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Bro . AUGUSTUS T . DAY , P . M . 58 , President of the Board of Grand Stewards , in response , said it gave him great pleasure to return thanks for the kind way in which the toast had been given and received . The Grand Stewards' year of office had been a very pleasant one . They had endeavoured during that year to perform their duty . They had done their work , and , he hoped , to the satisfaction of Grand Lodge . Now , the object

for which they came into existence was nearly ended , and it was very gratifying to them to feel that the way they had carried out their duties had met with the approbation of his lordship and the brethren assembled . The brethren then adjourned to the Temple , where a concert was given , in which , under the direction of Bro . E . M . Lott , Mus . Doc , P . G . Org .,

Miss Margaret Hoare , Miss Madeline Hardy , Miss Maud Cameron , Madame Pauline Featherby-Capel , Madame Lytton , Miss Minnie Kirton , Bro . John Probert , Bro . Arthur Weston , Bro . Reginald Groome , Bro Arthur Cranch , Bro . T . Tremere , and Bro . Franklin Clive took part . Bro . G . T . Miles was harpist , and Bro . James Kift accompanist .

Th *; following is a list of the . Grand Stewards who provided the evening's entertainment : —Bros . Augustus T . Day . 5 8 , President ; George Hughes , 259 , Treasurer ; Geo . Rattcliff Steel , 1 , Hon . Sec . ; J . A . tiatley , 2 ; C . B . Cousens , 4 ; W . J . Ford , 5 ; B . de B . Lopez , 6 ; F . T . Rushton , 8 ; Edgar Figgess , 14 ; R . C . Grant , 21 ; T . W . Chard Leuty , 23 ; J . W . Robinson , 26 ; E . Terry , 29 ; G . Pitt Lewis , Q . C , M . P ., 46 ; A . S . Josling , 60 ; T . A . Logan , 91 ; H . Sutherland , M . D ., 99 ; and C . Barry , 197 .

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NEW GRAND OFFICERS .

We have much pleasure in appending particulars of the Masonic careers of the newly-invested Grand Officers . In the case of someof them we are able to furnish pen-and-ink portraits , and we trust we shall be in a position to complete the latter series in our issue of next week .

GRAND SENIOR WARDEN . BRO . LORD HERSCHELL , Lord Chancellor of England , has played a serviceable part in Masonry , though his connection with the Order has been comparatively brief . His lordship was among the earliest initiates in the Northern Bar Lodge , No . 1610 , a lodge whose membership is strictly limited to barristers of the old Northern Circuit , or of one or other of its

present sub-divisions . Having filled the minor offices , and risen to that of Warden , he was in 1 SS 2 elected to the W . Mastership . He is also a Life Governo- of the Boys' School , and whenever an opportunity presents itself will no doubt extend to our other Institutions that sympathy and support he has already evinced towards the School at Wood Green . His lordship's appointment as Grand Senior Warden will be received with satisfaction , not only by his brother members of No . 1610 , and from the distinction he

has achieved in lodge , but also from the fact that this is the first occasion on which Grand Lodge honours have been conferred on the highest legal functionary in the United Kingdom . The Grand Lodge of Ireland can boast of numbering an Archbishop among its Grand Officers , but his Grace of Dublin had held office for many years previously as Bishop ofMeath . There is , however , no earlier instance that we are acquainted with of a Lord Chancellor being appointed to Grand Office during the term of his Chancellorship .

GRAND JUNIOR WARDEN . BRO . CAPTAIN LORD CHARLES BERESI-ORD , R . N ., M . P ., was initiated in the Robert Burns Lofge of Australia , No . 817 , Sydney , N . S . W ., in November , 1870 ; but he was not passed and raised till his return to England , when he joined the Metham Lodge , No . 1205 , East Stonehouse , May , 1873 , and in 1875 rose to the Master's chair , his zeal for the Craft being further

recognised by his appointment as Prov . G . S . Warden of Devonshire . Early in 1881 . when the Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar Lodge , No . 1903 , Portsmouth , was constituted , his lordship , who had taken an active part in its establishment , was installed as its first W . M . ; butsince then the exigencies of naval service abroad have prevented him being as active in the performance of his Masonic duties as he would probably have desired . His lordship

whenever he has had a chance has taken a deep interest in our proceedings . He has long been an annual subscriber to the Male Fund of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and there is no more popular brother or more genial exponent of our principles in any lodge in London , the country , or the colonies , so that his selection to fill the chair of Grand Junior Warden has been universally welcomed .

GRAND CHAPLAINS . BRO . THE REV . J AMES NELSON PALMER , M . A ., was initiated into Freemasonry when at St . John's College , Oxford , in 1859 , in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , and in 1865 was appointed Prov . Grand Chaplain of Oxfordshire by the then Prov . Grand Master , Bro . H . Atkins Bowyer . Having subsequently joined the Ryde Lodge , No . 698 , Ryde , Isle of Wight , he was elected and installed its W . M . in 1869 , and the following year was

appointed Prov . G . S . W . of Hants and the Isle of Wight . In 1880 he filled the Master ' s chair in the Westminster and Keystone Lodge , No . 10 , having been elected a joining member in 1869 . and in this , as in the Ryde Lodge , has held , or holds , the office of Chaplain . He was exalted to the Royal Arch Degree in the East Medina Chapter , No . 175 , Ryde , and successively occupied the chairs of J ., H ., and M . E . Z ., his services being further

recognised in 188 3 by his appointment to the Third Principal ' s chair in the Prov . Grand Chapter of Hants and the Isle of Wight . He was advanced to the Mark Degree in April , 1883 , in the Carnarvon Lodge , No . 7 , wasa petitioner for , and is present W . M . of , the William Hickman Lodge , No . 320 , Sandown , and was a petitioner for the Onslow Lodge , No . 361 , consecrated in November last by M . W . Bro . the Earl of Kintore , G . M . M . M . of

England . He has been installed a Knight of the Order of the Temple , and was E . P . of the Royal Naval Preceptory , No . 2 , Portsmouth , in 1885 ; while in the Ancient and Accepted Rite he is a member and officer of the Vectis Chapter Rose Croix , No . 99 , Ryde . He has , lastly , qualified as a Life Governor of the Girls' School and Vice-President of the Boys' School ,

having also served three times as Steward for the former Institution and five times for the latter . A record such as this is one of which any brother might be proud , and we imagine there will be few , if any , to question the justice of Bro . Palmer's appointment to one of the Grand Chaplaincies for the year . BRO . THE REV . W . MORTIMER HEATH , M . A ., is one of the most distinguished members of the Fraternity in Dorsetshire , in which he may be

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said to have passed almost the whole of his Masonic career , and to which it is beyond question that the bulk of his services , especially in the Mark

Degree , has been rendered . He was initiated in 1863 in the St . Cuthberga Lodge , No . 622 , Wimborne , was elected to the chair of W . M . in 186 7 , and is at the present

time Chaplain of the lodge . He is also a joining member of the Elias de Derham Lodge , No . 5 86 , Salisbury , and honorary member of several lodges in Dorset , Wilts , and Hants . In the

years 1864 and 1865 he held the office of Prov . G . Chap , of Dorsetshire , and five years later had conferred upon him the still higher honour of Prov . G . S . W . He was exalted in Chapter No . 622 in 1864 , and in 1871 was

installed M . E . Z ., a position he has likewise filled in two other chapters , namely , the Portland , No . 1037 ,

Portland , and the Elias de Derham , No . 586 , Salisbury . In his Provincial Grand Chapter he has been successively invested as Prov . G . Registrar ( 1867 ) , Prov . G . S . N . ( 1870 ) , Prov . G . J . ( 1875 ) , and Prov * G-H . ( 1882 ) , and at the present time is Prov . G . Treasurer . It is , however , with the Mark Degree that his name and fame are chiefly associated . He was advanced in the Economy Lodge , No . 52 , Winchester , on the oth June , 1 S 70 , and in

the November following joined the St . Cuthberga , No . 99 , Wimborne , in which he soon made his way to the front , being installed in the chair of A . in 1 S 72 ; he is now its Treasurer . He is also a joining member of the Unity , No . 132 , Poole , and the Portland , No . 133 , Portland , having been elected into the former in 1880 , and into the latter in 1882 . In the meantime , however , Bro . Heath ' s merits had been recognised at headquarters , and in 1872

he was appointed Grand Chaplain of the Mark Grand Lodge . Seven years later , Bro . Montague J . Guest , Prov . G . M . M . of Dorsetshire , selected him for the important position of Deputy , and on that brother's retirement from the P . G . Mastership of the Degree in 1882 , Lord Henniker , the then Grand Master of the Mark , appointed him to the vacant office for the usual term of three years , his reappointment for a further period of like duration having

been made last year . In Templar Masonry Bro . Heath is Chaplain of the All Souls' Preceptory , No . 31 , Weymouth , and Sub-Marshal in the Prov . Priory of Dorsetshire ; while in the Ancient and Accepted Rite he is a Past M . W . S . of the St . Leonard Chapier . Rose Croix , No . 39 , Blandford . As regards our Institutions , he has been a consistent and regular supporter of them all , his name figuring among the annual subscribers to both Schools and the Widows' Fund of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution ; while

he has constituted his daughter a Life Subscriber of the Boys' . Moreover , in 1872—the year of his Mark Grand Chaplaincy—he served as' Steward at the Mark Benevolent Fund Festival , and is a Lite Subscriber of the Dorsetshire Masonic Charitable Association . Such is our rev . brother ' s record , and the Craft generally , but , above all , his Dorset brethren , to whom he is known so intimately , and by whom he is respected so greatly , will realise that in this instance also honour has been given to whom honour is due .

GRAND TREASURER . BRO . D . P . CAMA , it will be remembered , was elected to this office at the March Communication of Grand Lodge by an overwhelming majority of Votes . We have , however , already given full particulars of his services in connection with his candidature for this office , and the Consecration of the Cama Lodge , No . 2105 . We need not , therefore , repeat ourselves on this occasion .

GRAND SENIOR DEACONS . BRO . SIR BRUCE M . SETON , BART ., was initiated in the Lodge of Friendship , No . 6 , in 1870 , and having filled the several offices up to and inclusive of that of Senior Warden was elected and re-elected W . M . in 1884 and 1885 respectively . He served as Grand Steward in 1874-5 , and acted in that capacity on the occasion of the installation of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales as Grand Master in 1875 . He is also on the Board of General

Purposes for the current year , and a member of the United Lodge , No . 1629 , having been elected in 1885 . He is a Royal Arch Mason , having been , exalted in the Friendship Chapter , No . 6 , in June , 1871 , and a member of the Studholme Chapter , Rose Croix , No . 65 , as well as a G . E . K ., K . H ., 30 th Degree in the Ancient and Accepted Rite . Last , but not least , he has qualified as a Life Governor of both our Schools , and has served once for each of them as Festival Steward .

Bro . SAMUEL POPE , who was called to the bar on 7 th June , 1858 , and raised to the dignity of a Queen ' s Counsel in 1869 , was a member

ded the Northern Bar Lodge , No . 1610 , its membership being confined to barristers who had been members of

the old circuit or were attached to either of the new divisions . In this lodge of which the present Lord High Chancellor , Mr . Justice Cave , and other distinguished lawyers are members ,

of the old Northern Circuit , and on its division into Northern and North Eastern , several zealous brethren foun-