Bro. J. Copley Moyle, District Grand Master For Burma.

Bro . J . Copley Moyle , District Grand Master for Burma .

''PHE subject of our sketch was initiated into Masonry in J Lodge Industry and Perseverance , No . 109 ( E . G . ) , Calcutta , on February 1 st , 1878 , and exalted in the New Union Chapter in May , 1879 . In August , 1878 , he was advanced to the Degree of M . M . M .

RRO . JAMKS COPLEY MOYLH .

After acting as Grand Mark Secretary in Bengal he proceeded to Burma in 1881 , where he rendered great assistance to the kite District Grand Master in the craft , R . W . Bro . His Honour Judge M'Leod , whom he succeeded in 18 99 , and to the efforts of these two distinguished brethren the present nourishing condition of the District of Burma is mainly clue .

He is District Grand Superintendent in the Royal Arch Degree . Upon the introduction of the Order of the Secret Monitor into Burma by the late Bro . Judge M'Leod Bro . Moyle soon became an ardent adherent , and in 1901 he was appointed District Grand Supreme Ruler , receiving his credentials

direct from the Right Hon . the Earl of Warwick , in person , at the summer convocation of the Grand Conclave . He founded the Rose Croix Chapter Sabrun , and presided over it for five . consecutive years . In acknowledgment of his great services to the Ancient and Accepted Rite the Supreme

Council 33 elected him in 18 99 to the 31 . Shortly after arriving in Maulmain he obtained a warrant for the Tenasserim Royal Arch Chapter , and resuscitated the old Mark Lodge , No . 79 , attaching to it a Royal Ark Mariner Lodge , and becoming the first W . S . N , thereof . He is now

the District Grand Master in the Mark . In the Excelsior Conclave of the Red Cross of Constantine he is P . S . as well as founder , and an ex-Commander of the Commandery in Excelsis , Maulmain . He is also Provincial Grand Prior of Burma .

He is patron of the Greenlow Masonic Orphan Fund ( Burma ) and was for some years local Secretary of the Ars Quatuor Coronati Lodge . A new lodge , named after Bro . Moyle , has recently been founded at Maynoyo , the new Burma Hill Station .

Bro . Moyle is a Barrister-at-law of Lincoln ' s Inn , where he was called in 1869 . He is an Advocate of the High Court , Calcutta , and of the Chief Court , Burma , and at present holds the office of Public Prosecutor , Maulmain , and is one of those brethren holding high legal positions who have done so much for Masonry in outlying portions of the Empire .

He is the author of several well known legal works , and of one which his Masonic instincts undoubtedly prompted him to undertake , showing " the corresponding dates of the Burmese and Official Calendars for fifty years . " Bro . Moyle springs from an old Cornish family , one of

whose members was Speaker of the House of Commons in the time of Charles II ., and his dignified presence and manner in the discharge of his duties irresistibly reminds his friends of this fact .

Freemasonry In Madras.

Freemasonry in Madras .

THE advent of his Excellency Lord Ampthill as Governor of the Presidency of Madras and his assumption of the office of District Grand Master in February of last year marks an epoch in the history of Freemasonry in the South of India . When news of his appointment to the Governorship of the Presidency was receivedit was felt

, by R . W . Bro . Sir George Moore , the then District Grand Master , that so keen a Mason as the Provincial Grand Master of Bedfordshire would do much for the advancement of Masonry in Madras if the opportunity were afforded him , and he accordingly placed in the hands of the late Grand

Master , our present King , his resignation of the office he held in order that Lord Ampthill might be appointed thereto . '¦ ' The news of Lord Ampthill ' s acceptance of the District Grand Mastership was received with much satisfaction by

the brethren in South India , as his known ability and zeal as a Mason , combined with the prestige of his position as Governor , was bound to make for the progress and welfare of the Craft in this District . These anticipations have been fully realised , not by any actual increase in numbers , but in the display of vastly more interest in Masonic affairs and a general smartening up of the lodges throughout the District .

His Excellency Lord Ampthill presided at the meeting of District Grand Lodge on the 22 nd February , which marked the close of the first year of his rule as District Grand Master , and was supported by a very large attendance of the members of District Grand Lodge , many of whom had to travel very long distances to reach Madras . Over a dozen

members travelled from 200 to 300 miles , and some two or three from even longer distances . Just before the meeting the photograph which we reproduce was taken . It represents the District Grand Master surrounded by such of the Past and Present District Grand

Officers as had then arrived . On the right of the District Grand Master sits W . Bro . Dunsterville , the late Deputy District Grand Master , whose departure from India for good immediately after the meeting was a matter of great regret to every Mason in the District .

To his Excellency personally , Bro . Dunsterville ' s departure was a matter of the keenest regret , to which he gave expression in the most felicitous terms at the meeting . Sitting on his Excellency ' s left is Sir George Moore , who for several years ruled the District with much acceptance lo the brethren , and whose retirement was the occasion of the hearty expression of the genuine regard in which he is held .