Provincial Grand Lodge Of Surrey.

members of one of the greatest and most numerous associations in the world , that whether they were in China , Russia , or any other part of the globe , it would go hard with them , but they would not find a Mason like themselves ever ready to stretch out the hand of friendship . A further word he

would like to say to those officers who had not succeeded in office . It was that they should do their best in the circumstances in which they were placed . He wanted them to remember that they had had a happy evening , and that there would be one man of all of them who would go home extremely grateful to them , knowing as he did that with

REIGATE CASTLE GATEWAY . their assistance he would do his best to give them that satisfaction which he hoped he had done in the past . He would proceed to propose " The Health of the Deputy

Provincial Grand Master and the rest of the Provincial Grand Officers , " and he was quite sure of the way in which they would receive that toast . He had said a little of Bro . Langton in lodge . He asked them if they were not justified in that appointment . So said he . They could not , therefore ,

do better than listen to Bro . Langton . He wished the greatest success for all the other Provincial Grand Officers , and he hoped brethren were in training as officers of the future . He would add that the lodges which did their , work properly were secure in being singled out for honour

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in this respect , while the reverse applied to the other sort of lodges . He hoped that Bro . Langton would for many years occupy the position to which he had been appointed that evening , and that he ( Bro . Bucknill ) might live for many years to see him do so .

Bro . J . D . Langton , P . D . G . D . of Cers ., Dep . G . Master , who was very cordially received , said he was sure he was saying what those who stood with him wished him to say when he thanked the brethren very heartily for their kindness . He would thank them personally also for the things that

had been said , not only at that table but in lodge . Might he also express his thanks to the many , over three hundred brethren , who had sent him letters of congratulation from all parts of the province . He would like to thank all those members of the Charity Committee and others who had

helped him in the position of Charity Secretary . The Charity Committee had been in existence but twelve years , and scarcely an election had taken place in which Surrey had not taken part , and with few exceptions they had always been successful on the first occasion . There were never so many applications for support for the different charities as

there were at the present moment . He asked them all to work together for the mutual good of the province . He should be accurately voicing the feelings of every Grand Officer in saying that they were all delighted to assist their Provincial Grand Master in the good work that was being done

for the province . Bro . Sir Thomas Bucknill had said a year ago he was not going to be a figure-head , and he had proved that assertion to be true . There had not been a detail too small in that province for him to give his personal and careful attention to .

Bro . Charles Tyler , P . A . G . D . C , Prov . G . Secretary , added a few words with regard to his pleasure at being once more amongst them . Bro . Sir Thomas Bucknill gave the toast of " The Visitors , " coupled with the name of V . W . Bro . Alderman Vaughan Morgan , P . G . Treas ., who fittingly responded .

The proceedings then terminated . The present Provincial Grand Master , the Hon . Mr . Justice Bucknill , was installed by Bro . the Rt . Hon . the Earl of Warwick , at Croydon , in Jul } 7 , 1903 . Bro . Sir Thomas Bucknill was initiated in the Lodge of Good Report , No . 136

( of which he afterwards became the Master ) , in 1869 . He was also a founder and the first Master of the Ebbisham Lodge , No . 2422 , in 18 97 . The office of Provincial Grand Warden was conferred upon him by Bro . Col . Money in