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the brief space of two years was elected its W . M . He owes his red apron to his connection with the St . Alban ' s Lodge , No . 29 , which he represented on the Board of Grand Stewards in 1 S 81-2 , is Treasurer of the Bard of Avon Lodge , No . 77 S , Hampton Court , honorary member of the Raymond Thrupp Lodge , No . 2024 , Hampton Court , and in 1883 was founder and first W . M . of the Priory Lodge of Acton , No . 1996 . Thus his Craft

services have been partly metropolitan and partly provincial , the latter having been recognised by his appointment at different times to the office of Prov . G . S . B . Surrey and Prov . G . S . Warden of Middlesex . His R . A . record is almost equally conspicuous ; he was exalted in the Mount Lebanon Chapter , No . 73 , in March , iS 6 S , and is a P . Z . of Fidelity Chapter , No . 3 ; founder , P . Z ., and Scribe E . of the Royal Middlesex

Chapter , No . 119 +. Hampton Court , and Past Prov . G . H . of the Provincial Grand Chapter of Middlesex . He is a Past Master in the Mark , a Past G . M . Overseer of Mark Grand Lodge , and a member of the Grand Masters ' Lodge . He is also a P . E . C . of the Mount Calvary Encampment , K . T ., was installed Knight of the Order of Rome and Red Cross of Constantine at the inauguration of the St . Andrew ' s Conclave , No . 15 , on the 23 rd

December , 1 S 69 ; is a P . M . P . S . and G . Orator in the G . Imperial Council , and Warder of the Patriarchal Council , K . H . S ., and St . John the Evangelist ; while in the A . and A . Rite he is a Past M . W . S . of the Mount Calvary Chapter , Rose Croix . No . 3 , and has taken the 31 ° . But these by no means represent the whole of his labours , as he is a Knight of the Royal Order of Scotland , a member of the Allied Masonic Degrees , a

Royal and Select Master , a Royal Ark Mariner , and a Rosicrucian . As regards our Institutions , he has worked incessantly to promote their wfclfare , not only by his personal contributions—he is a Vice-Patron of the Boys ' School and a Life Governor of the Girls' School and Benevolent Institution —but by giving his assistance as Festival Steward on five different occasions for the Boys' and once in each case for the other Charities , and by his

services on the House Committee of the Boys' School from the year 1 S 71—inclusive—till his election as one of the Trustees of the General Fund . It is impossib ' e he can have done all these things without trespassing largely on the time left at his disposal by his professional avocations , and we must all congratulate him on having at length received the crowning reward of a career so honourable to himself and so beneficial to the Craft at large .

GRAND STANDARD BEARERS . BRO . E . D . DAVIS is an older Mason than even Bro . H . Greene . He has been associated with the Craft in Northumberland since 1848 , when he joined the De Loraine Lodge , No . 541—then No . 793—from the then No . 312 , Barnstaple , and we find him in the said Barnstaple Lodge having joined on the ist June , 1 S 37 , from the Sincerity and Unanimity Lodge ,

No . 261 , launton , in which he was initiated in the month of April , 1835 . Those , however , who know Bro . Davis are aware that he has been among the ablest and most enlightened exponents of our ritual for upwards of 30 years , and even now is as capable of fulfilling the most arduous duties as many a brother who is only half his age . It is on record that he was appointed Prov . G . S . D . of Northumberland in 18 * 56 , and Prov .

G . S . W . in 18 57 ; that about the same time he was Prov . G . H . in the Grand Chapter of the same province , and , indeed , that as Installing Officer in Craft , Arch , and Templar Masonry , his services were in requisition everywhere , and at all times , just when the present race of middle-aged men were leaving school and thinking about taking up with some profession or calling . For a man to have followed actively the pursuits of Masonry for something like half a century , and to have followed

them with exceptional ability , so as to justify his being held up as a model for younger brethren to follow , is indeed , a rare experience , and we are rejoiced to find that his protracted services have been now rewarded wilh the purple of Grand Lodge . May he be spared to the Craft yet many years , and bestow on it the benefit of his great experience ! Be it added that Bro . Davis has lent a helping hand to our Institutions whenever the fates were propitious , and is a Life Subscriber of the Boys' School .

Bro . H . GREENE , though his name may not have appeared so often of late years , has done excellent service , and can boast of being the father of one of lhe most distinguished of our London lodges . He was initiated in the Lodge of Unions , No . 256 , on 19 th March , 1838 , and though his connection with it has not been uninterrupted—owing to his having resided in the Colonies for thc purposes of business—he rejoined in 1850 in

was appointed S . W . in 1855 , ^ elected and installed W . M . 1856 . At the celebration last November of the Centenary Festival of his mother lodge , Bro . Greene again had the satisfaction of presiding as VV . Master , and he then showed almost as much activity as in earlier years , and that he was still as capable as ever of doing the work of his office thoroughly and secundum arteiu . His presidency on that occasion , when there were

gathered round the banquet table of his lodge many of the most distinguished brethren of our lime , must be looked upon as the chief event in Bro . Greene's career , and we must all congratulate him on its having been so speedily followed by his appointment to office in Grand Lodge . Bro . Greene is a Life-Governor of , and has served Stewardships for , all our three Institutions . GRAND ORGANIST . BRO . WALTER PARRATT was initiated in the Apollo University Lodge

No * 357 * Oxford , on the 25 th May , 1875 In 1876 he was appointed its Organist , in 1879 its Junior Warden , and in 1880 was elected W .

Master , his services in the last named position baing continued during the following year . In the Province his merits have been recognised—firstly , as regards his musical ability by his appointment in 1876

as Prov . Grand Organist , and secondly as regards his work in lodge by his investiture as Prov , G . S . W . of Oxfordshire in 18 S 0 . He is now resident in the Province of Berks and Bucks , in which we

shall no doubt hear of his still further distinguishing himself . Be it added that he has served as Steward for the Girls' School , and has qualified as a Life Governor of that Institution .

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GRAND PURSUIVANT . BKO . A . LUCKING , who was appointed Assistant Grand Pursuivant last year , and whose Masonic career we fully described at the time , has , in accordance with annual custom , been promoted to the full rank of Grand Pursuivant .

ASSISTANT GRAND PURSUIVANT . Bro . WILLIAM H . PERRYMAN has been continuously and actively engaged in Masonic pursuits ever since his initiation into the mysteries of the First Degree in the Lodge of Fidelity , No . 3 , on the Sth November , 1871 .

As J . W . of that lodge he was present at the Grand Master ' s installation in 1875 . The following year he was advanced to S . W ., and in 1 S 77 was unanimously elected to the chair of W . M . In November ,

1872 , he joined the St . Clement Danes Lodge , No . 135 1 , and having passed through the various offices was installed W . M . in 18 S 1 . He is also a member of the Royal Arch , having been

exalted in the Ebury Chapter , No . 134 S , in June , 1 S 76 , and in due course was successively installed into the chairs of J ., H ., and M . E . Z . From 187 S inclusive , he has been annually elected as one of

the 12 Past Masters to serve on the Board of Benevolence , and for some years past has been one of the General Committee of G . Chapter . Be it added that Bro . Perryman is a Life Governor of the Boys' School and

Benevolent Institution , and has served one Festival Stewardship for each of those Charities .

Celebrities At Home.

CELEBRITIES AT HOME .

COLONEL SHADWELL CLERKE AT FREEMASONS' HALL , GREAT QUEEN STREET . ( From The World ) . " Great Queen-street—so called after Henrietta Maria of France , before evil days overtook the Stuarts—has long since fallen from its high estate . Its original grandeur is faded and forgotten ; fashion has left it remorselessly

in the lurch , and very little survives to remind us of Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Lord Chancellor Finch ; of the Conways and Paulets ; of Waller the poet and Lewis the comedian ; of Miss Pope and Catherine Clive the actresses ; of the famous squabble between Sir Godfrey Kneller the painter and Radcliffe the physician over their garden-wall ; of Sir Joshua Reynolds and ' beautiful Perdita , ' or of Dr . Benjamin Franklin , who came back to it

as agent lor Massachusetts after an absence of forty years , to see the press he once worked at and drink success to printing' in a gallon of porter amongst the journeymen . The Corinthian p ilasters , the dormer windows , and the bracketed and panelled wooden cornice still to be seen at No . 56 ( the house inhabited in turn by Hudson , Worlidge , Hoole , and Chippendale , and in which Richard Brinsley Sheridan passed an afternoon in meditation after

David Garrick ' s funeral ) were designed b y the great Inigo himself , and they help you to conjure up for a moment a vision of the time when their Graces of Newcastle and Ancaster drove through ' Hell Gate ' along Great Queenstreet to their mansions in Lincoln ' s-inn-fields ; when Nell Gwynne and Dr . Donne lived hard by in Drury-lane ; when Lord Buckhurst , Sir Georgo Sedley , and Etherege the poet sauntered across it coming from the Duke's

Theatre in Portugal-street ; and a century later , when it was crowded by the coaches and sedan chairs of the sitters who flocked to the studio of fortunate John Opie . A struggling theatre , the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , a Methodist chapel with a cream-coloured portico , coachbuilders , printers , and a legion of small shopkeepers have taken undisputed possession of the site hallowed by so many old-world traditions . But in its

midst there rises a building which forms an appropriate link between the present and the past of the historical thoroughfare in which it stands . Sheridan was still living at No . 56 when Lord Petre and the Dukes of Beaufort and Chandos determined to transfer the Masonic Diet from the abodes of the City Companies or « some well-chosen and commodious tavern' to a fixed home of its own . No time was lost in carrying out the resolution

arrived at : two large dwelling-houses with gardens attached were promptly purchased , and in 1776 Mr . Richard Cox ' s hall was solemnly dedicated to * Masonry , Virtue , Universal Charity , and Benevolence . ' Since then the name of Great Queen-street has been closel y associated with the annals of the powerful Masonic Fraternity . " Nearly a quarter of a century ago Mr . Frederic Cockerell made many

important additions to the original unpretending structure . The imposing composite Greek facade was his handiwork , and its various details commend themselves to our respectful attention . Ionic columns on a rustic basement support an elaborate cornice ; the escalloped masks in the frieze bear a striking resemblance to the familar portraits of Queen Elizabeth ; while , from their niches near the attic story , four female figures in stone , endowed

respectively with a hon , a child , a sword , and an owl , and presumably typifying Strength , Charity , Justice , and Wisdom , seem to look down regretfully on the comparative homeliness of the surrounding emporia . The signs of the zodiac are portrayed on a circular-headed architrave surmounted by the Masons' arms , in the centre of the building , and immediately above the

entrance , which is in every way worthy of the mysterious precir . cts to which it leads . Slabs of polished Peterhead granite , and heavy mouldings in stone , sustain the weight of a massive lintel , on which the words ' Audi Vide Tace' are carved with awe-aspiring distinctiveness , whilst two robust cherubs beneath support , by their united endeavours , the sacred ' point within a centre' in marble and bronze . The red brickwork of the adjoining