Bro. George Kenning.

BRO . GEORGE KENNING .

There are times when it is difficult , even to the verge of impossibility , to express the feelings by which we are influenced , and to us the present is one of those times . Rro . GEORGE KENNING , for many years past one of the most familiar and

influential personalities in Metropolitan Freemasonry , and with whom we have been necessarily connected for a very considerable portion of that time , died , with almost appalling suddenness , at his house at Sydenham , late on Saturday evening last , and Eng lish Freemasonry is the poorer by this death of one of its

most devoted and respected members . Bro . RUNNING was one of the simplest and kindest of men . The longer and more intimatel y you knew him the more you learnt to esteem him , and to appreciate the acts of kindness he was constantly doing .

Not only was lie the centre of a rare love and affection and the most profound respect in his own family as well as among all who had the privilege of claiming him as friend . Not only was he

looked up to and almost reverenced by the host of people in his employ as the head and founder of about the largest business establishment of its kind in this country . His fame had

Bro. George Kenning.

extended far beyond his family , his large circle of friends and acquaintances , and his London and Provincial staff , and he was known everywhere as a man of the greatest energy and ability , who , in the course of a long and busy life , had successfull y wooed Fortune , and in doing so had secured to himself , not the

envy and dislike of his less fortunate rivals , but their admiration and regard as a man of sterling worth , whose-word was his bond , and who at all times was as ready and willing , as he was able , to do a kindness to his nei ghbour . Among Masons Bro . GEORGE KENNING necessarily occupied

a position of influence , not merely because he had been a member of the Fraternity for over 40 years and had rendered it well nigh innumerable services , such as will be found enumerated in the record we append of his Masonic career ; but because as the

proprietor of this journal , and as publisher of many of the best known standard works on Freemasonry , he has done more than any brother of our time to encourage and promote a desire for

Masonic knowledge . In March , 186 9 , he founded the Freemason ; in 18 72 , the Masonic Monthly Magazine , the publication of which , however , he discontinued in the earl y " eigh ' . ies " ; and