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New Grand Officers.
NEW GRAND OFFICERS .
We give , in accordance with our promise of last week , full particulars of the Masonic careers of the brethren severally appointed Grand Officers for the present year , and , in the few cases in which we have been so fortunate as to obtain them , the memoir is accompanied by a kind of pen-and-ink sketch of its distinguished subject .
GRAND SENIOR WARDEN . Bro . the Marquis of HERTFORD was initiated in the United Lodge , No . 1629 , in July 1879 , when he was known by the courtesy title of the Earl of Yarmouth , and sat in the House of Commons as one of the
members for the Southern Division of Warwickshire . He has successively filled both the Wardens' chairs , and is now W . M . of the lodge . In 1881 he was exalted to the Royal Arch Degree in the United Chapter , attached to his mother lodge , and we believe is , or quite recently was , a candidate for advancement to the Mark Degree .
GRAND JUNIOR WARDEN . Bro . the Hon . W . E . SACKVILLE-WEST was initiated in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , Oxford , in June , 1851 , and in 1877 succeeded the
late Duke of Albany as its W . M . His earliest provincial honours were obtained in 1874 , when he was appointed Prov . G . Supt . of Works Oxon , the still higher honour of Prov . G . S . W . being
conferred upon him three years later , during his Mastership of the Apollo University Lodge . He is at the present time Treasurer of the United Lodge , No . 1629 . He was exalted in the Apollo
University Chapter in iS 74 and in 1878 , 1 S 79 , and 1 SS 0 , successively filled the chairs of J ., H ., and M . E . Z . He was W . M . of the Royal Leek Lodge , No . 1849 , Bangor , in 1883 , and is a subscribing member of St .
David ' s Lodge , No . 3 S 4 , Bangor . He is a Mark Master Mason , having been advanced in the Studholme Lodge , No . 197 , on 1 st February , 18 77 , a Knight Templar , and a member of the A . and A . Rite , having been
perfected in the Oxford University Chapter of Rose Croix , No . 40 , of which he was M . W . S . in the years 1 S 75 and 1876 , the 31 of G . I . I . C . being also conferred upon him in the latter year . He has qualified as a Life Governor of the Female Fund of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution .
GRAND CHAPLAINS . Bro . the Rev . G . RAYMOND PORTAL , from the very beginning of his career , has taken a very active and prominent part in the concerns of Masonry . He was initiated in 1 S 4 S , when an undergraduate at Oxford , in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , and in two years was elected to fill the chairs of Master and Prov . Grand Junior Warden of Oxfordshire , that
of Prov . Grand Senior Warden being assigned to him the year following ; the share he had , in conjunction with other University brethren , in giving renewing vitality to the Churchill Lodge , No . 478 , Oxford—of which he was appointed and invested Senior Deacon in 1850—having , no doubt , had its influence in securing for him the appointment . A few years later—in 1 S 55 —we find him exercising his zeal successfully in his endeavour to still further promote the well-being of Freemasonry , his new sphere of action being in
London , and the lodge , for . whose benefit he laboured so strenuously , the Westminster and Keystone , No . 10 , which , though one of the oldest lodges on the roll of Grand Lodge , was at the time in a sadly declining state . Thanks , however , to the efforts of our reverend brother , in conjunction with those of Bros . W . W . B . Beach , Wyndham Portal , the late R . J . Spiers , and others , this ancient lodge was speedily placed on a sound and healthy basis as a London home for Masons from Oxford , and thenceforward it has been one of the
strongest and most influential of our Metropolitan lodges . At this revival the post of Secretary was conferred on Bro . Portal , and in 1862 he was installed W . M . His membership has continued till the present time , and , though he is now an honorary instead of a subscribing member , we presume he is none the less entitled to the designation of Father of the lodge . He ¦ was also for a time a joining member of the Economy Lodge , No . 76 ,
Winchester , and while so connected with it was appointed Prov . Grand Chaplain of Hampshire ; but the principal scene of his labours was in London for many years , and no voice was more frequently or more conspicuously heard in Grand Lodge—especially in the excited discussions over the Canadian question—than that of the brother whose career we are briefly summarising . Bro . Portal is likewise a Royal Arch—P . Z . of the Grove Chapter ,
No . 410 , Ewell — - Templar , and Rose Croix Mason , but the Degree to which—if we omit Craft Masonry from our considerationhe seems to have given the most of his attention appears to have been the Mark , to which he was advanced in April , 1856 , the year when the Mark Grand Lodge was established , Bro . Portal being its first Grand Chaplain . In 1857 he joined the Carnarvon Mark Lodge , No . 7 , and was elected VV , M . in i 860 .
In 1862 he was a founder and first S . W . of the University Lodge , No . 55 , Oxford , and is a Past Master of the Porchester Lodge , No . 27 , Newbury ; a founder of the Percy Lodge , No . 114 , Guildford ; a joining member and Past Master of the Wyndham Lodge , No . 37 , Basingstoke ; and honorary member of the Grand Master's and numerous other Mark lodges . He was appointed Deputy Grand Mark Master Mason in 1866 , and Grand Mark Master Mason in 1869 , and in 18 73 was installed Prov . Grand Mark Master Mason of Hants and the Isle of Wight . As President of the General
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Board , he necessarily takes the lead in conducting the internal affairs of Mark Masonry . Bro . Portal is also Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters and Grand Master of the Grand Council of the Allied Degrees , both of which bodies , under the more complete organisation of which he is the head , have latterly attained a very considerable degree of
prosperity . It remains for us to add that our rev . brother is Life Governor of the Boys' School and Benevolent Institution ( Male Fund ) , for both of which he has acted as Festival Steward , and a Life Governor of the Mark Grand Lodge Benevolent Fund , in the establishment and extension of which he has always evinced a large amount of interest .
Bro . Rev . R . N . SANDERSON , like his brother Grand Chaplain , has also taken a very conspicuous part in the doings of the Craft , and its several branches , the difference between the two being that Bro . Sanderson ' s sphere of activity has been more particularly confined to the Province of Suffolk . It was not however , in a Suffolk , but in a London lodge , —the Moira , No . 92—that he obtained his first insight into our mysteries , the event
happening on the 26 th of February , 1856 . In 185 s he joined Perfect Friendshi p Lodge , No . 37 6 , Ipswich , and shortly afterwards was appointed Prov . G . Chaplain of Suffolk , being annually re-elected to the same office till 186 5 inclusive . Later on we find him W . M . of the Prince of Wales Lodge , No . 959 , and now he is Chaplain of the British Union , No . 114 , both these being also Ipswich lodges . In Royal Arch Masonry he has attained equal
distinction , having been exalted in the Royal Sussex Chapter , No . 376 , Ipswich , in 1858 , and filled the chair of Z . in the Royal Alexandra Chapter , No . 959 , Ipswich , in the years 1 S 68 , 1869 , 1872 , 1873 , 1 S 77 , 1878 , and 1883 ; while as regards the province , he was Provincial G . S . N , in 1878 , and Provincial G . H . in 18 S 3 . In the Mark Degree , to which he was advanced in March , 1866 , in the Albert Victor Lodge ,
No . 70 , Ipswich , he has been still more successful . He is a P . M . of No . 70 , having occupied the chair of W . M . in the years 1 S 67 , 1868 , 18 70 , 1871 , 1875-6-7-8-9 , a subscribing member of the Freeman Lodge , No . 105 , Bury St . Edmund ' s , which he joined in 1870 , and founder and first W . M . —in 1872—of the Constantine Mark Lodge , No . 145 , Colchester . He was Grand Chaplain of the Mark Grand Lodge in 1869 , and again in 1881 ,
and is Prov . Grand Chaplain of the Mark Province of East Anglia . In the A . and A . Rite , in which he has attained the 30 , he was perfected in and is a Past M . W . S . of the Victoria Rose Croix , No . 22 , Ipswich , and in Templar Masonry , Prov . Sub-Prior of East Anglia . In short , in all the Degrees which have made homes for themselves in Suffolk and the vicinity , Bro .
Sanderson has played an honourable and honoured part , though it is most likely that his services in connection with Craft Masonry , in which , as a Prov . G . Chaplain , he has had many opportunities of influencing the brethren for good by his eloquent addresses , have been the most valuable to the Fraternity . Our rev . brother is a life subscriber to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys .
GRAND TREASURER . Bro . J WOODALL WOODALL , late Major Yorkshire Regiment Art . Mil ., and a member of the well-known banking firm which bears his name , was initiated in the Hope Lodge , No . 202 , Bradford , West Yorkshire , February 18 th , 1856 . The year following he was appointed S . W . of the Old Globe Lodge , No . 200 ( then 236 ) , Scarborough , in the Province of N . and E . Yorkshire , and in i 860 was installed its W . M . In 1861 he was appointed
P . G . J . W . by the then P . G . M ., the late Earl of Zetland , M . W . G . M . England , and the year followfng he was-promoted to the office ol P . G . S . W . He was exalted to the Royal Arch in the Old Globe Chapter , No . 200 , March 12 th , 1859 , and was elected M . E . Z . in 1868 , 1878 - 79 , and M . E . Z . of the Denison Chapter , No . 1248 , in 1-873 . He was elected Treasurer of the Old Globe Lodge in 1864 , to which office he has been continuously re-elected up to the present time . He took a prominent part in the formation of the " Charities Association " for the Province of N . and E .
Yorkshire , and is the Charity Representative of that province , as well as Prov . Grand Treasurer of the Prov . Grand Chapter N . and E . Yorkshire . He was one of the founders of the Denison Lodge , No . 1248 , Scarborough , in 1868 , and has remained ever since a subscribing member . He was also a founder , in 1878 , of the Leopold Lodge , No . 17 60 , Scarborough , the members holding the valuable assistance he then afforded them in
such high estimation , that they elected him , in conjunction with H . R . H . the late Duke of Albany , to an honorary membership . He is also a subscribing member of the Westminster and Keystone Lodge , No . 10 , having joined in 1872 , and of the Apollo University Lodge , Oxford , and is a Vice-President of and has served the office of Steward for the various Masonic Charitable Institutions on eight different occasions .
On Monday , the 4 th inst ., he was chosen President of the Board of Stewards for the Festival , in June , of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . He was elected Grand Treasurer by a large majority of votes at the Quarterly Communication in March . As a Mark Master Mason , he was advanced in the Minerva Lodge of M . M . M ., No . 12 . Hullin 1866 . In the followinp- year he was elected first S . W . of
, the Star-in-the-East Lodge , No . 95 , Scarborough , of which he was a founder ; in 1867 was elected and installed W . M . of the same lodge ; was appointed G . M . O . of Grand Mark Lodge in 1869 , and in 1881 had the honour of being selected as the first P . G . M . M . M . of the newly-constituted Province of North and East Yorkshire , the brethren having so high an opinion of his abilitiesthat they have just re-elected him to the same honourable position .
, In this capacity he presided at the annual Festival of the Mark Benevolent Fund in July , 1884 . As a Templar , Bro . Woodall is P . E . C . of the Geoffrey de Bouillon Preceptory , Scarborough , No . 91 , Past Grand Standard Bearer ( Beauceant ) of the National Great Priory ; an honorary member of the Mary Commandery , No . 36 , Philadel p hia ; of the Apollo Commandery » No . 1 , Chicago , United States of America ; and of the Ancient Ebor Pre-0
ceptory , No . 101 , York . He is a member of the 32 of the A . and A . Scottish Rite , and Past M . W . S . of the Hilda Chapter , Rose Croix , Whitby ( now transferred to York ); an Intendant General of Division , unattached , in the Degree of the Red Cross of Rome and Constantine , Past Pr ° ' Treasurer Yorkshire College of Rosicrucians , a member of the Royal Order of Scotland , and honorary member of several Craft and Mark lodges .
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New Grand Officers.
NEW GRAND OFFICERS .
We give , in accordance with our promise of last week , full particulars of the Masonic careers of the brethren severally appointed Grand Officers for the present year , and , in the few cases in which we have been so fortunate as to obtain them , the memoir is accompanied by a kind of pen-and-ink sketch of its distinguished subject .
GRAND SENIOR WARDEN . Bro . the Marquis of HERTFORD was initiated in the United Lodge , No . 1629 , in July 1879 , when he was known by the courtesy title of the Earl of Yarmouth , and sat in the House of Commons as one of the
members for the Southern Division of Warwickshire . He has successively filled both the Wardens' chairs , and is now W . M . of the lodge . In 1881 he was exalted to the Royal Arch Degree in the United Chapter , attached to his mother lodge , and we believe is , or quite recently was , a candidate for advancement to the Mark Degree .
GRAND JUNIOR WARDEN . Bro . the Hon . W . E . SACKVILLE-WEST was initiated in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , Oxford , in June , 1851 , and in 1877 succeeded the
late Duke of Albany as its W . M . His earliest provincial honours were obtained in 1874 , when he was appointed Prov . G . Supt . of Works Oxon , the still higher honour of Prov . G . S . W . being
conferred upon him three years later , during his Mastership of the Apollo University Lodge . He is at the present time Treasurer of the United Lodge , No . 1629 . He was exalted in the Apollo
University Chapter in iS 74 and in 1878 , 1 S 79 , and 1 SS 0 , successively filled the chairs of J ., H ., and M . E . Z . He was W . M . of the Royal Leek Lodge , No . 1849 , Bangor , in 1883 , and is a subscribing member of St .
David ' s Lodge , No . 3 S 4 , Bangor . He is a Mark Master Mason , having been advanced in the Studholme Lodge , No . 197 , on 1 st February , 18 77 , a Knight Templar , and a member of the A . and A . Rite , having been
perfected in the Oxford University Chapter of Rose Croix , No . 40 , of which he was M . W . S . in the years 1 S 75 and 1876 , the 31 of G . I . I . C . being also conferred upon him in the latter year . He has qualified as a Life Governor of the Female Fund of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution .
GRAND CHAPLAINS . Bro . the Rev . G . RAYMOND PORTAL , from the very beginning of his career , has taken a very active and prominent part in the concerns of Masonry . He was initiated in 1 S 4 S , when an undergraduate at Oxford , in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , and in two years was elected to fill the chairs of Master and Prov . Grand Junior Warden of Oxfordshire , that
of Prov . Grand Senior Warden being assigned to him the year following ; the share he had , in conjunction with other University brethren , in giving renewing vitality to the Churchill Lodge , No . 478 , Oxford—of which he was appointed and invested Senior Deacon in 1850—having , no doubt , had its influence in securing for him the appointment . A few years later—in 1 S 55 —we find him exercising his zeal successfully in his endeavour to still further promote the well-being of Freemasonry , his new sphere of action being in
London , and the lodge , for . whose benefit he laboured so strenuously , the Westminster and Keystone , No . 10 , which , though one of the oldest lodges on the roll of Grand Lodge , was at the time in a sadly declining state . Thanks , however , to the efforts of our reverend brother , in conjunction with those of Bros . W . W . B . Beach , Wyndham Portal , the late R . J . Spiers , and others , this ancient lodge was speedily placed on a sound and healthy basis as a London home for Masons from Oxford , and thenceforward it has been one of the
strongest and most influential of our Metropolitan lodges . At this revival the post of Secretary was conferred on Bro . Portal , and in 1862 he was installed W . M . His membership has continued till the present time , and , though he is now an honorary instead of a subscribing member , we presume he is none the less entitled to the designation of Father of the lodge . He ¦ was also for a time a joining member of the Economy Lodge , No . 76 ,
Winchester , and while so connected with it was appointed Prov . Grand Chaplain of Hampshire ; but the principal scene of his labours was in London for many years , and no voice was more frequently or more conspicuously heard in Grand Lodge—especially in the excited discussions over the Canadian question—than that of the brother whose career we are briefly summarising . Bro . Portal is likewise a Royal Arch—P . Z . of the Grove Chapter ,
No . 410 , Ewell — - Templar , and Rose Croix Mason , but the Degree to which—if we omit Craft Masonry from our considerationhe seems to have given the most of his attention appears to have been the Mark , to which he was advanced in April , 1856 , the year when the Mark Grand Lodge was established , Bro . Portal being its first Grand Chaplain . In 1857 he joined the Carnarvon Mark Lodge , No . 7 , and was elected VV , M . in i 860 .
In 1862 he was a founder and first S . W . of the University Lodge , No . 55 , Oxford , and is a Past Master of the Porchester Lodge , No . 27 , Newbury ; a founder of the Percy Lodge , No . 114 , Guildford ; a joining member and Past Master of the Wyndham Lodge , No . 37 , Basingstoke ; and honorary member of the Grand Master's and numerous other Mark lodges . He was appointed Deputy Grand Mark Master Mason in 1866 , and Grand Mark Master Mason in 1869 , and in 18 73 was installed Prov . Grand Mark Master Mason of Hants and the Isle of Wight . As President of the General
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Board , he necessarily takes the lead in conducting the internal affairs of Mark Masonry . Bro . Portal is also Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters and Grand Master of the Grand Council of the Allied Degrees , both of which bodies , under the more complete organisation of which he is the head , have latterly attained a very considerable degree of
prosperity . It remains for us to add that our rev . brother is Life Governor of the Boys' School and Benevolent Institution ( Male Fund ) , for both of which he has acted as Festival Steward , and a Life Governor of the Mark Grand Lodge Benevolent Fund , in the establishment and extension of which he has always evinced a large amount of interest .
Bro . Rev . R . N . SANDERSON , like his brother Grand Chaplain , has also taken a very conspicuous part in the doings of the Craft , and its several branches , the difference between the two being that Bro . Sanderson ' s sphere of activity has been more particularly confined to the Province of Suffolk . It was not however , in a Suffolk , but in a London lodge , —the Moira , No . 92—that he obtained his first insight into our mysteries , the event
happening on the 26 th of February , 1856 . In 185 s he joined Perfect Friendshi p Lodge , No . 37 6 , Ipswich , and shortly afterwards was appointed Prov . G . Chaplain of Suffolk , being annually re-elected to the same office till 186 5 inclusive . Later on we find him W . M . of the Prince of Wales Lodge , No . 959 , and now he is Chaplain of the British Union , No . 114 , both these being also Ipswich lodges . In Royal Arch Masonry he has attained equal
distinction , having been exalted in the Royal Sussex Chapter , No . 376 , Ipswich , in 1858 , and filled the chair of Z . in the Royal Alexandra Chapter , No . 959 , Ipswich , in the years 1 S 68 , 1869 , 1872 , 1873 , 1 S 77 , 1878 , and 1883 ; while as regards the province , he was Provincial G . S . N , in 1878 , and Provincial G . H . in 18 S 3 . In the Mark Degree , to which he was advanced in March , 1866 , in the Albert Victor Lodge ,
No . 70 , Ipswich , he has been still more successful . He is a P . M . of No . 70 , having occupied the chair of W . M . in the years 1 S 67 , 1868 , 18 70 , 1871 , 1875-6-7-8-9 , a subscribing member of the Freeman Lodge , No . 105 , Bury St . Edmund ' s , which he joined in 1870 , and founder and first W . M . —in 1872—of the Constantine Mark Lodge , No . 145 , Colchester . He was Grand Chaplain of the Mark Grand Lodge in 1869 , and again in 1881 ,
and is Prov . Grand Chaplain of the Mark Province of East Anglia . In the A . and A . Rite , in which he has attained the 30 , he was perfected in and is a Past M . W . S . of the Victoria Rose Croix , No . 22 , Ipswich , and in Templar Masonry , Prov . Sub-Prior of East Anglia . In short , in all the Degrees which have made homes for themselves in Suffolk and the vicinity , Bro .
Sanderson has played an honourable and honoured part , though it is most likely that his services in connection with Craft Masonry , in which , as a Prov . G . Chaplain , he has had many opportunities of influencing the brethren for good by his eloquent addresses , have been the most valuable to the Fraternity . Our rev . brother is a life subscriber to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys .
GRAND TREASURER . Bro . J WOODALL WOODALL , late Major Yorkshire Regiment Art . Mil ., and a member of the well-known banking firm which bears his name , was initiated in the Hope Lodge , No . 202 , Bradford , West Yorkshire , February 18 th , 1856 . The year following he was appointed S . W . of the Old Globe Lodge , No . 200 ( then 236 ) , Scarborough , in the Province of N . and E . Yorkshire , and in i 860 was installed its W . M . In 1861 he was appointed
P . G . J . W . by the then P . G . M ., the late Earl of Zetland , M . W . G . M . England , and the year followfng he was-promoted to the office ol P . G . S . W . He was exalted to the Royal Arch in the Old Globe Chapter , No . 200 , March 12 th , 1859 , and was elected M . E . Z . in 1868 , 1878 - 79 , and M . E . Z . of the Denison Chapter , No . 1248 , in 1-873 . He was elected Treasurer of the Old Globe Lodge in 1864 , to which office he has been continuously re-elected up to the present time . He took a prominent part in the formation of the " Charities Association " for the Province of N . and E .
Yorkshire , and is the Charity Representative of that province , as well as Prov . Grand Treasurer of the Prov . Grand Chapter N . and E . Yorkshire . He was one of the founders of the Denison Lodge , No . 1248 , Scarborough , in 1868 , and has remained ever since a subscribing member . He was also a founder , in 1878 , of the Leopold Lodge , No . 17 60 , Scarborough , the members holding the valuable assistance he then afforded them in
such high estimation , that they elected him , in conjunction with H . R . H . the late Duke of Albany , to an honorary membership . He is also a subscribing member of the Westminster and Keystone Lodge , No . 10 , having joined in 1872 , and of the Apollo University Lodge , Oxford , and is a Vice-President of and has served the office of Steward for the various Masonic Charitable Institutions on eight different occasions .
On Monday , the 4 th inst ., he was chosen President of the Board of Stewards for the Festival , in June , of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . He was elected Grand Treasurer by a large majority of votes at the Quarterly Communication in March . As a Mark Master Mason , he was advanced in the Minerva Lodge of M . M . M ., No . 12 . Hullin 1866 . In the followinp- year he was elected first S . W . of
, the Star-in-the-East Lodge , No . 95 , Scarborough , of which he was a founder ; in 1867 was elected and installed W . M . of the same lodge ; was appointed G . M . O . of Grand Mark Lodge in 1869 , and in 1881 had the honour of being selected as the first P . G . M . M . M . of the newly-constituted Province of North and East Yorkshire , the brethren having so high an opinion of his abilitiesthat they have just re-elected him to the same honourable position .
, In this capacity he presided at the annual Festival of the Mark Benevolent Fund in July , 1884 . As a Templar , Bro . Woodall is P . E . C . of the Geoffrey de Bouillon Preceptory , Scarborough , No . 91 , Past Grand Standard Bearer ( Beauceant ) of the National Great Priory ; an honorary member of the Mary Commandery , No . 36 , Philadel p hia ; of the Apollo Commandery » No . 1 , Chicago , United States of America ; and of the Ancient Ebor Pre-0
ceptory , No . 101 , York . He is a member of the 32 of the A . and A . Scottish Rite , and Past M . W . S . of the Hilda Chapter , Rose Croix , Whitby ( now transferred to York ); an Intendant General of Division , unattached , in the Degree of the Red Cross of Rome and Constantine , Past Pr ° ' Treasurer Yorkshire College of Rosicrucians , a member of the Royal Order of Scotland , and honorary member of several Craft and Mark lodges .