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Pomfret , Provincial Grand Alaster Northamptonshire ; Benjamin AVyatt , Sir George Nayler ( Garter ) , G . D . of C . ; AVilliam H . AVhite , Grand Secretary ; John Dent , ALP ., Provincial Grand Alaster Worcestcrshire , Grand Treasurer ; Simon AIcGillivray , and AVilliam AVoods . In 1814 there were added to tho roll Bro . the Hon AYashington Shirley —a member of the Ferrers family—Provincial Grand Alaster

Warwickshire ; Sir Fred . G . Fowke , Bart , ALP ., who was appointed S . G . AV . in 1821 , and Provineial Grand Alaster of Leicestershire in 1851 ; and Henry Swain , ALP . Only two were elected members in 1815 , of whom Bro . the Hon . E . AL Onslow , an ancestor of thc present Earl Onslow , P . S . G . W . was one . In 1816 Bro . Lord Dundas , Deputy Grand Alaster from 1813 to 1820 , became a member , and in 1817 Bro .

AVilliam Linley , S . G . D . in 1824 . In 1818 there was an influx of no less than 16 new members , among them being several persons of distinction either in the Craffc or socially . Bro . T . Chapman , Asst , G . D . . of C . from 1841 to 1858 , and Bro . AV . D . Cummins , G . S . B . in 1818 , were among this group . So , too , was Bro . John George Lambton , ALP ., some time Ambassador to the Court of

Russia , Lord Privy Seal , and Governor-General of British North America , who was successively created for his political and di plomatic services , Baron Durham ( 1828 ) , and Alscount Lambton and Earl of Durham in 1833 . Bro . Lambton was one of the most jiromineiit Alasons of his day , and , besides being Provincial Grand Alaster of Durham from 1818 till his death in 1840 , was Deputy Grand AIaster

of England during the years 1834-5 and Pro Grand Alaster , 1839-40 . Bro . Louis Hayes Petit , ALP ., J . G . AV . in 1818 , and one of the most generous supporters of our Boys' and Girls' Schools , was admitted to membership of Antiquity in the same year , and so were Bros . Sir H . Verelst Darell , Bart ., an ancestor of our present Bro . Sir Lionel E . Darell , Bart ., Bro . the Hon . Henry G . Bennett , second

son ofthe fourth Earl of Tankervillc , and Provincial Grand AIaster of Shroj-ishire 1819-43 , and Sir Francis Ala wbcrt . Among the 1819 reeruits were Bro . Joseph James Aloore , J . G . D . in 1825 : Bro . Col . Thomas Wildman—at least , hc was not Colonel at the time—who was Provincial Grand Alaster of Nottinghamshire from 1823 to 1860 , an old Peninsular veteran , who was one of thc most genial and popular of our

Provincial rulers , and again and again received testimony of the love and respect in which he was held b y the brethren under his obedience ; Bro . Sir AV . Claude de Cresjiigny , Bart ., Provincial Grand Alaster of Hants in 1810 ; and Bro . the Rev . L . H . D . Cokbnrn , who was a Grand Chajilain from 1817 to 1826 . During the next two years many names were added to the roll , but only of

two of the members can I find anything specially recorded . These were Bro . Henry Robert Lewis , who was President of the Board of General Purposes 1827-8 , and Bro . Colonel 0 . K . Kemeys Tynte , who was J . G . W . of England in 1830 , Provincial Grand Alaster of Somersetshire 1820—1860 , and Grand Alaster of the Order of the Temjile from shortly after the death of the Duke

of Sussex , in 1843 , till Jus death , in 1860 . The most distinguished recruit in thc year 1822 was Bro . Richard Percival , jun ., who was initiated in the lodge on the 23 rd January . In 1827 , when Deput y AIaster , he wns one of the brelhren apjiointcd by the Duke of Sussex as a Lodge or Board of Installed Masters , for the purpose of determining the ceremony of installation . A few months after this he was ajipoiiited S . G . AA " . of England , and afterwards , from 1837 to

1851 , was its Grand Treasurer . The only other member of note belonging to this year apjiears to have been Bro . Sir Alex . Johnstone , Provincial Grand Alaster of Ceylon . In 1823 Bro . Joseph Aloore , M . D ., S . G . D . in 1831 , was admitted , and the following year Col . Hugh Baillic , S . G . AV . in 1826 , and Provincial Grand Master from 1820 to 1845 , ns well as Bro . Col . Hob . Torrens and Bro . T . F . Savory , S . G . D . in 1825 .

A early a dozen members were elected in 1825 , and of these a fair ju-ojiortion held high ofiice in the Craft subsequently . Bro . Sir Hedworth AVilliamson , Bart ., who in the course of his career was ALP . for fhe Northern Division of Durham , and High Sheriff of the county , was appointed J . G . W . in the very year he joined Antiquity , and was Provincial Grand AIaster of Durham from 1841 to 1845 ,

his son—the jiresent Sir Hedworth AVilliamson—having held the same office since 1885 . Bro . J . Savile Lumley , afterwards Earl of Scarborough , was S . G . AV . in 1836 , in which year he assumed , by royal licence , the additional and jirincijial surname of Savile . He was Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire , and died unmarried in 1856 . The third name is that of Bro . Benjamin

Bond Cabbell , who was initiated in the lodge , and who is still remembered by Alasons and non-Alasons as one of the greatest benefactors of our various Charitable Institntions . The year following his initiation he was made G . S . B . of England , and two years later its Junior Grand AVarden . In 1839 he was appointed President of the Board of General Purposes , and from 1854 till his

death , in 1874 , he was Provincial Grand Alaster of Norfolk . He was a munificent contributor to our three Charities , and in the ease of our two Schools rendered them important services in the capacity of Treasurer , having held that office in the case of the Givte' School from 1839 to I 860 , when he resigned from advanced age and impaired health , and in that of the Boys' School from 1846 to 1869 . He was also a Trustee of both Institutions . It was Bro . Cabbell , also , who ,

fit a sjiecial meeting of the House Committee , on the 5 th February , 1830 , jn-esenfed each of fhe children of the Girls' School and Airs . Crook , Alatron , Aliss Buck , Dejiuty Alatron , and Aliss Jarwood with a medal commemorative of the Jubilee Festival , held under the jiresidciu-y of Bv » . Lord Worsley , ALP ., afterwards Earl of Yarborough , ( he year jircvious , ( hose of the three officials being of gold . The two remaining recruits of 1825 were Bros . Thomas Aloore , who had

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been initiated in the Prince of AVales Lodge in 1812 , and was a P . AI . of the Castle Lodge of Harmony , now No . 26 . He was one of the Board of Installed Alasters appointed by the Sussex in 1827 , and J . G . D . the same year . From 1826 to 1841 he was Treasurer to the AIasonic Institution for Boys , and it was mainly owing to his careful and intelligent administration of its affairs , that the funds , whicii

had fallen into a woeful condition jirior to his election to office , were restored to an equilibrium and the funded property increased ; while the number of pupils , which had been enlarged to 70 in 1818 and reduced to 43 in 1826 , was again returned at 70 the year following his resignation of the Treasurership . Tho last on the roll for 1825 is Bro . John Lawrie , who was awarded the collar of G . S . B . in 1832 .

Seven were added to the strength of the lodge iii 1826 , but the only name that is likely to attract special notice is that of Bro . Cajjt . F . Marryatfc , R . N ., who was initiated under the wing of Antiquity . I cannot say hc achieved anything of a rejratation as a brother , but his namo will live as long as there is an English language to be spoken and written , as the author of those splendid sea novels ,

"Peter Simple , " "Percival Keen , " " Midshipman Easy , " "Jacob Faithful , " " Newton Foster , " & c , & c , & c . I have no doubt you must remember the incident in " Percival Keen , " in which the scapegrace hero jinlms off certain signs on an unfortunate middy of the name of Green as the veritable signs of Freemasonry . I know I have often roared with laughter over the scene , and even to this day-1 enjoy it almost as much as when I first read ifc as a youngster .

Among the 14 who joined or re-joined or were initiated m the lodge in 1 S 27 woro Bro . Charles Tennyson , who , later on , assumed the name of D'Eynconrt , Prov . Grand AIaster of Lincolnshire from 1827 to 1849 ; Bro . John Henderson , Senior Grand Deacon in 1833 , and President of the Board of General Purposes from 1836 to 1838 ; Henry Ralph Willett , Junior Grand AVarden in 1823 , President of

the Board of General Purposes in 1825-6 ; and Viscount AVeymouth , afterwards Alarquis of Bath , father of the present peer , and of Bro . Lord Henry F . Thynne , ALP ., S . G . W . of England in 1874 and Grand Superintendent of Wiltshire since 1875 . Bro . Archibald Keightley , S . G . D . in 1835 , joined in 1828 , and then , after an interval of a few years , during which the newly-enrolled "Antiquities " were neither

numerous nor jiartieularly prominent , we come to the familiar name oi' Bro . Richard AV . Jennings , who was admitted in 1833 , and was successivel y A . G . D . of C . from 1837 to 1841 and G . D . of C . from the , latter year to 1860 and J . G . AV . 1864 . In 1834 Bro . AAllliam Stuart , M . P ., who was initiated in the AYatford Lodge , then known as the Bamborough , in 1832 , and served the ofiice of S . G . W . the year following ,

was accejited asajoming member . He subsequently occupied the chair , and on the retirement of the Alarquis of Salisbury , for whom he had acted as Deputy , for all his Alasonic offices , was appointed Provincial Grand AIaster and Grand Superintendent of Hertfordshire . These offices he held till 1873 , when increasing years compelled his retirement . Bro . Stuart was also Deputy Grand AIaster of the

Order of the Temple under Col . C . K . Kemeys Tynte , and on the latter ' s death , in 1860 , was elected to the vacant post of Grand AIaster . About the same time , liro . Lord Henry J . Sjicncer Churchill joined . He was J . G . AV . in 1831 , S . G . AV . in 1832 , was ajipoiiited Deputy Grand Alaster in succession to the Earl of Durham in 1835 , and was Provincial Grand AIaster of Oxfordshire from 1837

to 1840 . Bros . Granville E . L . Berkeley , and J . C . Fourdrinier were also accejited towards the close of the same year . In 1837 , Bro . Augustus Union Thiselton , who was Secretary of the Boys' School from 1826 to 1861 , and retired from that office on a well-earned pension in the latter year , was elected a joining member , and the year following Bro . Henry A . Hoare , S . G . AV . in 1846 , became a member .

lhe only recruit during the year 1839 was the Earl of Zetland , who was Deputy ' Grand Alaster 1839-40 , Pro Grand AIaster from 1841 to 1843 , and ( irand Alaster , in succession to the Duke of Sussex , from 1843 till 1870 . On his lordshi p ' s retirement from the last-named office , a fund of £ 3000 was raised in commemoration of his great services as Grand Alaster daring a jirolongcd period of 26 years , while the

lodges which are named after him bear equall y eloquent testimony to the virtues of this distinguished brother , in whose family the love of Alasonry appears to be hereditary . In 1840 , Bro . AVilliam Harrison , Q . C , who was well advanced towards three score and ten when lie was initiated in the Salisbury Lodge—then No . 630 , meeting at Waltham Cross—was elected as a joining member . He was

a P . AI . of his mother lodge , and Prov . Grand Registrar of Herts , and the year he joined Antiquity was apjiointcd to the important office of Grand Registrar . Two other distinguished Alasons joined about the same time , namely , Bro . Lawrence Walker , who was J . G . D . in 1841 , and the Alarquis of Salisbury . His lordship was initiated in the

Hertford Lodge—now A o . 423—in October , 1829 , and the year following was invested b y his Royal Hi ghness as S . G . W . of England . In 1831 he was ajipoiiited , in succession to the late Bro . George Harvey-, Provincial Grand Alaster of Hertfordshire , and the jiresent Salisbury-Lodge , which was originally constituted in Hertfordshire , and the Cecil Lodge , No . 440 , Hitchin , servo to ja-rjieluate his connection

with the Craft . He was also Grand Sujieriiitendent of Herts , and from 1840 to 1843 held the jiost of D . G . Alaster . Earl y in 1844 , for private and personal reasons , into which it would be imjiroper to inquire , his lordshiji resigned all his offices in Craft and Arch Masonrv , which , undoubtedly , hy this act sustained a great loss ,

especially in his native jirovincc , to tho brethren in which he had endeared himself by his kindness and geniality . The Bros . Claude Edward Scott and Samuel Scott , connected with the well-known linn of bankers , of Cavendish-square , at which for many years our Boys' School kept its account , were among the other additions during