mother-in-law , at Green Royalnear Halifaxon Sunday the 9 th of Marchand his remains
, , , were committed to their final resting place , in the burial ground of Trinity Church , Halifax , on Monday the 17 th . The Brethren of the Lodge assembled to pay their last tribute of respect at the grave of our deceased Brother , the procession being accompanied by the R . W Bro . Charles Lee , D . P . G . M ., of West Yorkshire , who subsequently addressed to the Brethren a high and deserved eulogium of the character of our departed Brother . Brother Inglis was born in Glasgow ,
September 1813 . In 1834 he took the degree of physician at the University of Edinburgh , and at the same time became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh . He has resided in Halifax since 1838 , and at a time when a fruitful practice was promising to reward a life of active zeal in whatever could conduce to the literary , social , or scientific welfare of his fellow creatures , he was compelled to retire , in the autumn of last year , by the inroads which organic disease hacl occasioned . He married Louisa , daughter of the late Jeremiah Rawson , Esq ., who with three children survives his loss .
BRO . SAMUEL DICKSON . The decease of Bro . Samuel Dickson took place October Sth . Having devoted the energies of an active and vigorous mind during a long life to the service of his native county ( Limerick ) ancl city , for both of which he performed with strict impartiality the duties of magistrate and high sheriff , he was , on the last vacancy , unanimously chosen by this county its representative in Parliament . Bro . Dickson was a Past Provincial Grand Officer of the P . G . Loclge of North Munster , and Past Master of Lodges Nos . 13 , 55 , and 333 .
DR . THOMAS AVRIGHT , F . R . C . S . Freemasonry in Ireland has sustained a serious calamity in the demise of Dr . Thomas Wright , Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons ; which event took place rather unexpectedly , after a short illness , at his residence in Dublin , on the 17 th of February , 1851 . Dr . Wright was for thirty years one of the most active and energetic members of the Craft , as will be best testified by the state of efficiency in which his untiring exertions placed the various Lodges and Chapters m the metropolis with which he was more immediately connected . For
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Obituary.
BRO . JOHN TOMBS . Died , on March Sth , Bro . John Tombs , aged 32 . The deceased was a member of the Silurian Lodge , Newport , Monmouthshire , and the Brethren , to testify their attachment , walked in procession , not robed , at his funeral . Bro . Tombs stood high in the Craft , and was working his way up to the Chair .
BRO . JAMES INGLIS , M . D . The Lodge of Probity , Halifax , Yorkshire , has recently sustained a severe loss in the death of one of its Past Masters , Bro . James Inglis , M . D . He was also P . S . G . W . of the province of West Yorkshire . His death occurred at the residence of his mother-in-law , at Green Royalnear Halifaxon Sunday the 9 th of Marchand his remains
, , , were committed to their final resting place , in the burial ground of Trinity Church , Halifax , on Monday the 17 th . The Brethren of the Lodge assembled to pay their last tribute of respect at the grave of our deceased Brother , the procession being accompanied by the R . W Bro . Charles Lee , D . P . G . M ., of West Yorkshire , who subsequently addressed to the Brethren a high and deserved eulogium of the character of our departed Brother . Brother Inglis was born in Glasgow ,
September 1813 . In 1834 he took the degree of physician at the University of Edinburgh , and at the same time became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh . He has resided in Halifax since 1838 , and at a time when a fruitful practice was promising to reward a life of active zeal in whatever could conduce to the literary , social , or scientific welfare of his fellow creatures , he was compelled to retire , in the autumn of last year , by the inroads which organic disease hacl occasioned . He married Louisa , daughter of the late Jeremiah Rawson , Esq ., who with three children survives his loss .
BRO . SAMUEL DICKSON . The decease of Bro . Samuel Dickson took place October Sth . Having devoted the energies of an active and vigorous mind during a long life to the service of his native county ( Limerick ) ancl city , for both of which he performed with strict impartiality the duties of magistrate and high sheriff , he was , on the last vacancy , unanimously chosen by this county its representative in Parliament . Bro . Dickson was a Past Provincial Grand Officer of the P . G . Loclge of North Munster , and Past Master of Lodges Nos . 13 , 55 , and 333 .
DR . THOMAS AVRIGHT , F . R . C . S . Freemasonry in Ireland has sustained a serious calamity in the demise of Dr . Thomas Wright , Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons ; which event took place rather unexpectedly , after a short illness , at his residence in Dublin , on the 17 th of February , 1851 . Dr . Wright was for thirty years one of the most active and energetic members of the Craft , as will be best testified by the state of efficiency in which his untiring exertions placed the various Lodges and Chapters m the metropolis with which he was more immediately connected . For