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Our Architectural Chapter
CTCTR ARCHITECTXTKAL CHAPTER
¦ , I # the Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham ; we notice that the Prov . Grrand Master has appointed Bro . G . A . Middlemiss Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works , We are puzzled a little as to West Yorkshire . W £ presume that Bro . Gill has been appointed Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works ; but we are not sure of it .
Bro . Wigginton is kind enough to defend himself from the charge of writing or dictating a single line in the Architectural Chapter . This was quite needless , even to satisfy the local Brethren , for they have no right to assume that Bro . Wigginton , although enj oying local notoriety , must necessarily write everything on architecture in
London , Bro . Wigginton finding himself while still a Junior Warden , an officer of Prov . Grand Lodge , in a very ambiguous capacity / seems to think we have not given sufficient weight to the matter , as we did not discriminate whether he had been appointed Grand Sword Bearer or Grand Standard Bearer . We are glad he has set us right . We do not agree with him in the apology he has put forward for the Prov . Grand Master of Worcestershire . It is quite true , that it was a flattering promotion for the Prov . Grand Master to create a Junior Warden Grand Sword Bearer , but it would have been much better for the Prov . Grand Master to have appointed
a Junior Warden Grand Superintendent of Works , than to have appointed a tailor to that office , albeit a Past Master . Bro . Wigginton feels " that the Prov . Grand Master , even if so inclined , could scarcely have been justified in giving so high an appointment as Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works . " We feel that as there is very little distance in the provincial hierarchy between Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works and Prov . Grand Sword Bearer , that the tailor
might have had the latter , and that Bro . Wigginton might , without any " offence"' having been given , have been appointed to the other office . Why Bro . Wigginton , a Junior Warden , has been brought into G-rand Lodge , we should like to know , and we can conceive that "it has given offence in one quarter , " simply because he is neither a Past Master nor Past Warden , It is likely to give offence in many quarters without some explanation , for it seems an injudicious
appointment , as it stands unexplained . The appointment , as Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works , would have been quite justifiable if there were no other architect of equal eminence available . As the matter stood , it was indeed for the honour and dignity of the Order , that an architect should be appointed instead qf a tailor . Bro . Wigginton too as a Fellow of the Institute of British Architects , as an exhibitor , and as a known architect , is a man who takes a higher
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Our Architectural Chapter
CTCTR ARCHITECTXTKAL CHAPTER
¦ , I # the Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham ; we notice that the Prov . Grrand Master has appointed Bro . G . A . Middlemiss Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works , We are puzzled a little as to West Yorkshire . W £ presume that Bro . Gill has been appointed Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works ; but we are not sure of it .
Bro . Wigginton is kind enough to defend himself from the charge of writing or dictating a single line in the Architectural Chapter . This was quite needless , even to satisfy the local Brethren , for they have no right to assume that Bro . Wigginton , although enj oying local notoriety , must necessarily write everything on architecture in
London , Bro . Wigginton finding himself while still a Junior Warden , an officer of Prov . Grand Lodge , in a very ambiguous capacity / seems to think we have not given sufficient weight to the matter , as we did not discriminate whether he had been appointed Grand Sword Bearer or Grand Standard Bearer . We are glad he has set us right . We do not agree with him in the apology he has put forward for the Prov . Grand Master of Worcestershire . It is quite true , that it was a flattering promotion for the Prov . Grand Master to create a Junior Warden Grand Sword Bearer , but it would have been much better for the Prov . Grand Master to have appointed
a Junior Warden Grand Superintendent of Works , than to have appointed a tailor to that office , albeit a Past Master . Bro . Wigginton feels " that the Prov . Grand Master , even if so inclined , could scarcely have been justified in giving so high an appointment as Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works . " We feel that as there is very little distance in the provincial hierarchy between Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works and Prov . Grand Sword Bearer , that the tailor
might have had the latter , and that Bro . Wigginton might , without any " offence"' having been given , have been appointed to the other office . Why Bro . Wigginton , a Junior Warden , has been brought into G-rand Lodge , we should like to know , and we can conceive that "it has given offence in one quarter , " simply because he is neither a Past Master nor Past Warden , It is likely to give offence in many quarters without some explanation , for it seems an injudicious
appointment , as it stands unexplained . The appointment , as Prov . Grand Superintendent of Works , would have been quite justifiable if there were no other architect of equal eminence available . As the matter stood , it was indeed for the honour and dignity of the Order , that an architect should be appointed instead qf a tailor . Bro . Wigginton too as a Fellow of the Institute of British Architects , as an exhibitor , and as a known architect , is a man who takes a higher