The Grand Lodge Festival.

Bro . G . R . Sinclair , M . D . ... ... G . Organist . ,, William Lake ... ... ... Asst . G . Secretary . „ ,,. ., „ . r Asst . G . Sec . for ,, Gotthelt Greiner ... ... > _ ~ \ German Corres . „ E . W . Nightingale ... ... G . Pursuivant . „ W . H . Bale 1 ... ... Asst . G . Purst .

„ Henry Sadler ... ... ... G . Tyler . By direction of Earl Amherst , Bro . Letchworth read the following names of the Grand SteAvards for the ensuing year who had been approved of by the M . W . G . Master : —Bros . Cecil Holden White , Lodge No . 1 ; Sir Simeon H . L . Stuart ,

Bart ., No . 2 ; Wilson Crewdson , M . A ., No . 4 ; Louis MattheAv Cantlow , No . 5 ; Fred . D . Greed , No . 6 ; Arthur Llewellyn Jones , No . 8 ; William John Dyer , No . 14 ; Sydney Willis , No . 21 ; Frederick A . Powell , No . 23 ; Albert Hamilton Godfrey , No . 26 ; George T . Langridge , No . 29 ; Harry

Northcroft , No . 4 6 ; Charles Frederick Wahl , No . 58 ; Charles HoAvard Jackman , No . 60 ; Charles Herbert Gray , No . 91 ; Edgar H . Bernhard , No . 99 ; Joseph Loftus Wilkinson , No . 197 ; and Sidney Harold Hargrove , No . 259 . Grand Lodge was then closed in ample form .

The Grand SteAvards , in accordance with ancient custom , then entertained the Grand Officers and a large number of brethren and ladies at a banquet in Freemasons' Tavern , and a concert afterwards took place in the Temple under the direction of the Grand Organist of the year , Bro . Walmsley Little , Mus . Doc .

The New Grand Officers.

The New Grand Officers .

SKNIOR GRAND WARDEN . The Earl of Donoughmore , who has been appointed to the Senior Warden's chair of Grand Lodge , comes from an old Masonic stock , the first Earl having been elected Grand Master of Ireland in 1789 , and his father was Senior Grand

Warden of the Grand Lodge of England in 1879 . The present Earl was initiated in the United Lodge , No . 1620 , and shortly after joined the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , Oxford . In 18 97 he joined the Perseverance Lodge , No . 116 5 , Hong Kong , and early in the present year took

part in founding the Erin Lodge , No . 2905 , in London . He was exalted in the United Chapter in 18 9 8 . J UNIOR GRAND WARDKN . Major-General the Hon . H . F . Eaton , C . B ., was initiated in the Lodge of Friendship , No . 6 , in 1869 . In 1871 ; he

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joined St . Michael ' s Lodge , No . 16 30 , Coventry , and in 18 9 6 took part in founding the Household Brigade Lodge , No . 2614 , of which His Majesty the King , then Prince of Wales , was installed as first W . M ., General Eaton following as Master live years later . At present he tills the office of Treasurer . He was exalted as a Royal Arch Mason in

St . Michael's Chapter , No . 1630 , Coventry , in 1875 . GRAND CHAPLAINS . Bro . the Rev . Canon W . Quennell was initiated in Hope and Unity Lodge , No . 214 , Brentwood , in 1878 , and joined Berkhampstead Lodge , No . ^ 04 , in 188 = ; . He was exalted in

BRO . THE REV . CANON QUENNELL . the Hope and Unity Royal Arch Chapter in 1892 , and in the same year was advanced in the Brentwood Mark Lodge , No . 377 . His appointments to Provincial Grand rank have been numerous , viz . : —Provincial Grand Chaplain of both

Essex and Hertfordshire , and Grand H . of the latter province , while he has filled the position in the Mark Degree of Provincial Grand Chaplain of East Anglia and of Essex , and in the latter province from its foundation . Bro . Quennell is a Life Governor of both the Girls' and Boys' School , and has served as Steward once for the former and hvice for the latter Institution .

The Rev . David Bowen , B . A ., hails from the Principality , having been initiated in the Prince of Wales Lodge , No . 6 71 , Llanelly , in 1868 , and in 1878 became founder and first W . Master of the Castlemartin Lodge , No . 174 8 , Pembroke Dock . He is a Royal Arch Mason , having been exalted in the Loyal Welsh Chapter , No . 378 . In the Province of

South Wales ( W . D . ) he occupies the position of Deputy Grand Master , and has been both Provincial Grand Chaplain and P . G . Warden of the same province . He is a Life Governor of the Boys' School and has served as Steward .

GRAND TRKASURKR . FCAV Members of the Order are so equally Avell known to the Craft in both London and Ihe provinces as Bro . Captain Barlow , indeed it is not easy to rank him as a Metropolitan or Provincial Brother . Masonically he is of London birth , having been initiated in the John Hervey Lodge , No . 1260 , in

1868 . Since then he has taken part in founding numerous lodges and joining others in both town and country , in more than one of which he has occupied the chair of W . Master . He has filled the office of Provincial Grand Warden of East