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East Lancashire And Its Provincial Grand Master.
EAST LANCASHIRE AND ITS PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER .
Every now and then meetings are held in different parts of the country which testify unmistakably to the kindly relations which almost invariably exist between the rulers of our several Provinces and the lodges and brethren they preside over . These
meetings are held in the ordinary course of Masonic business , but some good or evil fortune has befallen the Grand Master of one of our Provinces , or some particular anniversary in his personal or Masonic career has just been , or is on the eve
of being , celebrated , and those who have been associated with him in Masonry for a longer or shorter period of time turn the regular meeting to account—as though it had been an opportunity arranged for the purpose—by expressing towards him , or
reiterating the expression of their goodwill . Thus it was that a recent meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire was taken advantage of by the brethren of that Province , and made the occasion for exhibiting towards their Provincial
Grand Master their sincere sympathy with him in his illness , and their determination to perpetuate his fame as a ruler by founding a Tew Perpetual Presentation to the Male Fund of the Benevolent Institution . Then the other day at the meeting of the
Provincial Grand Lodge of Cornwall a congratulatory address was presented to the Earl of MOUNT EDGCUMBE , P . G . M ., on his appointment as Deputy Grand Master of England , while at the Boys' School Festival in June last our West Lancashire brethren
presented their chief , the Earl of LATHOM , with a suit of Grand Lodge clothing and a chain qf office as Pro Grand Master , to still further mark the respect in which they held him , and the pleasure his advancement to the more exalted office afforded them .
Other ordinary meetings have also been usefully made available at other times and in other Provinces , the latest having taken place at Manchester about three weeks since , when the brethren of East Lancashire took the opportunity then offered by their
annual meeting to exhibit the respect and esteem they bear to Bro . Colonel LE GENDRE N . STARKIE , by presenting him with some silver plate and an address on the completion of his 2 ist year of office as their Provincial Grand Master . The occasion was well
worthy of commemoration . The Province of East Lancashire is one of the strongest and most influential under the Grand Lodge of this country , and the duties and responsibilities which devolve on him who presides over it are by no means light . But those duties have
been conscientiously discharged , and those responsibilites as conscientiously borne by Bro . Col . STARKIE during the whole of his career as Provincial Grand Master , while his administration has been so successful that whereas in 18 70 the Province
comprised only some 74 lodges and about 3400 subscribing members , there are now 103 lodges , and 4600 subscribing members . Again , in the same interval of time the Province has contributed upwards of - £ 23 , 500 to our three Central Masonic Institutions ,
and raised nearl y £ 17 , 000 in support of its own local Educational and Benevolent Institution , £ 10 , 000 of the latter sum having from time to time been invested as capital . These are facts on which our East Lancashire brethren are to be
congratulated , which it is natural they should take a pride in recounting , and which they are unquestionably just in attributing in great measure to the prosperity they have enjoyed under the beneficent rule of Bro . STAKKIE . Thus the additional tribute
of respect they paid him a short while since is the outward and visible sign of the love they bear him , and is as honourable to them who have paid it as to him who has received it . Nor will the influence which such an event must
exercise be otherwise than beneficial to Freemasonry generally . More recently appointed Provincial Grand Masters and Provinces of lesser influence and strength will strive to emulate , the example set them b y Bro , Col . STARKIE and East Lancashire
East Lancashire And Its Provincial Grand Master.
respectively , by first of all establishing and then strengthening and confirming those mutual feelings of respect and goodwill which now and always have existed between the ruler and the Province we have specified . For ourselves , we cordially re-echo the earnest prayer of our East Lancashire brethren that Bro .
Col . STARKIE " may be blessed by the Great Architect of the Universe with health and strength for many years to come " to occupy the position he has filled so worthil y for so many years . «
"The Royal Alpha" Lodge.
"THE ROYAL ALPHA" LODGE .
Gur esteemed Grand Secretary has written an excellent " History of the Royal Alpha Lodge , No . 16 , London , " and , as only a very limited edition has been printed , I have carefully noted certain facts in this very interesting souvenir of a most distinguished lodge , so that they may be generally known to
those brethren who have not the opportunity else to study them . Colonel Clerke begins the History by stating that " the Royal Alpha Lodge " traces its descent from no less than five old lodges , which have at different periods-amalgamated with each other , and are now represented by No . 16 , so that its past has been most eventful in that respect , as well as in many others .
Naturally the members through all these changes have clung to the old warrant or number acquired by the senior of the five , which was started in the year 1722 , and in 1729 , when No . 9 assembled at the " One Tun , " in Noble-street , London . Bro . John Lane tells me he has traced this lodge back to 1725 , when
it met at the "Fountain Tavern , in the Strand , " which is an earlier place of meeting than has hitherto been known . Bro . John Kirk was a member of the lodge in 1725 , and is enrolled as the sixth in the MS . list of that year , and also so appears in another of the year 1731 , so that apparently he was the living link between those years . *
No name is registered until 1768 , when it was called the "Ionic , " but even so early as 1729 the lodge " was one of the first five to contribute to the Fund of Charity , " and so deserves to be remembered . It would be interesting to know the names of the remaining four that virtually started that most useful Fund .
The next lodge in point of age was formed as No . 7 6 , in the year 1730 , in Golden-square neighbourhood , removing to Waltham Abbey , Herts , in 1779 , when it was called "Well Disposed , " but was practically dormant , so Colonel Clerke says , from 1805 . In 1014 , it was removed to Kensington Palace , by *
order of H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex , M . W . G . M ., and became His Royal Highness ' s private lodge , its name being changed to the " Alpha . " The membership from that date , consisting " of distinguished Masons and others selected , and in almost every case , proposed by himself . "
The third lodge was constituted in 1740 as No . 18 3 , also in the Metropolis , and known as the " Prudence" from 1774 . The fourth , of A . D . 177 6 , hailed from St . James ' s-square as No . 49 a ,
and was called " St . Peter . " It united with the third in 1 793 , and henceforth was named " Prudence and Peter , " which certainly was a rather strange title . In 1800 this lodge joined the first of the series , and took at their union the more Masonic
designation of " Ionic and Prudence , " No . 8 ; the higher position on the roll having been attained by No . 9 at the new numeration in 1740 . "This combined body united vvith the 'Alpha , ' when No . 43 in the year 1823 , taking the name of the latter , but retaining
its own seniority and number—16 " ; and in 1824 , the fifth lodge completed the final amalgamation , it having been warranted in 1764 , known as the " Royal" from 176 7 ('' having just previousl y initiated two Royal brothers—H . R . H . William Henry , Duke of Gloucester , and H . R . H . Henry Frederick , Duke of Cumberland , afterwards Grand Master , " ) and was a " Red Apron Lodge . " From the year 1624 , the lodge of so many unions , has been known as the " Royal Alpha , " being a title obtained from th
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East Lancashire And Its Provincial Grand Master.
EAST LANCASHIRE AND ITS PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER .
Every now and then meetings are held in different parts of the country which testify unmistakably to the kindly relations which almost invariably exist between the rulers of our several Provinces and the lodges and brethren they preside over . These
meetings are held in the ordinary course of Masonic business , but some good or evil fortune has befallen the Grand Master of one of our Provinces , or some particular anniversary in his personal or Masonic career has just been , or is on the eve
of being , celebrated , and those who have been associated with him in Masonry for a longer or shorter period of time turn the regular meeting to account—as though it had been an opportunity arranged for the purpose—by expressing towards him , or
reiterating the expression of their goodwill . Thus it was that a recent meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire was taken advantage of by the brethren of that Province , and made the occasion for exhibiting towards their Provincial
Grand Master their sincere sympathy with him in his illness , and their determination to perpetuate his fame as a ruler by founding a Tew Perpetual Presentation to the Male Fund of the Benevolent Institution . Then the other day at the meeting of the
Provincial Grand Lodge of Cornwall a congratulatory address was presented to the Earl of MOUNT EDGCUMBE , P . G . M ., on his appointment as Deputy Grand Master of England , while at the Boys' School Festival in June last our West Lancashire brethren
presented their chief , the Earl of LATHOM , with a suit of Grand Lodge clothing and a chain qf office as Pro Grand Master , to still further mark the respect in which they held him , and the pleasure his advancement to the more exalted office afforded them .
Other ordinary meetings have also been usefully made available at other times and in other Provinces , the latest having taken place at Manchester about three weeks since , when the brethren of East Lancashire took the opportunity then offered by their
annual meeting to exhibit the respect and esteem they bear to Bro . Colonel LE GENDRE N . STARKIE , by presenting him with some silver plate and an address on the completion of his 2 ist year of office as their Provincial Grand Master . The occasion was well
worthy of commemoration . The Province of East Lancashire is one of the strongest and most influential under the Grand Lodge of this country , and the duties and responsibilities which devolve on him who presides over it are by no means light . But those duties have
been conscientiously discharged , and those responsibilites as conscientiously borne by Bro . Col . STARKIE during the whole of his career as Provincial Grand Master , while his administration has been so successful that whereas in 18 70 the Province
comprised only some 74 lodges and about 3400 subscribing members , there are now 103 lodges , and 4600 subscribing members . Again , in the same interval of time the Province has contributed upwards of - £ 23 , 500 to our three Central Masonic Institutions ,
and raised nearl y £ 17 , 000 in support of its own local Educational and Benevolent Institution , £ 10 , 000 of the latter sum having from time to time been invested as capital . These are facts on which our East Lancashire brethren are to be
congratulated , which it is natural they should take a pride in recounting , and which they are unquestionably just in attributing in great measure to the prosperity they have enjoyed under the beneficent rule of Bro . STAKKIE . Thus the additional tribute
of respect they paid him a short while since is the outward and visible sign of the love they bear him , and is as honourable to them who have paid it as to him who has received it . Nor will the influence which such an event must
exercise be otherwise than beneficial to Freemasonry generally . More recently appointed Provincial Grand Masters and Provinces of lesser influence and strength will strive to emulate , the example set them b y Bro , Col . STARKIE and East Lancashire
East Lancashire And Its Provincial Grand Master.
respectively , by first of all establishing and then strengthening and confirming those mutual feelings of respect and goodwill which now and always have existed between the ruler and the Province we have specified . For ourselves , we cordially re-echo the earnest prayer of our East Lancashire brethren that Bro .
Col . STARKIE " may be blessed by the Great Architect of the Universe with health and strength for many years to come " to occupy the position he has filled so worthil y for so many years . «
"The Royal Alpha" Lodge.
"THE ROYAL ALPHA" LODGE .
Gur esteemed Grand Secretary has written an excellent " History of the Royal Alpha Lodge , No . 16 , London , " and , as only a very limited edition has been printed , I have carefully noted certain facts in this very interesting souvenir of a most distinguished lodge , so that they may be generally known to
those brethren who have not the opportunity else to study them . Colonel Clerke begins the History by stating that " the Royal Alpha Lodge " traces its descent from no less than five old lodges , which have at different periods-amalgamated with each other , and are now represented by No . 16 , so that its past has been most eventful in that respect , as well as in many others .
Naturally the members through all these changes have clung to the old warrant or number acquired by the senior of the five , which was started in the year 1722 , and in 1729 , when No . 9 assembled at the " One Tun , " in Noble-street , London . Bro . John Lane tells me he has traced this lodge back to 1725 , when
it met at the "Fountain Tavern , in the Strand , " which is an earlier place of meeting than has hitherto been known . Bro . John Kirk was a member of the lodge in 1725 , and is enrolled as the sixth in the MS . list of that year , and also so appears in another of the year 1731 , so that apparently he was the living link between those years . *
No name is registered until 1768 , when it was called the "Ionic , " but even so early as 1729 the lodge " was one of the first five to contribute to the Fund of Charity , " and so deserves to be remembered . It would be interesting to know the names of the remaining four that virtually started that most useful Fund .
The next lodge in point of age was formed as No . 7 6 , in the year 1730 , in Golden-square neighbourhood , removing to Waltham Abbey , Herts , in 1779 , when it was called "Well Disposed , " but was practically dormant , so Colonel Clerke says , from 1805 . In 1014 , it was removed to Kensington Palace , by *
order of H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex , M . W . G . M ., and became His Royal Highness ' s private lodge , its name being changed to the " Alpha . " The membership from that date , consisting " of distinguished Masons and others selected , and in almost every case , proposed by himself . "
The third lodge was constituted in 1740 as No . 18 3 , also in the Metropolis , and known as the " Prudence" from 1774 . The fourth , of A . D . 177 6 , hailed from St . James ' s-square as No . 49 a ,
and was called " St . Peter . " It united with the third in 1 793 , and henceforth was named " Prudence and Peter , " which certainly was a rather strange title . In 1800 this lodge joined the first of the series , and took at their union the more Masonic
designation of " Ionic and Prudence , " No . 8 ; the higher position on the roll having been attained by No . 9 at the new numeration in 1740 . "This combined body united vvith the 'Alpha , ' when No . 43 in the year 1823 , taking the name of the latter , but retaining
its own seniority and number—16 " ; and in 1824 , the fifth lodge completed the final amalgamation , it having been warranted in 1764 , known as the " Royal" from 176 7 ('' having just previousl y initiated two Royal brothers—H . R . H . William Henry , Duke of Gloucester , and H . R . H . Henry Frederick , Duke of Cumberland , afterwards Grand Master , " ) and was a " Red Apron Lodge . " From the year 1624 , the lodge of so many unions , has been known as the " Royal Alpha , " being a title obtained from th