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Notices Of Eminent Members Of The Canongate Kilwinning Lodge Of Scotland.
COLONEL JOHN YOUNG . Pie held die prominent place of Grand Master Depute , from the year 1736 , to the year 1752 . After his retirement from Grand Lodge , he attached himself to the Canongate Kilwinning , in 1755 . He was originally received as a Mason in the Kilwinning Scot ' s Arms , a Lodge long ago defunct . Brother Young held also the dignity of Provincial Master over the Scottish Lodges in America and the AVest Indies .
Succeeding the AVorshipful Brother Lumisdaine , was DAVID Ross , of Inverchashley , advocate , who was elected to the chair in June , 1757 . He was admitted a Mason in 1755 . At the Grancl Lodge election , November , 1757 , he was chosen to the post of Senior Grand AVarden , holding the same during two years . His avocations as a pleader at the Scottish bar , induced him to resign the chair at the expiration of a year . He finally rose to be one of the Lords of Session under the title of Lord Ankerville .
Brother Ross received into Masonery , during his Mastership , the celebrated James Burnet , Lord Monboddo , who was initiated November 29 , 1757 , being then about forty-three years of age . His character is thus given b y Mr . Tytler : — "Lord Monboddo was a man of great worth , honour , and moral rectitude , but of much singularity of manner and character . Yet with all his eccentricities of opinion , his writings display great eruditionand a just and excellent spirit of criticism . He
, was affectionate , friendly and social , ancl fond of convivial intercourse ; and it was his daily custom to unbend himself after his professional labours amidst a select party of literary friends to an early supper . " One of the eccentricities of this able judge and acute metaphysician was the opinion that the human species were originally endowed with tails , an hypothesis which has entailed some ridicule upon his memory . He died in 1799 .
On the retirement of Brother Ross from the chair , AVALTER STEWART , of Stewart Plall , advocate , was elected Master , June 24 , 1758 . He became a Mason , December 3 , 1755 . AVhile Master of the Lodge he was appointed Senior AVarden in Grand Lodge , remaining in that office two years from his election in 1759 . Brother Stewart initiated , among others , Sin , AVILLIAM FORBES , of Pitsligo , Bart ., one of the brightest names that adorn the Lodge annals . This eminent man , the
founder of the banking establishment that bears his name , was inducted into the Masonic mysteries in December , 1759 . His enlarged and penetrating spirit at once perceived the beauty and utility of a system based , like that of Freemasonry , upon the purest principles of virtue ancl philanthropy ; and accordingly , from the moment of his initiation , he sought to follow out in practice those principles which as a Mason he had professed ; and this he manifested throughout the whole of his future life and actions—illustrating his faith , not merely in his intercourse with those of the immediate Masonic household , but also in his relation with the common brotherhood of the human race .
Sir AVilliam Forbes served his first apprenticeship to office in 1761 , being then appointed to the post of Junior AVarden of the Lodge ; in the following year he was promoted to that of Senior AA arden . The latter oflice he faithfully discharged for the space of three successive years . His position as AVarden , according to the Scottish constitutions , gave him a seat as representative in Grand Lodge ; and in November , 1765 , he was raised to the office of Junior Grand AVarden in that assembly , the Right Hon . James Stuart , Lord Provost of Edinburgh ,
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Notices Of Eminent Members Of The Canongate Kilwinning Lodge Of Scotland.
COLONEL JOHN YOUNG . Pie held die prominent place of Grand Master Depute , from the year 1736 , to the year 1752 . After his retirement from Grand Lodge , he attached himself to the Canongate Kilwinning , in 1755 . He was originally received as a Mason in the Kilwinning Scot ' s Arms , a Lodge long ago defunct . Brother Young held also the dignity of Provincial Master over the Scottish Lodges in America and the AVest Indies .
Succeeding the AVorshipful Brother Lumisdaine , was DAVID Ross , of Inverchashley , advocate , who was elected to the chair in June , 1757 . He was admitted a Mason in 1755 . At the Grancl Lodge election , November , 1757 , he was chosen to the post of Senior Grand AVarden , holding the same during two years . His avocations as a pleader at the Scottish bar , induced him to resign the chair at the expiration of a year . He finally rose to be one of the Lords of Session under the title of Lord Ankerville .
Brother Ross received into Masonery , during his Mastership , the celebrated James Burnet , Lord Monboddo , who was initiated November 29 , 1757 , being then about forty-three years of age . His character is thus given b y Mr . Tytler : — "Lord Monboddo was a man of great worth , honour , and moral rectitude , but of much singularity of manner and character . Yet with all his eccentricities of opinion , his writings display great eruditionand a just and excellent spirit of criticism . He
, was affectionate , friendly and social , ancl fond of convivial intercourse ; and it was his daily custom to unbend himself after his professional labours amidst a select party of literary friends to an early supper . " One of the eccentricities of this able judge and acute metaphysician was the opinion that the human species were originally endowed with tails , an hypothesis which has entailed some ridicule upon his memory . He died in 1799 .
On the retirement of Brother Ross from the chair , AVALTER STEWART , of Stewart Plall , advocate , was elected Master , June 24 , 1758 . He became a Mason , December 3 , 1755 . AVhile Master of the Lodge he was appointed Senior AVarden in Grand Lodge , remaining in that office two years from his election in 1759 . Brother Stewart initiated , among others , Sin , AVILLIAM FORBES , of Pitsligo , Bart ., one of the brightest names that adorn the Lodge annals . This eminent man , the
founder of the banking establishment that bears his name , was inducted into the Masonic mysteries in December , 1759 . His enlarged and penetrating spirit at once perceived the beauty and utility of a system based , like that of Freemasonry , upon the purest principles of virtue ancl philanthropy ; and accordingly , from the moment of his initiation , he sought to follow out in practice those principles which as a Mason he had professed ; and this he manifested throughout the whole of his future life and actions—illustrating his faith , not merely in his intercourse with those of the immediate Masonic household , but also in his relation with the common brotherhood of the human race .
Sir AVilliam Forbes served his first apprenticeship to office in 1761 , being then appointed to the post of Junior AVarden of the Lodge ; in the following year he was promoted to that of Senior AA arden . The latter oflice he faithfully discharged for the space of three successive years . His position as AVarden , according to the Scottish constitutions , gave him a seat as representative in Grand Lodge ; and in November , 1765 , he was raised to the office of Junior Grand AVarden in that assembly , the Right Hon . James Stuart , Lord Provost of Edinburgh ,