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the Register as Thisleton—who was Junior Grand Warden in 1 S 22 , and in 1844 succeeded to the Baronv of Save and Sole ; Edward Ellis , a brother of Welbore Ellis ; George ' Warrc , J . G . W . in 1824 ; and Sir IT . Willoughbv , Bart . Bro . William Williams , M . P ., President of the

Board of General Purposes , and Prov . Grand Master of Dorsetshire 1812-29 , who was charged with the duty of revising the Book of Constitutions after thc Union , and Bro . Sir Roger Gresley , Bart ., were among the elect of 1819 , and Bro . the Hon . Edward Petre , S G . W . in 1826 among those of the year following .

The most prominent additions in 1821 were Bros . W . Gill Paxton , M . P ., David Marjoribanks , and Joshua Walker . M . P .. who was J . G . W . in 1829 , while in 1822 Bro . Charles M . Williams , J . G . W . in 1825 , and F . Hollis Brandram , S . G . W . in 1824 , James Scott , M . P ., Octavius Wigram , William Marjoribanks , and the Rev . W . Fallon eld were added to the roll , the last named , who was one of the Grand Chaplains

from 1836 to 1847 , joining from the Royal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge , No . 4 . Tn 1823 , there were admitted Bros . Col . J . Drummond Elphinstone , G Crawford Antrobus , M . P ., Sir John Rae Reid , Bart ., who had been Chairman of the East India Company in 1820-21 ; W . J Symons , who had been appointed S . G . AV . tho year previous ; a third member of the Wigram family ; a third

Marjoribanks , and a second Ramsbottom , while among those belonging to the year 1824 the most conspicuous appears to have been Bro . Frederick Perkins , who served as S . G . I ) , in 1819 . The year 1825 was also fortunate in the number and position of those who were elected , the more striking names in the list being those of Bros . Pascoe St . Ledger Gretvfell , Geo . Carr Glyn , a partner in thc banking firm of Glvn ,

Mills , Currie , and Co ., who in 1869 was created Baron Wolverton ; Somerville Ramsbottom . anil the Right Hon . Charles P . Thompson , M . P ., Treasurer of the Navy . Lord IT . John Spencer Churchill , who played a leading part in Masonry for many years , heads the contingent of 1826 . His lordship was S . G . W . ' in ' 1832 , Deputy Grand Master from 1835 to 1838 , and Provincial Grand Master of '

Oxfordshire from 1837 till his death in 1843 . while in addition he served from 1834 to 1836 as President of the Board of General Purposes . In 1828 Bros . George Lyall , M . P .. and Thomson Hankey , jun ., were elected , and in 1830 , Bro . Sir John Easthope . M . P ., who had served as- ' ¦' . G . W . in 182 Sand was President , of the Board of General Purposes 1831-43 ; and the Marquis of Salisbury , who hail been

initiated in the autumn of the previous year in the Hertford Lodge ( now No . 403 ) , and was S . G . W . of England at the time he joined this lodge . In 1831 his lordship was appointed Provincial Grand Master of Hertfordshire and was installed in office as such on the 7 th November , 1833 . He was proposed for exaltation to the Roj'a 1 Arch Degree by the Dnke of Sussex in Supreme Grand

Chapter and exalted with the lafe Duke of Abercorn and another nobleman at a subsequent , convocation of the same body . Tn 1835 ho was instal ' cd Grand Superintendent for Hertfordshire , and from 1840 till his retirement from Freemasonry was Deputy Grand Master of England and Grand IT . Early iii 1 S 44 , he resigned all his Masonic offices , and never afterwards took any part in the affairs of our Society . Tho entries in 1831 , which conclude this section of

the Register , include Bros . George Wyafville , Joseph and Charles Grote , Edward Arbiitbuot , Henry James Prescott , who was J . G . W . in 1837 , and George Stone , jun ., who had s' -rved in the same capacit y three years later . As for the year 1832 , it was entirely barren of recruits , possibly because people had too much in the shape , of political excitement to occupy their minds to think about entering the peaceful folds of Freemasonry .

PART III . —1832—1863 .

The first name to attract attention after the closing up of numbers in 1 S 32—by which operation , however , the position of No . 6 was in no wise affected—is that of Bro . the Hon , Arthur Kinnaird , who succeeded to the titles of Lord Kinnaird and Rossie in 1878 . He was a younger brother of George William , 9 ( h Baron Kinnaird anil

1 st Baron Rossie , who was Grand Master Mason of Scotland in the years 1830 and 1831 , and on the hitter ' s death succeeded , as already stated , to the title and estates as 10 th Baron Kinnaird and 2 nd Baron Rossie . Next in order , but belonging to the year 1836 , comes that of Edward Jfarhord , Lord Suflielil , who had been initiated live

years previousl y m the Apollo University Lodge of Oxford , and was appointed J . G . W . of England in 1836 . and Provincial Grand Master of Norfolk in 1845 . A little further on is the name of Bro . Col . afterwards Major-General — the Hon . George Anson , M . I ' ., a distinguished patron of ihe turf , who was Commander-in-Chief in India

at the outbreak of the . Mutiny , and died of cholera before Delhi in 1857 . Bro . Anson was Provincial Grand Master of Staffordshire from 1837 to 1853 . Next comes Lord Albert Couynghani . M . P ., ( lie father of the present Earl of Londesborough , Past S . G . W ., who was created Baron Londesboiough , of Londesborough , in the County of

York , in 1 S 50 , anil three years later was appointed S . G . W . of England . Immediatel y following Lord Albert is the Moolvic Mahomed Khan , ambassador from the King of Olule , who was initiated in the lodge on the 13 lh April , . 1836 , and on whom in the same year his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was pleased to confer

the rank ol a Past S . G . W . ; Bro . Alan Legge Gardner , third Lord Gardner , who was a Lord-iu-Wnifing from 1 N 32 fo 1811 ; the Rev . John Vane , Chaplain to thc House of Commons , Grand Chaplain 1836 40 ; Benjamin B . Cabbell , who joined from the Lodge of Antiquity , and had already served as G . S . B . in 1826 and J . G . W . in

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1828 , and who in 1854 succeeded Lord Suffield as Provincial Grand Master of Norfolk ; Bro . Rowland Alston , M . P ., who was initiated in the Stortford Lodge ( now No . 409 ) , was Senior Grand Warden in 1835 , and Provincial Grand Master of Essex 1836 to 1854 ; Charles Stewart—or as he is more properly described in a later Register , Frederick William—Viscount Castlereagh , subsequently

Marquis of Londonderry ; the Hon . James Macdonald , of the Life Guards , who served in thc Crimea , and was for many years Private Secretary to the Duke of Cambridge ; Count Batthyany ; John Elphinstone , who in 1859 succeeded to the Scottish Baroney of Elphinstone as 14 th Baron , and the Princes Najaf Meerza , Rceza , and Timour , grandsons of Fntteb Ali , Shah of Persia , who with their

interpreter were initiated m the lodge at thc Thatched House Tavern on tho 14 th July of the same year . Thus the year 1836 appears to have been one of thc most memorable in the annals of thc lodge , the number of initiates and joining members entered in the Grand Lodge Register being no less than 24 , of whom , as I have shown , not a few won or already enjoyed distinction within or outside thc ranks of the Craft .

The recruits were less numerous m 1837 , but the }* include , nevertheless , snndry who had already or subsequentl y distinguished themselves in Masonry , such as Bro . Sir John Josiah Guest , Bart ., M . P ., who at the time he joined the lodge was Provincial Grand Master of South Wales ; Arthur Wells ' B . S . T ., Earl of Hillsborough , subsequently fourth Marquis of Downshire , who was

initiated the 13 th April , and became Provincial Grand Master of Berks and Bucks in 1847 : and the Hon . Augustus H . Moreton , M . P .. second son of the Earl of Ducic , who was appointed S . G . W . in 1862 : the Hon . Fox Manic , M . P ., who joined on the llth May from No . 68 , Quebec , became Secretary of State for War in 1855 , and some years later succeeded to the Earldom of Dalhousie .

His lordship was S . G . W . of England in 1837 , and Deputy Grand Master fi-om 1857 to 1860 , and Grand Master Mason of Scotland 1870-73 . He was one of the most kindly and genial of men , and was especiall y diligent in whatever was calculated to promote the interests of Freemasonry . In 1838 there were no joining members and but two initiates , namely , Bro . Archibald Hastie , M . P ., who was S . G . W . in

1843 , and the Earl of Erroll , hereditary High Constable of Scotland , who was successively Lord Steward of the Household and Master of the Buckhounds , and married the Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence , natural daughter of William IV . Tn 1839 there were also two initiates , of whom Bro . Robert Hollond , M . P ., J . G . W . in 1841 , was one , while the year following there was initiated the present father

of the lodge . Bro . Bonamy Dobree , jun ., who was S . G . W . in 1854 . Four brethren were elected as joining members , among them being Bros . Edward J . Hutchins and Rowland Gardiner Alston , who joined from Apollo University Lodge of Oxford , and was J . G . W . in 1845 . Bro . Alston was a very strong snpporter of the Boys' School , and to his exertions and the influence he was able to exercise with

the Earl of Zetland , M . W . G . M ., the Institution is mainly indebted for the establishment of the School at Wood Green . Among the initiates of 1841 was Bro . Arthnr E . Campbell , who was J . G . W . in 1848 , and is still living , while the joining members included Bro . Henry Arthur Hoare , banker , of the Lodge of Antiquity , who was appointed to the chair of S . G . W . in 1846 . The years 1842 and

1843 were unproductive of any increase to the numerical strength of the lodge , hut the two following years furnished each of them it strong complement . Bro . Sir Richard B . Phillips , Bart ., M . P ., who subsequently became Lord Milford , and after sorvingas S . G . W . in 1845 , was on the Division of South Wales into two provinces in 1841

appointed Provincial Grand Master of the Western Division , being elected a joining member in 181-4 , and Bro . Francis Beilb y Alston , now Sir F . B . Alston , of the Foreign Office , who joined from a , lodge in Saxe-Moiiiingen in 1845 , and was S . G . W . in 1850 . Bro . Thomas Tooko , jtui , who joined a month earlier than Bro . Alston , was J . G . W . in 185 ( 5 .

Ei < rht initiates and two brethren from Ireland were added to the roll in ° 181 . () , Bros . John Bowes , M . P ., Thomas Alex . Mitchell , M . P .. . / . ( J . W . in 1852 , and A . 0 . L . Beiitinck being among the former , while Bros , the Hon . George O'Calhighaii , M . P ., J . G . W . in 1847 , and Sir Will . Chatterton , Bart ., Provincial Grand Master of Minister , constituted the latter . The year following Bros .

J . 0 . Morris , the S . G W . of the year , and David Morris , M . P ., were among those who joined , while the initiates included Bros . Robert Cmilill'e . J . G . W . in 1865 , who still survives , and Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks , the present Lord Tweedinouth , fo whom allusion has already been niadein connection with his uncle , Bro . Stewart Marjoribanks . Among the initiates of 1848 were Bros , the Hon . Edward

Keppcl W . Coke , M . P ., of the Scots Fusilier Guards , a brother to the present Earl of Leicester , and Sir Archibald K . Macdonald , Bart ., while of those received into the Craft under the auspices of Friendship , in 1849 , tlie most . conspicuous is Bro . H . W . Eaton , sometiineM . P . for Coventry , and subsequently created Baron Cheylesmore , who died suddenly while on a eontinential tour only a few months

since . On the 12 th June , 1851 , Bro . jAugustus U . Novclli , J . G . W . in 1861 , was initiated , and on the llth March of the following year , Bro . Rob . Wigram Crawford , M . P ., while about three months later there lignresusa joining member , Bro . John SnuUiolmeBrownrigg , described as a Captain in the Guards , and bailing from St . Andrew ' s Lodge ,

No . 187 , which met in CanadaWe . sf , an I was erased from the list of lodges in 1857 . It is but the other day that Bro . General Brownrigg died , and it is unnecessary to say more of him than that he served with distinction in the Crimea , that he was appointed S . G . W . and Assistant Grand Sojourner in Grand Chapter ,