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Article QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION. ← Page 8 of 8 Article Masonic Obituary. Page 1 of 6 →
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Quarterly Communication.
piece of plate to their exemplary Past Master and Secretary , Brother Neate , whose conduct for many years has been beyond all praise . The late Board of Stewards for the celebration of the Girls' Festival have , we learn , associated themselves as a body , to perpetuate the circumstance which called them together . They have held social meetings , which have proved so agreeable to themselves and so consonant
with Masonic principle , that they hope the advantages they have themselves derived may not be lost in future , but by being diffused may very considerably aid the charity . We also hear with no small feelings of exultation , that these Brethren have a wish to become embodied officially , and for that purpose they contemplate a memorial to the M . W . G . M . to grant them a warrant to hold a Lodge as Past Stewards of the Girls' School . In this auspicious hope we rejoice , and suggest to the Brethren how greatly increased in value will their society or
Lodge become , by its members being composed of Past Stewards who shall have served both charities . While on this subject , we must reiterate our confident expectation that ere long the views of our esteemed Brethren will be brightened by the erection of an Asylum for the " Old Mason , " whose cause will add another wreath to the dignity of their contemplated Lodge , by increasing
the necessary qualification as a Past Steward of the " Asylum . " BURY ST . 'EDMUNDS . —Itis generally rumoured throughout the county of Suffolk , that Colonel Rushbrooke , of Rushbrooke Hall , will be appointed Provincial Grand Master for the county : we most sincerely hope the rumour is correct . Colonel R . is justly esteemed for his urbanity and independence . The appointment will prove gratifying and advantageous to the Fraternity .
Masonic Obituary.
Masonic Obituary .
DEATH OF H . R . II . THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER . Intelligence of this melancholy event , which occurred at Bagshotpark , a little before seven o ' clock on Sunday evening , the 30 th Nov ., was on Monday officially transmitted to the Lord Mayor by his Grace the Duke of Wellington . The announcement occasioned but little surprise , the public mind
being fully prepared to receive it , owing to the daily bulletins , which but too plainly told the fatal progress which the disorder had made . His Royal Highness , William Frederick Duke of Gloucester , was in his 58 th year , being born in January 1776 , at Rome , whither his father went shortly after his private marriage , on the 6 th of Sept . 1766 , with Maria , the Countess Dowager of Waldegrave—a match which so highly incensed his brother , George III ., that he refused to receive the bride
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Quarterly Communication.
piece of plate to their exemplary Past Master and Secretary , Brother Neate , whose conduct for many years has been beyond all praise . The late Board of Stewards for the celebration of the Girls' Festival have , we learn , associated themselves as a body , to perpetuate the circumstance which called them together . They have held social meetings , which have proved so agreeable to themselves and so consonant
with Masonic principle , that they hope the advantages they have themselves derived may not be lost in future , but by being diffused may very considerably aid the charity . We also hear with no small feelings of exultation , that these Brethren have a wish to become embodied officially , and for that purpose they contemplate a memorial to the M . W . G . M . to grant them a warrant to hold a Lodge as Past Stewards of the Girls' School . In this auspicious hope we rejoice , and suggest to the Brethren how greatly increased in value will their society or
Lodge become , by its members being composed of Past Stewards who shall have served both charities . While on this subject , we must reiterate our confident expectation that ere long the views of our esteemed Brethren will be brightened by the erection of an Asylum for the " Old Mason , " whose cause will add another wreath to the dignity of their contemplated Lodge , by increasing
the necessary qualification as a Past Steward of the " Asylum . " BURY ST . 'EDMUNDS . —Itis generally rumoured throughout the county of Suffolk , that Colonel Rushbrooke , of Rushbrooke Hall , will be appointed Provincial Grand Master for the county : we most sincerely hope the rumour is correct . Colonel R . is justly esteemed for his urbanity and independence . The appointment will prove gratifying and advantageous to the Fraternity .
Masonic Obituary.
Masonic Obituary .
DEATH OF H . R . II . THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER . Intelligence of this melancholy event , which occurred at Bagshotpark , a little before seven o ' clock on Sunday evening , the 30 th Nov ., was on Monday officially transmitted to the Lord Mayor by his Grace the Duke of Wellington . The announcement occasioned but little surprise , the public mind
being fully prepared to receive it , owing to the daily bulletins , which but too plainly told the fatal progress which the disorder had made . His Royal Highness , William Frederick Duke of Gloucester , was in his 58 th year , being born in January 1776 , at Rome , whither his father went shortly after his private marriage , on the 6 th of Sept . 1766 , with Maria , the Countess Dowager of Waldegrave—a match which so highly incensed his brother , George III ., that he refused to receive the bride