Junior Grand Warden.

Prov . G . Principal Sojourner . He has also played a distinguished part in other degrees . He was advanced to the Mark in No . 225 , Dublin , in June , 1872 . is a Past Master of St . Barnabas Lodge , No . 97 , Linslade , was one of the founders and first Treasurer of the Gladsmuir Lod ge , No . 367 , Barnet , in 1 SS 6 , and served a * W . M . in 1 SS 9 , and is a joining member of Grand Masters Lodge . In 1885 , ihe collar ot l . G . D . of the Mark Grand Lodge

was conferred upon him , while in iSSS and 1 SS 9 , and again in 1 S 90 and 1891 , P / ovincial honours in Hertfordshire fell to his lot , " the rank of Prov . G . M . O . being assigned him during the first two years , and that of Prov . S . G . W . during the last two . He was installed K . T . in the Stuart Encampment , Watford , in 1 S 77 , was installed E . C . in 1 SS 4 , is a Prior of the Order of Malta , and a Past G . A . D . C . in Great Priory . He is likewise a Past

G . Jun . General in the Order of Rome and the Red Cross of Constantine , a men bar of the R . & S . Masters and the Allied Degrees , as well as of the Royal Order of Scotland , and Past M . W . S . of the Invicta Rose Croix Chapter , No . 10 , and took the 31 of the A . & . A . Rite in 1 SS 9 . Lastly , he is a Vice-President of our three Institutions , and has served as Steward at 17 different Festivals , namely , four times for the Girls' School , five times for the Boys' School , and eight times fcr the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution .

Bro . GEORGE WILLIAM SI ' , whose name is SO widely known as the able and obliging Secretary of our great literary lodge—Quatuor Coronati , No . 2076—and the editor of its Transactions and Antigrapha , may be said to have contracted an hereditary love for Freemasonry , his father , George William Speth , having been initiated in the Lodge of Unity , No . 183 — which met at the time at the George and Vulture , Cornhill . as No . 215 -on

Ihe 24 th of June , 1 S 42 and after serving the offices of I . G ., S . D ., and S . VV . was elected and installed VV . M . in 1 S 46 . This honour was twice subsequently conferred upon him , in the years 1 S 49 and 1850 , while from 1 S 55 to 1 S 6 7 he was annually appointed Secretary , and in the latter year , and annually until the day of his death in 1 S 78 , he . held the more responsible , if less laborious , office of Treasurer . Bro . Speth has followed worthil y in his

father ' s footsteps , and if he has not , like him , thrice served his mother lodge as Master , and subsequently for 23 years as its Secretary or Treasurer , it is because he has been called upon to fill other and more important , and more arduous duties . He was initiated in No . 1 S 3 , during the lifetime of his father , on the 22 nd January , 1 S 72 , and having successively held pr cisely the same offices of I . G ., S . D .. and S . W . as his father before him had held ,

he was at length installed as Master on the 271 b March , 1 S 76 , and doubtless had the pleasure of investing his father , on more than one occasion , as the Treasurer of their common mother lodge . In 1880 he was the lodge Organist , while the year following he published the history of his Lodge of Unity , No . 183 , from its constitution in 1769 , though , owing to the loss of its original wai rant and all the records anterior to 17 S 2 , it was impossible

for him 10 say much about its earlier career . This history , as we hive said , was compiled and published in 1 S 81 , the year in which the M . W . G . Master was pleased 10 grant it a Centenary Warrant , so that those who take an interest in lodge histories , and feel inclined to study the pleasantly-written and trustworthy narrative which our brother compiled as a memento of its centenary commemoiation , will be able to learn all it is possible to learn

respecting this particular Lodge of Unity . In 18 S 4 Bro . Speth busied himself , in conjunction with the late Bro . the Rev . A . F . A . Woodford , Bros . W . J . Hughan and R . F . Gould , and other leading literary brethren , in founding the Lodge Quatuor Coronati , No . 2076 , and from the day of its consecration until now he has held uninterruptedly what in this , more than in any other lodge under the English Constitution , is the exceedingly

onerous and responsible post of Secretary . In this capacity he has , as we have before mentioned , edited all the annual volumes of its Transactions , and has been the presiding genius in the publication of all its "Antigrapha , " or ' * Reprints . " ln addition , he has looked after the more mundane interests of his lodge , the compilation of its minutes , the collection of its annual subscriptions—and this alone is no light task in the case of a lodge which ,

taking ils Inner and Correspondence Circles together , has a muster-roll of some 2000 members—the cataloguing ot its library , and last , but not least , the organisation of its annual excursions . Yet , in spite of all these heavy claims upon his time , Bro . Speth occasionally finds leisure to visit other lodges and deliver lectures on the more important questions which arise in connection with our history and the subject of Degrees , & c , Sec . VVe are

confident we are not detracting from the very great merits pertaining to the Other members of this important lodge when we affirm that much , if not most , of its success is due to his untiring energy and marvellous capacity for work , and we feel sure there is not a brother on the register of Grand Lodge who will grudge the Secretary of Lodge Quatuor Coronati the brevet rank of Past Asst . G . Director of Ceremonies which His Royal Highness

the M . W . Grand Master has been pleased to confer upon him . As far as lodge and chapter work is concerned , it only remains for us to add that Bro . Speih was elected a joining member of United Industrious Lodge , No . 31 , Canterbury , some two or three years ago , that he was exalted in the Francis Burdett Chapter , No . 1503 , on the 24 th April , 1883 , became a joining member of the Wellington Chapter , No . 784 , Deal , in 1894 , and is at tt e present moment its J . elect . He is , however , an honorary member of

quite a number of lodges , prominent among them being the Humber Installed Masters , No . 2494 , Hull , as weil as of the Illinois and Minnesota Veteran Associa ions ; nor must we lose sight of the fact that , though his duties do not permit him to give the time lor acting as a Festival Steward for our Institutions , he has not been unmindful of their claims upon his support , and has qualified as a Life Governor both of the Boys' and Girls ' Schools and the R . M . Benevolent Institution .

Bro . FREDERICK LAWRANCE , who has been appointed P . A . G . D . C , was initiated on the mh March , 1873 , in the Harmony Lodge , No . 255 , which meets at Richmond , Surrey , and had the honour of twice presiding over it as W . Master—in 1880 and 1881 . In 188 3 , he assisted in loundii g ihe Chiswick Lodge , No . 2012 , was installed W . M . in 1888 , and is its present Treasurer , while last year he joined firstly the Dene Lodge , No . 2228 , Cookham , Bucks , and secondly tne Rahere Lodge , No . 2546 . He

was exalted in the Iris Chapter , No . 255 , Richmond , in November , 1879 , was intta'led M . E . Z . on the 20 th May , 1883 , and is at the present moment Z . elect , and will be installed for vhe second lime in the chair of First Principal in ihe course of the present month , He has qualified as a Life Governor of all three Institutions , and has served in all six Festival Stewardships , three having been in behalf of the Girls' School , two for the Boys' School , and one for the R . M . Benevolent Institution .

Junior Grand Warden.

Bro . THOS . H . GARDINER was initiated in the Buckingham and Chandos Lodge , No . 1150 , on the 20 th April , i 88 i , and in February , 1891 , was installed in the Master ' s chair . In the interim , however , he joined the Canonbury Lodge , No . 657 , and was elected to preside over it as Master early in 1 SS 6 . On the 2 nd February , 1883 , he was exalted a Royal Arch Mason in the British Chapter , No . 8 , and occupied the chair of First Principal Z .

concurrently with that of Master of his mother lodge , that is to say , during the year 1 S 91 . As regards our Institutions , it will be recognised that he has done his duty to them , hav ' ng qualified as Vice- Patron of the G ' rls' School , and Life Governor of the Boys ' School and Benevolent Instituli m , while , including the one for which he has given his services on the 13 'h instant , he has served ten Stewardships for the Girls' Institution , ar . d one for the Boys ' School .

PAST GRAND SWORD BEARERS .

Bro , Col . HUGH N . GORDON , J . P ., was initiated in the Burdett Ledge , No . 1293 , Hampton Court , on the 25 th October , 18 73 ; rose through the various offices to that of W . M ., in which he w « s installed in January , 1881 , and was appointed Prov . G . Deacon of Middles'x in the autumn of that year . In 1884 , he was a founder and first S . VV . of the VVest Kent Volunteer Lodge , No . 2041 , Plumstead , and was installed VV . M . in 188 = ; . Of

both these lodges he is at the present time Treasurer , having been elected to that position in January , 1884 . in the case of his mother lodge , and to that of Lodge No . 2041 in July , 18 S 6 , on his vacation cf the Master ' s chair . He was exalted in the Burdett Chapter , No . 1293 , on the 22 nd May , 1 S 75 ; installed in the chair of First Principal Z . in January , 1 S 84 , and had conferred

upon him the office of Prov . G . S . B . in the Prov . G Chapter of Middlesex in September , 1 S 86 . He isa Vice-President and Member of the Finance and Petitions' Committees of the Rojal JSfasonic Institution for Girls , and a Life Governor of the Boys' School and Benevolent Institution , and has served six times as Steward for "Our Girls , " once for "Our Boys , " and twice for ihe " Old People . "

Bro . Major C VV . CARRELL , who well deserves the brevet rank of Past G . S . B . in recognition of the many and varied services he has rendered to Freemasonry , was initiated in the Victoria Paik Lodge , No . 1816 , in December , 1879 . and has been twice installed in its chair , namely , in 1885 and 18 S 6 , while in the Old Kings Arms Lodge , No . 28 , of which he became a joining member the following year , a similar honour has bsen conferred

upon him , and he has but j-. ist vacated the Mister ' s chair , after occupying it for two consecutive years . In 1888 , he was one of the founders of the West Ham Abbey Lodge , No . 2291 , and during the first year of its existence did duty as its acting Past Master , while in 1889 he was a founder and first Deputy Mas'er of London Irish R-flen Lodge , of which the Dukeof Connaught very graciously undertook to be the W . M ., and on his Royal

Highness ' s return from India , Major Carrell had the honour of installing him in the chair . In 1 S 95 , he joined Doyle ' s Lodge of Friendship , No . 84 , Guernsey , and shortly afterwards had the honour of being appointed Prov . Senior Grand Warden of Guernsey and Alderney . He was exalted to the Royal Arch in Mount Zion Chapter , No . 22 , on the 12 th A pril , 1886 , and having three years later joined the Old King ' s Arms Chapter , No . 28 , was

in 1894 . installed in the chair of M . E . Z . In the Mark Degree he has been an especially active member . Having been advanced in the Scots Lodge , No . 406 , he was elected and installed W . M . in 1093 , and is now the Treasurer of the lodge . In 1890 , he was one of the founders and is the present W . M . of the Grafton Lodge , No . 415 ; in 1891 , a founder and first W . M . of the Hibernia Lodge , No . 431 ; and , in 1893 , a founder and first W . M . of

the West Ham Abbey Lodge , No . 467 , while last year he assisted in founding the Buenos Ayres Lodge , No . 4 S 1 , which meets in the capital of the Argentine Republic , and of the Dramatic Lodge , No . 4 S 9 . He is also a member of Grand Master ' s Lodge , and has been annually elected a member of the General Board since 1892 . In 1890 , he was appointed a Grand Steward , and served as President of the Board , and , in 1 S 93 , he had

bestowed upon him the office of Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies . He is a Vice-Patron , and has served six Stewardships . in behalf of the Mark Benevolent Fund , and has been thrice elected President of the Board of Stewards . He is also a Royal Ark Mariner , and has served in the Grand Master ' s Council of that Degree since 1892 ; and a member of the Allied Degrees , a P . M . of the Four King ' s Council , No . 7 , in which the Degrees

were conferred upon him , a member of the Rose and Lily Council , No . 15 ; and in the Grand Council was appointed G " . B . in 1 S 94 and J . G . Warden last year . He is a Royal and Select Master , a member of the St . Andrew ' s Conclave of the Order of Rome and the Red Cross of Constantine ; a Knight Templar in the St . George ' s , St . Michael ' s , and Royal Naval Preceptories of that Order ; and in the Ancient and Accepted Rite has been perfected Rose Croix in the Rose and Lily Chapter—in which beholds office

— as well as a subscribing member of the Adoniram and Victory Chapters , and , in 1894 , received the 30 ° from the Supreme Council of the Rite . His services to the three great Central Masonic Institutions have been both many and great , the number of Festivals at which he has been included in the Board of Stewards being 22 , while , as regards his personal donations to these Charities , he ranks as a Vice-Patron of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution and a Vice-President of both our Schools .

Bro . J AMES MORRISON MCLEOD , who was appointed Secretary of the Masonic Institution for Boys in 1890 , and now receives the same brevet rank of Past G . S . B . which was conferred on his predecessor , Bro . Fred Binckes , and the Secretaries of the two other Masonic Institutions at the Masonic Commemoration of the Queen ' s Jubilee in 18 S 7 , was initiated on the 5 th March , 1877 , ' n lne Lodge of Unanimity , No . 113 , Preston , Province of

West Lancashire , and has continued ever since to be a subscribing member . Shortly afterwards—about 1 S 79—he joined the Newton Lodge , No . 1661 , Newark-on-Trent , and remained a member till 1893 ; the Derwent Lodge , No . 884 , Wirksworth , over which he presided as W . M ., firstly in 1883 and again in 18 90 ; the Lathom Lodge , No . 2229 , Southport , VV . Lancashire , and the Starkie Lodge , No . 1070 , which meets in the same locality , and of which he is the present W . Master . He is also a founder , and was the first

W . M . of the Barnet Lodge , No . 2509 , which is in the London district , and was consecrated at the Assembly Rooms , New Barnet , in the summer of 1894 , Add to this , lhat he has been twice a recipient of Provincial honours , namely , in 1885 , when he was appointed Prov . G . Std . Bearer of Derbyshire , and again in 1890 , when he received the collar of S . G . Warden of the same Province , and it will surprise only a very few brethren that he should on this occasion have secured the honours of Past G . Sword Bearer of England . In Royal Arch Masonry , he was exalted in the Chapter of