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Article Untitled ← Page 2 of 2 Article THE INITIATION OF H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR OF WALES. Page 1 of 1 Article THE ROYAL ALPHA LODGE, No. 16. Page 1 of 1 Article THE ROYAL ALPHA LODGE, No. 16. Page 1 of 1 Article CONSECRATION OF THE MONTAGUE GUEST CHAPTER, No. 1900. Page 1 of 2 →
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too large , —overgrown establishments , unwieldy in management , a burden to keep up . But we cannot see why , by a judicious system of management , provincial institutions may not assume the place of " feeders" for the central educational institutions . The same principle of election and selection will still prevail , and all that is required will be a similar system of educational preparation , which will enable scholars from our provincial
. institutions , when duly elected , to , c side into the metropolitan institutions without difficulty and without a break in their usual " curriculum . " Miss DAVIS and Dr . MORRIS could easily arrange a '' syllabus" for girls' and boys' provincial institutions , and a system of inspection might be arranged , which would keep the entire system in harmony and uniformity . It seems to us that these institutions must
grow with the growth of English Freemasonry , and their need as years run will be still more obvious and pressing . We have often heard lachrymose remarks as to the demands on our Charities ; but such , let us remember , if our Freemasonry is true and real , is the inevitable outcome of our Masonic organization and our remarkable increase . Freemasonry would be productive of more harm than good if it begun and ended in ritual
work and material sociality . Masonic Charity is the "leaven" which " leaveneth the whole lump , " which gives life and fruit to abstract professions and eloquent declamations , and without the energetic and practical grace of Charity , in whatever form it takes , all our honours , all our gauds , all our high-sounding titles , all our costly decorations would be as before , to uncritical , and severely judging , and often unfriendly
outer world , but as " sounding brass " or " tinkling cymbal . " For whatever complaint the censorious or the vituperative may have against Freemasonry in its idea and in its " output , " they cannot deny its " raison d ' etre , " they cannot reluse the evidence of their own senses , when they behold how useful and beneficent it is in the world , how it advances education , extends benevolence , and demonstrates itself to be by acts , better than countless words , a benefactress to Society and mankind , explaining and illustrating its own
hidden mysteries and secret organization by countless acts of genuine liberality , kindly humanity , and brotherly goodwill . Let us then make our minds up to an inevitable increase of claims before us , and while we render pur great central and Metropolitan Institutions-complete and perfect , —as far as anything can be perfect here , —let us sympathize with and encourage those good provincial brethren of ours who are seeking to supplement the great work of our Metropolitan Institutions , by local organizations of singular utility , value , activity , and effort .
The Initiation Of H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor Of Wales.
THE INITIATION OF H . R . H . PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR OF WALES .
On Tuesday last the initiation of our " Lewis , " Prince Albert Victor of Wales , by His Royal Highness the Grand Master , as W . M . of the lodge , took place at Willis's Rooms , before a distinguished circle of Freemasons , numbers ol the lodge . By the bye-laws of the Royal Alpha Lodge , which dates from 1722 ,
visitors are not admitted , and , therefore , on Tuesday , none but members were present . Had the ceremony been of a more public nature , a large attendance of the Craft would have attested the interest and loyalty of the brethren . The Alpha is a very select lodge , and limited in numbers , and the names represent some very distinguished individualities . Grand Master
Among those present were the Earl of Carnarvon , Pro in the Craft , was the Immediate Past Master ; Lord Balfour of Burleigh , Past Grand Warden , was Senior Warden ; Lord Limerick , Provincial Grand Master of Bristol , was the Junior Grand Warden ; Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Secretary , was Secretary ; the Rev . C . J . Martyn , Deputy Provincial Grand Master of Suffolk , and Sir John B . Monckton ,
Past Grand Warden , were the Deacons ; Sir Albert Woods ( Garter ) , fast Grand Warden , was the Director of Ceremonies ; the Rev . J . Brownrigg , Past Grand Chaplain , was the holder of the next office . The other members of the lodge included Bros , the Earl ol Lathom , Deputy Grand Master ; Lord Suffield , Prov . G . Master Norfolk ; Lord Henniker , P . G . W . ; Lord Carrington . P . G . W .: Lord Milltown , P . G . W . ; Lord Henry Thynne ,
P . G . W . ; Sir F . Roxburgh , Q . C , P . G . Reg . ; General J . Studholme Brownrigg , C . B ., Prov . G . M . Surrey ; IEneas J . Mclntyre , Q . C , M . P ., P . G . W . ; F . A . Philbrick , G . Reg . ; Captain Phillips , P . G . D . ; Col . Le Gendre N . Starkie , Prov . G . M . East Lancashire ; Thomas Fenn , President of the Board of General Purposes ; Montague J . Guest , M . P ., Prov . G . M . Dorset ; and the Rev . E . Moore , P . G . Chap . Bros . Francis
Knollys and Dalton were in attendance on the Prince . Bro . Crosse , who is Prov . Grand Organist for Norfolk and the private Organist at Sandringham , officiated as Organist . The Grand Tyler , Bro . Sadler , was in attendance , and the lodge was tyled by Bro . Speight , assisted by Bro . Gilbert . The lodge was held on the first floor , and set out with the appropriate furniture and jewels of the lodge .
Prince Albert Victor was duly initiated by his Royal father in person , and H . R . H . the Grand Master proved himself to be not only our titular Grand Master , but a "bright Mason " and a " working installed W . M . " The whole of the ceremony passed off with the greatest effect , and no doubt left a deep and lasting impression on the mind of the Royal Neophyte . After " work" was over the brethren adjourned to refreshment , where the
loyal and Masonic toasts were effectively given and warmly received , when the Initiate returned thanks on his health being affectionately proposed by his Royal father , and warmly received , with great "verve" and effect . ! Bro . the Earl of CARNARVON , proposed "The Health of the Grand Master and W . M . " in his usual effective manner , and His ROYAL
HIGHNESS made , as is his wont , a " telling " reply . It may interest our readers to know that the " working tools " were given by Bro . the Earl of Lathom , and the charge was delivered by Bro . the Earl of Carnarvon . The brethren of the lodge presented the Royal Initiate with the Royal Alpha star , or jewel of the lodge .
The Royal Alpha Lodge, No. 16.
THE ROYAL ALPHA LODGE , No . 16 .
It is almost unnecessary to point out that the Royal Alpha Lodge , m which H . R . H . Prince Albert Victor of Wales was initiated on Tuesday evening , is one of the most distinguished lodges on the roll of the United Grand Lodge of England . Its number sufficiently indicates its early origin , the date of its constitution belonging to the year 1722 , while the occasional glimpses at its proceedings which have from time to time been vouchsafed to us bear witness to the sterling worth no less than the exalted rank in Masonry of the majority of its members . It may be we hear but little
The Royal Alpha Lodge, No. 16.
through the ordinary channels of publicity of what passes within the precincts of the Royal Alpha , but its members certainly are known throughout the Craft as being among the most active and earnest members of our Society , and this we say , not merely because they are men of rank and substance , socially and Masonically , but because they so invariably recognise the force of the adage " Noblesse oblige . " There is of course in this case
as in that of nearly every distinguished body of men , whether Masons or non-Masons , a certain reciprocity of honour between the body and its members—that is to say , the honour conferred and received is mutual ; but if there be any difference of degree between the honour which is conferred and that which is received , we should say it is the lodge which is the more indebted to its members for the distinction it enjoys than are the
members to the lodge . However , such niceties of determination as this are uncalled for . It is enough that the Royal Alpha and its members are mutually worthy of each other , and that their conjoint claims upon our respect have been very appreciably enhanced by their act of Tuesday , when they accepted , in the first place as a brother Mason , and in the second as a brother member , the eldest son of our illustrious Grand Master the Prince of Wales .
If in the few remarks we purpose offering as to the career of this early lodge , we venture to suggest that , notwithstanding the antiquity of its con . stitution , the high position enjoyed by the Royal Alpha is of comparativel y modern date , we shall not thereby be detracting from its undoubted merits . A glance at the pages of Bro . Gould ' s " Four Old Lodges " will show that at the outset , and for many many years afterwards , there was nothing of an
exceptional character as regards either its habitat or its membershi p that could have forshadowed its present status . The Royal Alpha , we are told , " met 1729-37 at the One Tun , Noble-street ; 173 S-45 Red Cross , Ban % Barbican ; 1745 Mitre , within Aldersgate ; 1750-4 Sun , Milk-street ; 1755-61 Crown , Leadenhall-street ; 1762-81 Running Horse , David-street , Grosvenor-square ; 1782-98 King ' s Arms , Brook-street , Grosvenor-square
1799-1804 Coach and Horses , Dover-street , Piccadilly ; 1805-8 , Malpas Arms , Charles-street , Grosvenor-square ; 1 S 09 Tower Coffee House , Bondstreet ; 1810 Malpas Arms ; 1811-15 Worcester Coffee House , Oxfordstreet . " For a long time it was , like other lodges , known only by the name ofthe house in which it held its meetings ; and it was only in 176 S that it was styled the "Ionic" Lodge . In 1814 , the year following the Union . it
became the " United Lodge Ionic and Prudence , " but it was not till close on ten years later that it received its present designation of the Royal Alpha Lodge , and for that , as well as for the distinction it has ever since enjoyed , it is indebted to our then Grand Master , H . R . H . the Dukeof Sussex , under whose auspices it met within the Royal Palace of Kensington . Since then its career has been one uninterrupted course
of prosperity , and if its members , as such , have not figured prominently in the ordinary functions of Masonry , it is because they cannot endue themselves with two personalities , or , in other words , they cannot appear as Grand or Past Grand Officers and at the same time as simple members of the lodge . Here , as in other things , the less is absorbed in the greater . They meet in the Royal Alpha in the capacity of members practising our rites and cultivating good fellowship ,
like the brethren of other lodges ; outside its portals they are among the very 61 ite of Masonry . It must not be supposed , however , that the lodge in its corporate capacity is less mindful than its members individually are known to be of its obligations towards the Craft as a body . Its name figures in the roll of supporters of all our three Institutions , the votes in perpetuity to which its several contributions entitle it being vested in the Worshipful Master for the time being .
There are one or two other circumstances which may fitly be mentioned on this occasion . We believe it is pretty generally known—at all events , it was very generally stated at the time—that not so very long after the Queen ' s marriage with the late Prince Consort , his Royal Highness seriously contemplated becoming a member of our Society . It is even said that his intention was only frustrated by the death of the Duke of Sussex . Be this as it may ,
it will probably be news to the Craftsmen of the present day that in the earlier half of the year 1843 it was openly announced by the Press that their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert , Consort of the Queen , and Prince George ( now Duke ) of Cambridge would be initiated into Freemasonry on a certain specified day , and that , too , in the Royal Alpha Lodge , of which their uncle , the late Duke of Sussex , was Master . It is also worth
recording that an initiation in this lodge is almost as rare an occurrence as the initiation of a Royal brother . We are not sufficiently posted in its history to be able to state how many brethren are entitled to speak of the Royal Alpha as their mother lodge ; but it must be quite ten years since an initiation took place , and then the person so honoured was his Excellency Bro . Baron Hochschild , Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St . James's of the present King of Sweden .
This , then , is the lodge which has been so fortunate as to receive Prince Albert Victor of Wales on his entrance into the ranks of Freemasonry . That it must be very proud of its newest member is certain , and we are confident the day will be very welcome when the youthful initiate of to-day shall figure as W . M ., with his illustrious father and uncle at hand to aid him with their experience and counsel .
Consecration Of The Montague Guest Chapter, No. 1900.
CONSECRATION OF THE MONTAGUE GUEST CHAPTER , No . 1900 .
We have recently had the gratification of reporting the establishment of an increasing number of Royal Arch Chapters , and the opinion we expressed in these pages some time since , to the effect that every well-established and progressive lodge should have its Royal Arch Chapter attached , bids fair to become realized . The last addition to the roll is the Montague Guest Chapter . The lodge was established some three years since , and has in that short time taken a high position among London lodges . The chapte r
has every prospect of equal success , and starts under even better auspices . Both bear the name ofthe popular Prov . Grand Master for Dorset , and with this advantage in favour of the chapter that not only does it use the name of Comp-Montague Guest , but it has the additional honour of commencing its lite with him as its First Principal . With this keystone and the zeal and energy of Comps . Festa and Hedges , as Second and Third Principal 5 ' success is assured .
The consecration took place at the Inns of Court Hotel , Lincoln ' s In ' " Fields , on Friday , the 13 th inst ., and the ceremony was performed by th 6 Grand Scribe E ., Comp . Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , assisted by Comps- r-A . Philbrick , Q . C , Grand Supt . of Essex , as H . ; Rev . C . W . Arnold , P . G . Chap ., as J . ; T . Fenn , President Board of General Purposes , as S . li-
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too large , —overgrown establishments , unwieldy in management , a burden to keep up . But we cannot see why , by a judicious system of management , provincial institutions may not assume the place of " feeders" for the central educational institutions . The same principle of election and selection will still prevail , and all that is required will be a similar system of educational preparation , which will enable scholars from our provincial
. institutions , when duly elected , to , c side into the metropolitan institutions without difficulty and without a break in their usual " curriculum . " Miss DAVIS and Dr . MORRIS could easily arrange a '' syllabus" for girls' and boys' provincial institutions , and a system of inspection might be arranged , which would keep the entire system in harmony and uniformity . It seems to us that these institutions must
grow with the growth of English Freemasonry , and their need as years run will be still more obvious and pressing . We have often heard lachrymose remarks as to the demands on our Charities ; but such , let us remember , if our Freemasonry is true and real , is the inevitable outcome of our Masonic organization and our remarkable increase . Freemasonry would be productive of more harm than good if it begun and ended in ritual
work and material sociality . Masonic Charity is the "leaven" which " leaveneth the whole lump , " which gives life and fruit to abstract professions and eloquent declamations , and without the energetic and practical grace of Charity , in whatever form it takes , all our honours , all our gauds , all our high-sounding titles , all our costly decorations would be as before , to uncritical , and severely judging , and often unfriendly
outer world , but as " sounding brass " or " tinkling cymbal . " For whatever complaint the censorious or the vituperative may have against Freemasonry in its idea and in its " output , " they cannot deny its " raison d ' etre , " they cannot reluse the evidence of their own senses , when they behold how useful and beneficent it is in the world , how it advances education , extends benevolence , and demonstrates itself to be by acts , better than countless words , a benefactress to Society and mankind , explaining and illustrating its own
hidden mysteries and secret organization by countless acts of genuine liberality , kindly humanity , and brotherly goodwill . Let us then make our minds up to an inevitable increase of claims before us , and while we render pur great central and Metropolitan Institutions-complete and perfect , —as far as anything can be perfect here , —let us sympathize with and encourage those good provincial brethren of ours who are seeking to supplement the great work of our Metropolitan Institutions , by local organizations of singular utility , value , activity , and effort .
The Initiation Of H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor Of Wales.
THE INITIATION OF H . R . H . PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR OF WALES .
On Tuesday last the initiation of our " Lewis , " Prince Albert Victor of Wales , by His Royal Highness the Grand Master , as W . M . of the lodge , took place at Willis's Rooms , before a distinguished circle of Freemasons , numbers ol the lodge . By the bye-laws of the Royal Alpha Lodge , which dates from 1722 ,
visitors are not admitted , and , therefore , on Tuesday , none but members were present . Had the ceremony been of a more public nature , a large attendance of the Craft would have attested the interest and loyalty of the brethren . The Alpha is a very select lodge , and limited in numbers , and the names represent some very distinguished individualities . Grand Master
Among those present were the Earl of Carnarvon , Pro in the Craft , was the Immediate Past Master ; Lord Balfour of Burleigh , Past Grand Warden , was Senior Warden ; Lord Limerick , Provincial Grand Master of Bristol , was the Junior Grand Warden ; Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Secretary , was Secretary ; the Rev . C . J . Martyn , Deputy Provincial Grand Master of Suffolk , and Sir John B . Monckton ,
Past Grand Warden , were the Deacons ; Sir Albert Woods ( Garter ) , fast Grand Warden , was the Director of Ceremonies ; the Rev . J . Brownrigg , Past Grand Chaplain , was the holder of the next office . The other members of the lodge included Bros , the Earl ol Lathom , Deputy Grand Master ; Lord Suffield , Prov . G . Master Norfolk ; Lord Henniker , P . G . W . ; Lord Carrington . P . G . W .: Lord Milltown , P . G . W . ; Lord Henry Thynne ,
P . G . W . ; Sir F . Roxburgh , Q . C , P . G . Reg . ; General J . Studholme Brownrigg , C . B ., Prov . G . M . Surrey ; IEneas J . Mclntyre , Q . C , M . P ., P . G . W . ; F . A . Philbrick , G . Reg . ; Captain Phillips , P . G . D . ; Col . Le Gendre N . Starkie , Prov . G . M . East Lancashire ; Thomas Fenn , President of the Board of General Purposes ; Montague J . Guest , M . P ., Prov . G . M . Dorset ; and the Rev . E . Moore , P . G . Chap . Bros . Francis
Knollys and Dalton were in attendance on the Prince . Bro . Crosse , who is Prov . Grand Organist for Norfolk and the private Organist at Sandringham , officiated as Organist . The Grand Tyler , Bro . Sadler , was in attendance , and the lodge was tyled by Bro . Speight , assisted by Bro . Gilbert . The lodge was held on the first floor , and set out with the appropriate furniture and jewels of the lodge .
Prince Albert Victor was duly initiated by his Royal father in person , and H . R . H . the Grand Master proved himself to be not only our titular Grand Master , but a "bright Mason " and a " working installed W . M . " The whole of the ceremony passed off with the greatest effect , and no doubt left a deep and lasting impression on the mind of the Royal Neophyte . After " work" was over the brethren adjourned to refreshment , where the
loyal and Masonic toasts were effectively given and warmly received , when the Initiate returned thanks on his health being affectionately proposed by his Royal father , and warmly received , with great "verve" and effect . ! Bro . the Earl of CARNARVON , proposed "The Health of the Grand Master and W . M . " in his usual effective manner , and His ROYAL
HIGHNESS made , as is his wont , a " telling " reply . It may interest our readers to know that the " working tools " were given by Bro . the Earl of Lathom , and the charge was delivered by Bro . the Earl of Carnarvon . The brethren of the lodge presented the Royal Initiate with the Royal Alpha star , or jewel of the lodge .
The Royal Alpha Lodge, No. 16.
THE ROYAL ALPHA LODGE , No . 16 .
It is almost unnecessary to point out that the Royal Alpha Lodge , m which H . R . H . Prince Albert Victor of Wales was initiated on Tuesday evening , is one of the most distinguished lodges on the roll of the United Grand Lodge of England . Its number sufficiently indicates its early origin , the date of its constitution belonging to the year 1722 , while the occasional glimpses at its proceedings which have from time to time been vouchsafed to us bear witness to the sterling worth no less than the exalted rank in Masonry of the majority of its members . It may be we hear but little
The Royal Alpha Lodge, No. 16.
through the ordinary channels of publicity of what passes within the precincts of the Royal Alpha , but its members certainly are known throughout the Craft as being among the most active and earnest members of our Society , and this we say , not merely because they are men of rank and substance , socially and Masonically , but because they so invariably recognise the force of the adage " Noblesse oblige . " There is of course in this case
as in that of nearly every distinguished body of men , whether Masons or non-Masons , a certain reciprocity of honour between the body and its members—that is to say , the honour conferred and received is mutual ; but if there be any difference of degree between the honour which is conferred and that which is received , we should say it is the lodge which is the more indebted to its members for the distinction it enjoys than are the
members to the lodge . However , such niceties of determination as this are uncalled for . It is enough that the Royal Alpha and its members are mutually worthy of each other , and that their conjoint claims upon our respect have been very appreciably enhanced by their act of Tuesday , when they accepted , in the first place as a brother Mason , and in the second as a brother member , the eldest son of our illustrious Grand Master the Prince of Wales .
If in the few remarks we purpose offering as to the career of this early lodge , we venture to suggest that , notwithstanding the antiquity of its con . stitution , the high position enjoyed by the Royal Alpha is of comparativel y modern date , we shall not thereby be detracting from its undoubted merits . A glance at the pages of Bro . Gould ' s " Four Old Lodges " will show that at the outset , and for many many years afterwards , there was nothing of an
exceptional character as regards either its habitat or its membershi p that could have forshadowed its present status . The Royal Alpha , we are told , " met 1729-37 at the One Tun , Noble-street ; 173 S-45 Red Cross , Ban % Barbican ; 1745 Mitre , within Aldersgate ; 1750-4 Sun , Milk-street ; 1755-61 Crown , Leadenhall-street ; 1762-81 Running Horse , David-street , Grosvenor-square ; 1782-98 King ' s Arms , Brook-street , Grosvenor-square
1799-1804 Coach and Horses , Dover-street , Piccadilly ; 1805-8 , Malpas Arms , Charles-street , Grosvenor-square ; 1 S 09 Tower Coffee House , Bondstreet ; 1810 Malpas Arms ; 1811-15 Worcester Coffee House , Oxfordstreet . " For a long time it was , like other lodges , known only by the name ofthe house in which it held its meetings ; and it was only in 176 S that it was styled the "Ionic" Lodge . In 1814 , the year following the Union . it
became the " United Lodge Ionic and Prudence , " but it was not till close on ten years later that it received its present designation of the Royal Alpha Lodge , and for that , as well as for the distinction it has ever since enjoyed , it is indebted to our then Grand Master , H . R . H . the Dukeof Sussex , under whose auspices it met within the Royal Palace of Kensington . Since then its career has been one uninterrupted course
of prosperity , and if its members , as such , have not figured prominently in the ordinary functions of Masonry , it is because they cannot endue themselves with two personalities , or , in other words , they cannot appear as Grand or Past Grand Officers and at the same time as simple members of the lodge . Here , as in other things , the less is absorbed in the greater . They meet in the Royal Alpha in the capacity of members practising our rites and cultivating good fellowship ,
like the brethren of other lodges ; outside its portals they are among the very 61 ite of Masonry . It must not be supposed , however , that the lodge in its corporate capacity is less mindful than its members individually are known to be of its obligations towards the Craft as a body . Its name figures in the roll of supporters of all our three Institutions , the votes in perpetuity to which its several contributions entitle it being vested in the Worshipful Master for the time being .
There are one or two other circumstances which may fitly be mentioned on this occasion . We believe it is pretty generally known—at all events , it was very generally stated at the time—that not so very long after the Queen ' s marriage with the late Prince Consort , his Royal Highness seriously contemplated becoming a member of our Society . It is even said that his intention was only frustrated by the death of the Duke of Sussex . Be this as it may ,
it will probably be news to the Craftsmen of the present day that in the earlier half of the year 1843 it was openly announced by the Press that their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert , Consort of the Queen , and Prince George ( now Duke ) of Cambridge would be initiated into Freemasonry on a certain specified day , and that , too , in the Royal Alpha Lodge , of which their uncle , the late Duke of Sussex , was Master . It is also worth
recording that an initiation in this lodge is almost as rare an occurrence as the initiation of a Royal brother . We are not sufficiently posted in its history to be able to state how many brethren are entitled to speak of the Royal Alpha as their mother lodge ; but it must be quite ten years since an initiation took place , and then the person so honoured was his Excellency Bro . Baron Hochschild , Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St . James's of the present King of Sweden .
This , then , is the lodge which has been so fortunate as to receive Prince Albert Victor of Wales on his entrance into the ranks of Freemasonry . That it must be very proud of its newest member is certain , and we are confident the day will be very welcome when the youthful initiate of to-day shall figure as W . M ., with his illustrious father and uncle at hand to aid him with their experience and counsel .
Consecration Of The Montague Guest Chapter, No. 1900.
CONSECRATION OF THE MONTAGUE GUEST CHAPTER , No . 1900 .
We have recently had the gratification of reporting the establishment of an increasing number of Royal Arch Chapters , and the opinion we expressed in these pages some time since , to the effect that every well-established and progressive lodge should have its Royal Arch Chapter attached , bids fair to become realized . The last addition to the roll is the Montague Guest Chapter . The lodge was established some three years since , and has in that short time taken a high position among London lodges . The chapte r
has every prospect of equal success , and starts under even better auspices . Both bear the name ofthe popular Prov . Grand Master for Dorset , and with this advantage in favour of the chapter that not only does it use the name of Comp-Montague Guest , but it has the additional honour of commencing its lite with him as its First Principal . With this keystone and the zeal and energy of Comps . Festa and Hedges , as Second and Third Principal 5 ' success is assured .
The consecration took place at the Inns of Court Hotel , Lincoln ' s In ' " Fields , on Friday , the 13 th inst ., and the ceremony was performed by th 6 Grand Scribe E ., Comp . Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , assisted by Comps- r-A . Philbrick , Q . C , Grand Supt . of Essex , as H . ; Rev . C . W . Arnold , P . G . Chap ., as J . ; T . Fenn , President Board of General Purposes , as S . li-