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Prov. Grand Lodge Of Cheshire.
Barker P . P . G . P ., James Hepworth P . P . G . Steward , S . Blaokshaw P . P . G . Standard Bearer , Thomas Pattinson P . P . G . P ., Ralph Andrew P . P . G . S . D ., A . Cockayne P . P . A . D . C , Edward Furnivale P . G . Swd . Br ., J . Beaumont Piercy P . P . G . S . W . ( Staff ) , W . J . Cotsworth P . P . G .
Steward , J . H . Hordern P . P . G . Steward , A . Lawley P . P . G . A . Secretary , Robert Bebbington P . P . G . P ., R . N . Banks P . P . G . P ., Jonathan Bailey P . P . G . Steward , Walter Kenworthy P . P . G . D . D . C , James Needham P . P . G . S . D . ' ,
John W . Brooks P . P . G . Steward , Thomas Eyre Mason P . P . G . Treasurer , W . Pritchard P . P . G . Asst . Secretary , Thomas Bowers P . P . G . D . C , William Ramsden P . P . G . D ., Thomas E . Gibbon P . P . G . Std ., Charles Vickars P . P . G . Std .,
John Knott P . P . G . Steward , William Peers P . P . G . Std ., James Cookson P . P . G . T ., Simpson Booth P . P . G . P ., Sam N . Brooks P . P . G . D . D . C , F . A . Daniel P . P . G . S . B ., Thomas Knowles P . P . G . A . D . C , A . L . Broad P . P . G . S . W . ( Staff . )
Fred Broadsmith P . P . G . R ., A . Ingham P . P . G . Steward I . P . M . 2144 , George R . Brady P . P . G . S . B ., Charles Booth P . P . G . S . D ., Eustace George Parker ; Brothers Cross W . M ., Peter Hancock S . W ., R . H . Yeomans J . W ., JM Taylor Secretary , Frank W . Hulme , F . Bettley Cook I . G .,
J . E . Lowndes , Nathan Large , Robert Walmsley Organist , Robert Brown , James Earl , Thomas Hancock , Samuel Etches , John Buckley , W . Lees , H . Brett , of 2389 ; J . Herbert Foster W . M . 1957 , Henry Smith W . M . 287 , Robert L . Bourne 2368 , Walter Brown S . D . 295 , John F . Lomas
S . D . 104 , A . N . Nield I . P . M . 320 , George Bower 295 , F . Heath 979 , S . Cotterill P . M . 533 , James William Sohole 104 , D . Wibberley 104 , William Hughes 104 , George Eaton
Shore Junior Deacon 979 , W . Collins Senior Warden 1565 , Charles Clarkson P . M . 104 , Thomas Haslam J . W . 104 , George Kitson S . D . 1116 , W . Morris J . W . 2144 , Adolphus Bode 533 , E . Morris W . M . 1565 , J .
Mountford P . M . P . P . Std . ( Staff . ) , E . H . Croydon P . P . G . J . W . ( Staff . ) , George Wildgoose I . G . 941 , Theodore Fennill W . M . 941 , James BeswickS . W . 941 , Amos Clowes J . D . 941 , Wm . Dale J . W . 941 , John W . Snape 104 , J . H . Bebbington 941 , John Kennerley 533 , W . K . Blunsum W . M . 1045 , John Hawker 1045 , Thomas Wads worth P . M .
and Secretary 297 , George Brooks S . W . 361 , Thomas C . Rigby P . M . 287 and 1055 , W . H . Pugh P . M . 336 , Jesse Tymm P . M . 366 , Wm . Twidale P . M . 267 , Alfred Frith P . M . 267 , G . W . Sidebottom 361 , Mark Stafford P . M . 3 G 1 , Wm . Williams P . M . 533 , W . Chadwick iun . W . M . 1408 ,
George Fountain J . W . 267 , Wm . Taylor J . W . 320 , Alfred Lowndes P . M . 268 , Hervey Smith P . M . 361 , James A . Walsh I . G . 2318 , Elliot A . Crompton M . M . 2368 , C . H . Wentworth Bennett , Rev . T . T . Higgins , James Crook P . M . Treasurer 320 , Geo . Sykes W . M . 320 , W . S .
Hadfield Past Master 320 , Edwin Goodwin 526 , Georgo Brotherton Worshipful Master 368 , John Boon sen . 104 , James Hudson W . M . 322 , George R . Brady P . M . 322 , Thomas Drinkwater P . M . 1166 , James Stevens W . M . 295 , Jos . J . Brunt S . W . 295 , A . Horton S . W . 322 , E . Bowler
the London Charities . Last year ' s report made reference to the now organisation which had just come into operation , and expressed the hope that the good results of that year would not only be maintained , but would even be ? titl farther stimulated aud developed . Tho hopo had beon
500 T ?« 1 , * U ., 1 ~ , „ 0 £ * 7 T TT C ! -i . L 007 TT W ~~ , 1 ., ll 322 , Frank Hulme 267 , Jos . H . Smith 287 , Henry Woodall P . M . Sec . 1126 , Charles Walkden S . D . 361 ; Alfred R . Jeffs W . M ., T . Albiston Daniel jun . S . W ., C . W . Jackson P . M ., Robert Head , I . P . M ., J . Astall , Jno . Hardy , W . T . Thompstone S . D ., John Perry J . D ., Charles R . Haddocks ,
G . W . Carter , Geo . Lockett , of 533 ; Wm . Nock , J . D ., Wm . Holloway S . W ., H . Billyard J . W ., S . Sherratt S . D ., M . S . Brickhill , R . Jackson Secretary , and Thomas Broster , of 368 ; John Booth Tyler 533 , Wm . Orrey P . M . 533 , Chas . Stoneley J . D . 267 , J . Steele Sheldon P . M . 533 , E .
Whitehurst 267 ; W . Sheldon , F . Sheriff , Geo . Ibeson W . M ., of 295 ; H . Powell Jones J . W . 1967 , John Taylor 1126 , John Plant P . M . 1126 , W . Fielding J . W . 23 G , J . O . Wylde I . P . M . 323 , C . H . Andrews W . M . 104 , John S . Law W . M . 1357 , Jaa . Worsnup P . M . 322 , Chas . E . Frederick S . W . 293 .
John Cope J . W . 293 , Charles Welch W . M . 979 , John McWhirter , W . M . 1166 , Henry Lomas IP . M . 1967 , John T . Mills S . W . 1166 , John Nicholson P . M . 322 , John C . Armitagc S . W . 322 , Ralph Edwards I . P . M . 2 G 7 , J . Fred May I . P . M . 295 , John T . Goulding S . W . 2144 , Wm . Cars-Well W . M . 267 , & c .
to The Committee of Benevolence , in their annual report , which was presented by Bro . Salmon , thanked the brethren of the Province for the munificent manner in which they had supported the committee dnring the year with respect
Prov. Grand Lodge Of Cheshire.
more than realised . At a meeting of the committee in November , in view of the Jubilee of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institntion , it was decided that the support of the Province shonld be given to that Institution at ita
Festival in February . As to the question ofthe advisability of raising a fund for providing annuities within the Province for aged Freemasons and widows , the matter was referred to the Charity Council , and the committee had reason to believe that this council would devise some
satisfactory scheme . The amount subscribed bj the different Lodges and brethren at the Festival of Aged Freemasons was the very large sum of £ 1950 . This had augmented the voting power of the Province from 900 votes last year to 2 , 530 votes this year , and was mainly
instrumental in enabling the Election Committee to elect their two aged brethren on tho list of annuitants . This splendid effort of the Lodges ancl brethren of Cheshire was so much appreciated by the committee of that Institution
that at their first meeting after the Festival they unanimously elected Brother Newhouse P . G . S . as an Honorary Vice-President of the Institntion , to mark their sense of thankfulness for his efforts on that occasion . The
committee considered that , after having made two such exertions as that of the Boys' Festival in 1891 and of the Aged Freemasons in 1892 , they should turn their attention this year to a strong effort towards the fund for providing
the means of granting annuities to the aged Freemasons and the widows of aged Freemasons belonging to the Province of Cheshire , so as to assist them until they can be elected on the funds of the London Institution .
On the motion of Bro . Salmon , seconded by Bro . Clayton P . P . G . J . W ., the report was adopted . The Provincial Grand Master ( Lord Egerton ) said that during the past year they had been called upon to sympathise with the joys of one of the rulers of the Craft ,
the Duke of Clarence , and again soon afterwards they had been called upon to sympathise with the Royal Family on the occasion of his Royal Highness ' s sudden and early death . Snch an experience they trusted might not be repeated for many years . •They trusted that the rulers of
the Craft might long hold their present positions , and that in the coming years there might be a reuewal of the prosperity which had for so many years accompanied them . The general body of Masons had also had to doplore the loss of their excellent and energetic Secretary , Colonel
Shadwell H . Clorke , and in their own Province of Cheshire , among leading brethren well known to them for many years , they earnestly deplored the death of Bros . Charles Dntton and Major Preston . Theso sad incidents apart , they hud every reason to be satisfied with the progress of
Masonry in the Province , and with tho work that had been done . It was satisfactory to find that the number of members had increased from 1 , 856 to 1 , 963 . At the beginning of the year they had 44 Lodges in Cheshire , with an average of between 40 and 50 members each , and
quite recently a now Lodge had been consecrated at Birkenhead , making up the roll of Lodges to 45 . Tho report of the Committee of Benevolence had shown that satisfactorily large sums had been raised for benevolent purposes . He thought it was very creditable to Masons
generally thafc for one of the Masonic Charities £ 67 , 000 was raised in one year , and it was no less satisfactory that out of that sum their own Province of Cheshire contributed very nearly - £ 2 , 000 . He was glad to find that the Benevolent Committee of the Province proposed to raise another
fund for the Province , They had been dealing with the question of education successfully , and they had now to deal with the question of making provision for Masons of fcho Province in their old age . Tho difficult question of making provision for men in their old age had been discussed in circles other than their own . As Masons were
all carefully selected in their several Lodges , they wero bound to regard the brethren as men whose misfortunes aud adverse circumstances , when they occurred , were due not to their own fault , but to circumstances over which they had no control . Therefore , when misfortune or old
age or sickness fell upon them , they were deserving of the consideration and support of all tho Masons in tho Province . He thought that Masons were strong enough to take care of brethren so unfortunately placed , and in order
to do so it was absolutely necessary that they should consider what was the best way of raising a fund for the support of the aged Masons in their own Province , who could not be elected upon the Central Charities in London . The formation of a fund such haa had beeu suggested was
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Prov. Grand Lodge Of Cheshire.
Barker P . P . G . P ., James Hepworth P . P . G . Steward , S . Blaokshaw P . P . G . Standard Bearer , Thomas Pattinson P . P . G . P ., Ralph Andrew P . P . G . S . D ., A . Cockayne P . P . A . D . C , Edward Furnivale P . G . Swd . Br ., J . Beaumont Piercy P . P . G . S . W . ( Staff ) , W . J . Cotsworth P . P . G .
Steward , J . H . Hordern P . P . G . Steward , A . Lawley P . P . G . A . Secretary , Robert Bebbington P . P . G . P ., R . N . Banks P . P . G . P ., Jonathan Bailey P . P . G . Steward , Walter Kenworthy P . P . G . D . D . C , James Needham P . P . G . S . D . ' ,
John W . Brooks P . P . G . Steward , Thomas Eyre Mason P . P . G . Treasurer , W . Pritchard P . P . G . Asst . Secretary , Thomas Bowers P . P . G . D . C , William Ramsden P . P . G . D ., Thomas E . Gibbon P . P . G . Std ., Charles Vickars P . P . G . Std .,
John Knott P . P . G . Steward , William Peers P . P . G . Std ., James Cookson P . P . G . T ., Simpson Booth P . P . G . P ., Sam N . Brooks P . P . G . D . D . C , F . A . Daniel P . P . G . S . B ., Thomas Knowles P . P . G . A . D . C , A . L . Broad P . P . G . S . W . ( Staff . )
Fred Broadsmith P . P . G . R ., A . Ingham P . P . G . Steward I . P . M . 2144 , George R . Brady P . P . G . S . B ., Charles Booth P . P . G . S . D ., Eustace George Parker ; Brothers Cross W . M ., Peter Hancock S . W ., R . H . Yeomans J . W ., JM Taylor Secretary , Frank W . Hulme , F . Bettley Cook I . G .,
J . E . Lowndes , Nathan Large , Robert Walmsley Organist , Robert Brown , James Earl , Thomas Hancock , Samuel Etches , John Buckley , W . Lees , H . Brett , of 2389 ; J . Herbert Foster W . M . 1957 , Henry Smith W . M . 287 , Robert L . Bourne 2368 , Walter Brown S . D . 295 , John F . Lomas
S . D . 104 , A . N . Nield I . P . M . 320 , George Bower 295 , F . Heath 979 , S . Cotterill P . M . 533 , James William Sohole 104 , D . Wibberley 104 , William Hughes 104 , George Eaton
Shore Junior Deacon 979 , W . Collins Senior Warden 1565 , Charles Clarkson P . M . 104 , Thomas Haslam J . W . 104 , George Kitson S . D . 1116 , W . Morris J . W . 2144 , Adolphus Bode 533 , E . Morris W . M . 1565 , J .
Mountford P . M . P . P . Std . ( Staff . ) , E . H . Croydon P . P . G . J . W . ( Staff . ) , George Wildgoose I . G . 941 , Theodore Fennill W . M . 941 , James BeswickS . W . 941 , Amos Clowes J . D . 941 , Wm . Dale J . W . 941 , John W . Snape 104 , J . H . Bebbington 941 , John Kennerley 533 , W . K . Blunsum W . M . 1045 , John Hawker 1045 , Thomas Wads worth P . M .
and Secretary 297 , George Brooks S . W . 361 , Thomas C . Rigby P . M . 287 and 1055 , W . H . Pugh P . M . 336 , Jesse Tymm P . M . 366 , Wm . Twidale P . M . 267 , Alfred Frith P . M . 267 , G . W . Sidebottom 361 , Mark Stafford P . M . 3 G 1 , Wm . Williams P . M . 533 , W . Chadwick iun . W . M . 1408 ,
George Fountain J . W . 267 , Wm . Taylor J . W . 320 , Alfred Lowndes P . M . 268 , Hervey Smith P . M . 361 , James A . Walsh I . G . 2318 , Elliot A . Crompton M . M . 2368 , C . H . Wentworth Bennett , Rev . T . T . Higgins , James Crook P . M . Treasurer 320 , Geo . Sykes W . M . 320 , W . S .
Hadfield Past Master 320 , Edwin Goodwin 526 , Georgo Brotherton Worshipful Master 368 , John Boon sen . 104 , James Hudson W . M . 322 , George R . Brady P . M . 322 , Thomas Drinkwater P . M . 1166 , James Stevens W . M . 295 , Jos . J . Brunt S . W . 295 , A . Horton S . W . 322 , E . Bowler
the London Charities . Last year ' s report made reference to the now organisation which had just come into operation , and expressed the hope that the good results of that year would not only be maintained , but would even be ? titl farther stimulated aud developed . Tho hopo had beon
500 T ?« 1 , * U ., 1 ~ , „ 0 £ * 7 T TT C ! -i . L 007 TT W ~~ , 1 ., ll 322 , Frank Hulme 267 , Jos . H . Smith 287 , Henry Woodall P . M . Sec . 1126 , Charles Walkden S . D . 361 ; Alfred R . Jeffs W . M ., T . Albiston Daniel jun . S . W ., C . W . Jackson P . M ., Robert Head , I . P . M ., J . Astall , Jno . Hardy , W . T . Thompstone S . D ., John Perry J . D ., Charles R . Haddocks ,
G . W . Carter , Geo . Lockett , of 533 ; Wm . Nock , J . D ., Wm . Holloway S . W ., H . Billyard J . W ., S . Sherratt S . D ., M . S . Brickhill , R . Jackson Secretary , and Thomas Broster , of 368 ; John Booth Tyler 533 , Wm . Orrey P . M . 533 , Chas . Stoneley J . D . 267 , J . Steele Sheldon P . M . 533 , E .
Whitehurst 267 ; W . Sheldon , F . Sheriff , Geo . Ibeson W . M ., of 295 ; H . Powell Jones J . W . 1967 , John Taylor 1126 , John Plant P . M . 1126 , W . Fielding J . W . 23 G , J . O . Wylde I . P . M . 323 , C . H . Andrews W . M . 104 , John S . Law W . M . 1357 , Jaa . Worsnup P . M . 322 , Chas . E . Frederick S . W . 293 .
John Cope J . W . 293 , Charles Welch W . M . 979 , John McWhirter , W . M . 1166 , Henry Lomas IP . M . 1967 , John T . Mills S . W . 1166 , John Nicholson P . M . 322 , John C . Armitagc S . W . 322 , Ralph Edwards I . P . M . 2 G 7 , J . Fred May I . P . M . 295 , John T . Goulding S . W . 2144 , Wm . Cars-Well W . M . 267 , & c .
to The Committee of Benevolence , in their annual report , which was presented by Bro . Salmon , thanked the brethren of the Province for the munificent manner in which they had supported the committee dnring the year with respect
Prov. Grand Lodge Of Cheshire.
more than realised . At a meeting of the committee in November , in view of the Jubilee of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institntion , it was decided that the support of the Province shonld be given to that Institution at ita
Festival in February . As to the question ofthe advisability of raising a fund for providing annuities within the Province for aged Freemasons and widows , the matter was referred to the Charity Council , and the committee had reason to believe that this council would devise some
satisfactory scheme . The amount subscribed bj the different Lodges and brethren at the Festival of Aged Freemasons was the very large sum of £ 1950 . This had augmented the voting power of the Province from 900 votes last year to 2 , 530 votes this year , and was mainly
instrumental in enabling the Election Committee to elect their two aged brethren on tho list of annuitants . This splendid effort of the Lodges ancl brethren of Cheshire was so much appreciated by the committee of that Institution
that at their first meeting after the Festival they unanimously elected Brother Newhouse P . G . S . as an Honorary Vice-President of the Institntion , to mark their sense of thankfulness for his efforts on that occasion . The
committee considered that , after having made two such exertions as that of the Boys' Festival in 1891 and of the Aged Freemasons in 1892 , they should turn their attention this year to a strong effort towards the fund for providing
the means of granting annuities to the aged Freemasons and the widows of aged Freemasons belonging to the Province of Cheshire , so as to assist them until they can be elected on the funds of the London Institution .
On the motion of Bro . Salmon , seconded by Bro . Clayton P . P . G . J . W ., the report was adopted . The Provincial Grand Master ( Lord Egerton ) said that during the past year they had been called upon to sympathise with the joys of one of the rulers of the Craft ,
the Duke of Clarence , and again soon afterwards they had been called upon to sympathise with the Royal Family on the occasion of his Royal Highness ' s sudden and early death . Snch an experience they trusted might not be repeated for many years . •They trusted that the rulers of
the Craft might long hold their present positions , and that in the coming years there might be a reuewal of the prosperity which had for so many years accompanied them . The general body of Masons had also had to doplore the loss of their excellent and energetic Secretary , Colonel
Shadwell H . Clorke , and in their own Province of Cheshire , among leading brethren well known to them for many years , they earnestly deplored the death of Bros . Charles Dntton and Major Preston . Theso sad incidents apart , they hud every reason to be satisfied with the progress of
Masonry in the Province , and with tho work that had been done . It was satisfactory to find that the number of members had increased from 1 , 856 to 1 , 963 . At the beginning of the year they had 44 Lodges in Cheshire , with an average of between 40 and 50 members each , and
quite recently a now Lodge had been consecrated at Birkenhead , making up the roll of Lodges to 45 . Tho report of the Committee of Benevolence had shown that satisfactorily large sums had been raised for benevolent purposes . He thought it was very creditable to Masons
generally thafc for one of the Masonic Charities £ 67 , 000 was raised in one year , and it was no less satisfactory that out of that sum their own Province of Cheshire contributed very nearly - £ 2 , 000 . He was glad to find that the Benevolent Committee of the Province proposed to raise another
fund for the Province , They had been dealing with the question of education successfully , and they had now to deal with the question of making provision for Masons of fcho Province in their old age . Tho difficult question of making provision for men in their old age had been discussed in circles other than their own . As Masons were
all carefully selected in their several Lodges , they wero bound to regard the brethren as men whose misfortunes aud adverse circumstances , when they occurred , were due not to their own fault , but to circumstances over which they had no control . Therefore , when misfortune or old
age or sickness fell upon them , they were deserving of the consideration and support of all tho Masons in tho Province . He thought that Masons were strong enough to take care of brethren so unfortunately placed , and in order
to do so it was absolutely necessary that they should consider what was the best way of raising a fund for the support of the aged Masons in their own Province , who could not be elected upon the Central Charities in London . The formation of a fund such haa had beeu suggested was