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The Prince of WALES , in reply , thanked the brethren for the hearty reception they had given him , and such as he always met with in that hall . He hoped he might be spared to meet them on many future occasions , and he only regretted he could not remain longer with them , having an engagement to fulfil in the East end of London . ( Loud cheers . ) He hoped they would prolong the sitting under Lord Kintore ' s presidency , and in conclusion

he heartily thanked them for their kind reception , and assured them of the great p leasure which the proceedings of the afternoon had afforded him . ( Loud cheers . ) The Duke of CONNAUGHT said , that as Grand Senior Warden , his first duty was toobey the command of the Grand Master , who desired him to respond also . ( Cheers . ) He expressed his high appreciation of the honour that had been done him that day , and was excessively grateful to the Grand Master for

having appointed him as Grand Senior Warden , and ielt pleased he should have thought himself worthy of receiving one of the first appointments at his disposal . ( Cheers . ) So far as he had the power he should carry out the duties of his office to the best of his ability , and he hoped that circumstances over which he had no control would not take him out of the country

and prevent him from discharging the duties during his year of office . ( Cheers . ) He hoped to be able to show by his regular atendance the interest he took in the duties of the high office which he had been called upon to hold , and in conclusion , he once more thanked the brethren for their kind and hearty reception . ( Loud cheers . )

Other toasts followed , including "The Health of the Pro Grand Master , Lord Kintore , " proposed by Lord Egerton of Tatton , and responded to by Lord Kintore ; " The General Board , " for whom the Past Grand Master , Bro . the Rev . Canon Portal replied , and others . A luncheon was also provided at the Freemasons' Tavern , but the attendance was not large .

We have much pleasure in presenting the series of brief memoirs of the newly-appointed officers of the Mark Grand Lodge , as many portraits of them as we have been able to obtain being published as a supplement .

GRAND SENIOR WARDEN . H . R . H . THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT , K . G ., & c , & c , was initiated into Freemasonry in the Prince of Wales Lodge , No . 259 , in the year 1 S 74 , and having had conferred upon him the Degree of M . M . the evening before the installation of his brother , the Prince of Wales , as M . W . G . Master , on the 25 th April , 1875 , had the honour of being present at that grand ceremonial

and the splendid banquet which followed , as the youngest Master Mason in England . Since then he has filled the chair of W . M . in more than one lodge , the most conspicuous case being that of the Royal Alpha Lodge , No , 16 , of which he was installed Master a few years since . In 1877 he was appointed G . S . Warden of England , his brother , the late Duke of Albany , being at the same time appointed to fill the chair of G . J . W . In 1878 his Royal Highness presided at the Soth Anniversary Festival of the Boys' School ,

and qualified as a Vice-President 01 that Institution . He is also a Royal Arch Mason , Great Prior of the Order of Knights Templar in Ireland , and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order ; an honorary member of the Supreme Council , 33 ° , of the Ancient and Accepted Rite , England ; and honorary member of the Grand Lodge of Scotland . The Duke was advanced to the Mark Degree under the Irish Constitutions , and on the ist inst . was appointed and invested with the insignia of office as G . S . Warden in the Mark Grand Lodge of England and Wales , & c , & c .

GRAND JUNIOR WARDEN . Bro . Lord SALTOUN , who has been invested as Grand Junior Warden of the Mark Grand Lodge for the current year , has won most of his fame as a member of our Society under the Scottish Constitutions , and it was in Scotland that he obtained his first insight into the Mark system .

GRAND MASTER OVERSEER . Bro . Lieut .-Col . ADDISON POTTER , C . B ., G . M . O ., has splayed a conspicuous part in Masonry in the Province of Northumberland . He is a Past Master of the Northumberland Lodge , No . 685 , N ewcastle-on-Tyne , and the Tyne Lodge , No . 991 , Willington Quay , and a P . Z . of the chapters severally attached to those lodges . He is Craft Prov . G . S . W . of Northumberland and its Prov . Grand Superintendent in Royal Arch Masonry . He was

advanced to the Mark in 1871 m the Northumberland and Berwick Lodge , and is founder and present W . M . of the Tristram Lodge , No . 346 , Newcastle-on-Tyne . He is a Life Governor of all our Institutions and has once served as Festival Steward for each of them . He is likewise a man of considerable influence in his county , being on the Commission of the Peace for Northumberland and Newcastle , and a member of the Town Council as well as Mayor for two years in succession of the latter .

GRAND SENIOR OVERSEER . BRO . GEORGE GALLOWAY , J . P ., of Ashton-upon-Ribble , near Preston , Lancashire , who is G . S . Overseer , has been a subscribing member of our Society for 24 years , and has held office in the various branches of Masonry with which he is associated with . He is a P . M . of Charity Lodge ( Craft ) , No . 350 , Stoneclough , near Manchester , and P . Z . of the Meribah Chapter

attached to it , as well as P . P . G . S . D . East Lancashire . In the Mark Degree , to which he was advanced in the year 1 S 63 , he was W . M . of the St . John ' s Lodge , T . I ., Bolton , in 1 S 66 , and having held successively the offices of Prov . G . Treasurer and Prov . G . J . W ., is now Prov . G . S . W . of the Mark Province of Lancashire . He is likewise a P . E . C . of the St . John ' s

Preceptory , K . T ., Todmorden , and Treasurer of the Prince of Peace Preceptory , Preston , a memi er of the Allied Degrees , and has taken the 30 in the Ancient and Accepted Rite . He is a Life Governor of , and has been twice Steward for , the Boys'School , and has generally interested himself in everything that was likely to conduce to the welfare of the Order .

GRAND JUNIOR OVERSEER . Bro . GEORGE KENNING , proprietor of the Freemason , was advanced to the Mark Degree in the Thistle Lodge , No . 8 , in 1 S 64 , and filled the office of W . M . in the St . Mark ' s Lodge , No . 1 , in 1873 .

GRAND CHAPLAINS . Bro . the Rev . T . CARTWRIGHT SMYTH , D . D ., LL . D ., one of the newlyappointed Grand Chaplains , has been a Freemason for upwards of 40 years , having been initiated , passed , and raised in the Royal lstc of Man Lodge , No . 338 , on the roll of Scotland , but now apparently defunct , in 1 843 . Having shortly afterwards taken Holy Orders , and migrated to Newcastleon-Tyne , he joined the Northern Counties Lod ge , No . 406—then No . 586

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—in 1 S 44 , and the year following was exalted to the R . A . in the De Sussex Chapter , attached thereto . In 1847 he was installed K . T . in the Kent Encampment and perfected Rose Croix , 1 S , in the A . and A . Rite . Having in the meantime joined the De Loraine Lodge , No . 541—then No . 793—he was appointed S . W . in 184 S-9 , and about the same time was invested Prov . G . Chaplain of Northumberland . Havine received a Ministerial

,-innoinrment in India , he sailed for that country and his Masonic merits received almost instant recognition by his appointment to the D . G . Chaplaincy of Bengal . In 1852-3 he served as W . M . of the Star of Hope Lodge , then No . 761 , Agra , being in the course of the same year advanced to the Mark Degree , and made an Excellent and Super-Excellent Mason . He is also a founder and was twice W . M . —in 18 54-5 and 1855-6

—of the Dalhousie Lodge , then No . 922 , Mussoorie , and founder and first M . E . & . of the chapter attached to it . Bro . Smyth was in India during the Mutiny , being senior Government Chaplain at Meerut , and greatly distinguished himself by his coolness and courage , and the help he was ever ready to administer to those in need of his spiritual or temporal consolation , and after a long sojourn at Singapore , where he was appointed D . D . G . M . of the Eastern Archipelago , he returned to the Old Country in 1 S 67 , and took ur >

his residence near Leeds , where he holds the living of St . Chad ' s , Far Headingley , and has since played a conspicuous part in Masonry as the principal officer in Craft and Mark Lodges , Arch Chapters , K . T . Preceptories , and as Prov . Grand Chaplain of West Yorkshire . In fact , to enumerate the whole of his services would require more space than is at our command , and those who would know more of them should read his memoir by Bro . W . Watson , P . M ., P . Z ., of Leeds ( Leeds : McCorquodaleand Co ., Limited , 1885 ) , in which they will find the fullest particulars of his career .

Bro . the Rev . THOMAS COCHRANE , M . A ., has been nearly thirty years a member of the Society , having been initiated in tne Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , Oxford , in the year 1857 . Since then his career has been a remarkably successful one in all the branches of Masonry . Thus , in the Craft he is a P . M . of the Westminster and Keystone Lodge , No . 10 , the Hope and Unity Lodge , No . 214 , Brentwood , and the Unity , No . 567 ,

Warwick , a Past Prov . G . Chaplain of Oxfordshire , and Past Prov . G . S . Warden of Essex , and in 1882 was appointed to be one of the Grand Chaplains of the United Grand Lodge of England . In the Royal Arch Degree to which he was exalted at Oxford in 1859 , he is a P . Z . of Westminster and Keystone Chapter , No . io , and Hope and Unity Chapter , No . 214 , Brentwood , and in 1882 was appointed ist G . Std . Br . in the Supreme Grand Chapter . He

was advanced to the Mark Degree in the Shakespeare Lodge , No . 40 , Warwick , in 1865 , and having ten years later joined the Carnarvon Mark Lodge , No . 7 , was not long afterwards appointed I . G ., and is now its S . W ., Bro . General Brownrigg being its J . W . Here , too , he has won Provincial honours , having been appointed Prov . G . Chap , for Middx . and Surrey , while at the same time he has entered himself as an annual subscriber to the

Educational and Annuity Branches of the Mark Benevolent Funxl . In Masonic Knight Templary Bro . Cochrane served as E . C . of the Cccur de Lion Encampment at Oxford in 1877 , and had the honour of installing the late Duke of Albany as his successor the year following , his services being recognised by his appointment as Grand Prelate of the Great Priory of England and Wales . He is also a Rose Croix Mason , having been perfected at Warwick in 1865 , and being the present Prelate of the Canterbury Croix at the Masonic

Chapter Rose , meeting Hall , Golden-square . He has qualified as a Life Governor of our several Charities , and has served as Festival Steward twice for the Boys' School , once for the Girls' School , and once for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . It is upon a brother who has achieved all these successes that the office of Grand Chaplain of the Mark Grand Lodge has been conferred , and we are satisfied the choice of so worthy a brother for so distinguished a position will be universally endorsed .

GRAND SENIOR DEACONS . Bro . PROFESSOR \ V . KALLEY MILLER , late Fellow of St . Peter ' s College , Cambridge , who has been appointed one of the Grand Senior Deacons , was initiated in the Isaac Newton University Lodge , No . 859 , Cambridge , and rose in time to be its W . Master . It was at CamliriHo-P '

too , that he was exalted to the R . A ., advanced to the Mark , perfected Rose Croix , 18 , in the A . and A . Rite , installed K . T ., & c ; and here he rose ultimately to the position of Presiding Officer of each of the different Masonic Bodies , in which he obtained his earlier distinctions . When he migrated to Greenwich he carried with him his enthusiasm for Freemasonry , and became founder and was W . M . during the first two years of the Roval

Naval College Lodge , No . 1593 , which was warranted in 18 75 , was founder and first M . E . Z . of the Trafalgar Chapter R . A ., attached thereto , and founder and first W . M . of the Royal Naval College Mark Lodge , No . 294 He is also a Past Prov . G . Warden ( Craft ) for Cambridgeshire , and a Past Prov . G . Warden ( Mark ) for Kent , and has taken the 31 in the A . and A . Rite . As for the Charities , he has shown how great is the interest he takes

in their welfare and how desirous he is of serving their interest by presenting to each of the three , Craft , Arch , and Mark , bodies at Greenwich , with which his labours as a Mason will be always identified , a Governorship in perpetuity to one of our Institutions . So fair a record merits the great honour which has just been conferred on Bro . Professor Miller by H R H the G . Master of the Mark Grand Lodge .

Bro . NATHANIEL TRACY , the other G . S . Deacon , is well known in Masonic circles by his valuable services to the Province of Suffolk in his triple capacity of Prov . G . Secretary ( Craft ) , Prov . G . Scribe E . ( Royal Arch ) and Prov . G . Secretary of East Anglia ( Mark ) , of which Suffolk is a part It is not necessary , therefore , that we should do more than give an outline of the different Degrees he has taken , and the different offices of distinction

to which he has been appointed , and in which he has invariably acquitted himself-well . He was initiated in the lodge of Perfect Friendship No 376 —then No . 522—in January , 1851 , and has twice filled the chair o ' f VV . M , namely , in 1855 and 1 S 75 . I" 1857 he was invested Prov . G . J . Warden of Suffolk , and in 1883 was honoured b y the late Lord Waveney with the appointment of Prov . G . Secretary in succession to the late

Bro . Lucia . He was exalted in the Royal Sussex Chapter , No . 376 , in March , 1871 , was elected M . E . Z . in 1875 , and held the post of Scribe E . from 1875 to 1879 . In 1883 he received the appointment of Prov . Grand Scribe E . Suffolk , holding it in conjunction with that of Prov . Grand Secretary . He was advanced in the Freeman Mark Lodge , No . 105 , Bury St . Edmunds , in 1878 , and the year following joined the Albert Victor , No . 70 , Ipswich , In 1880 he was installed its W . M ., and on