The New Grand Officers.

No . 2158 , also , in 1903 , the United Lodge , No . 1629 , and in this year was elected Master of his mother Lodge , No . 195 . Provincial Grand rank was conferred on him in 1903 , he being the Senior Grand Warden of that year . In the Royal Arch he was exalted in the Hengist Chapter , No . 195 , in 1903 . Our distinguished brother is a Life Governor of the

BRO . THK KARL OF MALMESBURY . Girls' School and a Life Subscriber to the Boys , and served as Steward for the former at the 1903 Festival . The Earl of Malmsbury is the son of the 4 th Earl , and was born

December 18 th , 1872 . He is captain of the 3 rd Battalion Hants Regiment , and was formerly a lieutenant of yeomanry . His seat is at Heran Court , Christchurch , Hants .

J UNIOR GRAND WARDEN . Viscount Grimston was initiated in the Medina Lodge , No . 35 , Cowes , in 1902 , and joined the Apollo University Lodge at Oxford , as well as the Halsey Lodge , No . 1479 , in the same year . When appointed to Grand office he was

W . M . elect of his mother lodge , and has since been installed in that chair Bro . Viscount Grimston was exalted in Apollo University Royal Arch Chapter last year . He has served as Steward of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , and is a Life Governor of that Institution .

GRAND CHAPLAINS . The Very Rev . Dean Lefroy , D . D ., whose distinguished career as a scholar and divine , rather than length of services in Masonry , lias been recognised by his appointment as Grand Chaplain , was initiated in the Union Lodge , Norwich ,

in 18 99 , and joined the Norfolk , No . 2852 , London ( of which he was a founder ) , in 1901 becoming Worshipful Master in 1903 . He was appointed Provincial Grand Chaplain of Norfolk soon after his initiation in 1899 . It has been given to few men to render such services to the church as the

present Dean of Norwich . He has raised large sums of money for church purposes , has built several churches in Liverpool and in the Alps , and the many learned appointments held by him and the enumeration of his numerous theological and historical works would iill a large space in

our columns . The Dean is an enthusiastic mountaineer , was a member of the Alpine Club and spends every vacation in

I 1 UO . THK VERY REV . W . LEFROY . the Reffel Alps . He is also a great lover of music , and is regarded as the originator of the Clergy Sustentation Fund .

The Rev . J . Holme Pilkington has a longer record in Masonry than his distinguished colleague , having been , initiated in 1888 in Fidelity Lodge , No . 555 , Framlingham , of which he became Worshipful Master just ten years later . He has also held office in Provincial Grand Lodge as Prov .

BRO . THK REV . JAMES HOLME I'lLKINCJTOX . G . Chaplain iin 1892 , Senior Grand Warden in 1901 ; and in 1 9 , was appointed Deputy Grand Master by the Earl of Stradbroke on the occasion of the Earl's installation as