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Death Of The Past Grand Tyler.
taken , and a copy engraved for general circulation ; he was a handsome tall man , with good well marked features . He was at one time Serjeant Major of the Royal Artillery Company ; and in the awful riots of ' 80 , he passed five nights and days without changing his clothes : this circumstance has been doubted , but in the presence of a member of the company who was sceptical on the point ,
old Ben said , " Oh ! how should you remember what took place before you were born?—did ' nt I pay i 5 as my share of a public dinner?—Answer me that . " Theold Mason ' s wife died in 1831 . She had exacted a promise from him not to bury her alive . Ben adhered to his word , and after he had kept her better than three weeks , it was with the greatest difficulty he could be persuaded to the interment . They had been man and wife for 63 years ! Soon after the union of the two Societies , Brother Ben was pensioned , and also received an allowance as retired messenger , from the fund of
the Boys' School ; the amount was sufficient for his own wants , but being shared by some family dependents , his necessities were sometimes urgent , and latterly that he might be better attended to , a Member of the Grand Master ' s Lodge , Bro . R . H . Giraud , was kind enough to arrange the appropriation of his stipend , and undertook also to see that the funeral was respectably conducted . The deceased Brother witnessed many interesting transactions in the
order , and from time to time as he looked in on us , would narrate them : we regret having neglected to take notes . His last public appearance was at tbe Boys' Festival , on the 9 th March , 1841 . In 1784 , the furniture of the Athol Grand Lodge being at the Half Moon , Cheapside , and a distress warrant being in the house for rent , Brother Ben applied to the Lord Mayor for an order to remove the furniture , which was granted , and the furniture was conveyed safely to the Horn , Doctor ' s Commons , in one of the town carts which at that time plied for hire , standing as hackney cabs now do .
AS FOUNDER OF THE BOYS SCHOOL , The deceased Brother always claimed for himself the honour of having been the founder of this excellent charity . Whether this be the fact or not , we feel it our duty to give tbe following particulars from a paper in our possession , signed by himself , and given under a promise , in case of survivorship , to publish the fact .
" October 1798 . Statement of the Institution of the Boys' School , - King ' s Arms , Green Bank , Wapping . " After three or four previous meetings , the following Brethren came to a resolution to endeavour to found the school : — Benjamin Aldhouse . William Burwood . Henry Margate . John Webber . Solomon Winter .
" At the first meeting , Benjamin Aldhouse put down half-a-guinea ; Mr . Burwood went up stairs ancl brought down ten guineas ; my not being able to answer it , I took up my half-guinea ; we met on the Saturday following , and began the subscriptions . Mr . Burwood then paid . We agreed to form a Committee , and to have it published . Being VOL . i . 3 x
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Death Of The Past Grand Tyler.
taken , and a copy engraved for general circulation ; he was a handsome tall man , with good well marked features . He was at one time Serjeant Major of the Royal Artillery Company ; and in the awful riots of ' 80 , he passed five nights and days without changing his clothes : this circumstance has been doubted , but in the presence of a member of the company who was sceptical on the point ,
old Ben said , " Oh ! how should you remember what took place before you were born?—did ' nt I pay i 5 as my share of a public dinner?—Answer me that . " Theold Mason ' s wife died in 1831 . She had exacted a promise from him not to bury her alive . Ben adhered to his word , and after he had kept her better than three weeks , it was with the greatest difficulty he could be persuaded to the interment . They had been man and wife for 63 years ! Soon after the union of the two Societies , Brother Ben was pensioned , and also received an allowance as retired messenger , from the fund of
the Boys' School ; the amount was sufficient for his own wants , but being shared by some family dependents , his necessities were sometimes urgent , and latterly that he might be better attended to , a Member of the Grand Master ' s Lodge , Bro . R . H . Giraud , was kind enough to arrange the appropriation of his stipend , and undertook also to see that the funeral was respectably conducted . The deceased Brother witnessed many interesting transactions in the
order , and from time to time as he looked in on us , would narrate them : we regret having neglected to take notes . His last public appearance was at tbe Boys' Festival , on the 9 th March , 1841 . In 1784 , the furniture of the Athol Grand Lodge being at the Half Moon , Cheapside , and a distress warrant being in the house for rent , Brother Ben applied to the Lord Mayor for an order to remove the furniture , which was granted , and the furniture was conveyed safely to the Horn , Doctor ' s Commons , in one of the town carts which at that time plied for hire , standing as hackney cabs now do .
AS FOUNDER OF THE BOYS SCHOOL , The deceased Brother always claimed for himself the honour of having been the founder of this excellent charity . Whether this be the fact or not , we feel it our duty to give tbe following particulars from a paper in our possession , signed by himself , and given under a promise , in case of survivorship , to publish the fact .
" October 1798 . Statement of the Institution of the Boys' School , - King ' s Arms , Green Bank , Wapping . " After three or four previous meetings , the following Brethren came to a resolution to endeavour to found the school : — Benjamin Aldhouse . William Burwood . Henry Margate . John Webber . Solomon Winter .
" At the first meeting , Benjamin Aldhouse put down half-a-guinea ; Mr . Burwood went up stairs ancl brought down ten guineas ; my not being able to answer it , I took up my half-guinea ; we met on the Saturday following , and began the subscriptions . Mr . Burwood then paid . We agreed to form a Committee , and to have it published . Being VOL . i . 3 x