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President of thc O . U . B . O . ; the Earl of Mar and Kellie , Past G . Master Mason of Scotland ; and Bro . Blandy-Jenkins , twice W . M . of the Abbey Lodge , No . 9-1-5 , Abingdon , a Past P . G . S . AV . of Berks and Bucks , and High Sheriff of Berks in 186 ( 5 . Bro . T . P . Halsey , ALP ., who has so ably governed the little

Province of Herts as its P . G . M . since 1873 , heads the list of I 8 ( il . initiates , and among his contemporaries wero the late Bro . H . Shutc , -a joining member of the lodge , and P . G . M . of Bristol , IHl-o-oli ; AV . E . Gumbletoii , P . G . D . of England , * thc Bev . A . B . " . Wilberforce , one of the Canons of AVmchester ; Henrv

Siitherland , M . I ) ., author of a . useful little , work "Notes on the History of Ereemasonry ; " the Kev . li . VV . Burnaby , brother of I hat gallant soldier and courteous gentleman , the late Bro . Col . Burnaby * and the Earl of Kibnorey , a prominent Irish Templar Mason . Sir John G . S . Sebright , Bart ., an able member of the

Consular Service , and the Bev . 0 . AV . Spencer-Stanhope , of Merton , a Past G . Chaplain of England , Past D . P . G . M . of Cheshire , and a prominent Mark Mason , were among the initiates of 18 ( i 2 . Among those of the year following will be found Lord Hothfield , previously Sir H . J . Tufton , High Sheriff

successively of Westmoreland and Kent , and present Lord-Lieutenant of the former county , * the Earl of Bective , M . P ., Prov . G . Master of Cumberland and Westmoreland , Past Grand . Mark Master Alason of England and AVales , Past G . Sovereign of the Bed Cross of Constantine , Hon . President of the

Hosicrucian Society of England , and one of our foremost practical and scientific •agriculturists * Bro . Leopold G . Gordon liobbiiis , I . P . AL AVestiniiistor and Keystone Lodge ; Jules T . T . Hue , P . Prov . G . S . AV . Oxon , and Teacher of French in the University ; Sir D . AV . Lcgard , and the Hon . A . G .

Gathome-Hardv , a , son of Viscount Cranbrooke ; Bro . the liev . 0 . Baikes Davy ' of Balliol , Past G . Chaplain and Past Prov . G . M . M . M . of Gloucestershire , being a joining member . In 1864 , the Rev . J . S . Brownrigg , a Past Grand Chaplain anel D . P . G . M . Berks and Bucks , became as AV . M . of the Isaac Newton University Lodge ,

-No . Hoi ) , Cambridge , e , o officio , un lionorari * member , and Lord llcadley was initiated ; in 1865 , the Earl of Jersey , Past G . S . Warden , and now P . G . Master of Oxfordshire , as well as Prov . ( J . Alark AIaster Berks and Oxon , and one of the hon , A icc-Presidents of the Bosicrueian Society of England , than whom it is probable

thc Grand Master conld not havo appointed a worthier to succeed the late Dukeof Albany as ruler ofthe province . Then follow in 1866 , Earl Percy , P . G . M . Northumberland and Past G . M . of the Alark Degree ; in 1867 , the Earl of Dciitoughniore , P . G . Warden of Kngland and Past Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies ;

W . C . Borlase , ALP ., Past P . G . S . W . Cornwall ; the Hon . H . S . Northcote , ALP ., second sou of the Earl of lddesleigh ; the Hon . A . G . Yorke , one of the late Duke of Albany ' s Equerries and a son of the Karl of Hardwicke , P . G . M . Cambridgeshire ; Lord Balfour of Burleigh , G . S . W . of England in J 87 * " > aud Substitute

G . M . Scotland 1875 ; and Sir John Conwav , Bart . ; and in 1 . 868 , W . E . Briggs , ex-M . P . for Blackburn , and thc Bev . 11 . AV . Al . Pope , D . Master to the late Duke of Albany when AV . M . in

1876 , the liev . A . Bruce Fraser , a Past G . Chaplain , becoming nx-oljicio an honorary member as AV . M . Isaac Newton University Lotlge . SIXTH DKCADK .

As we approach the end of the Register , there will be fewer brethren for ine to enumerate , the term of their connection with KYeeinasonrv having been , except in rare cases , too short to

allow of their having attained to positions of exceptional distinction , either in the Masonic or profane world . But the men are there , and the distinctions will come , if only they will follow in the footsteps of their predecessors . Yet tliere are one or two

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names and circumstances which place this Decade on a higher level than the five which preceded it . A joining member in the person of the Heir Apparent to the crown of the United Kingdom , and au initiate iu the person of his youngest brother , the late lamented Duke of Albany , arc but seldom met with

even-in the Registers of our oldest lodges . But they are on the Apollo Register , the Prince of Wales , who a few years previously hacl been initiated into Freemasonry at Stockholm by the late King of Sweden , and who at the time was AV . M . of the Prince of Wales Lodge , No . " 259 , having been elected on the - "JOth April ,

18 /* 2 , and Prince Leopold , afterwards Duke of Albany , having , on tho proposition of his brother , seconded by the W . AL , Bro . F . P . Morrell , of St . John ' s , now one of the University Coroners , been elected and initiated on the 1 st May , 1874 . Both these illustrious brethren were elected to the chair of thc lodge , the

Princeof AVales in 187 * 1 , with Bro . Reginald Bird , now i ) . \\ G . AL , as his Deputy , and Prince Leopold iu 1870 , having previously served as S . AV . in the third Mastership of Bro . the Bev . H . A . Pickard , ou whom devolved the unusual honour of installing His Royal Highness in the chair of K . S . This occurred ou

the 2 'jrd February , and the day following , the Prince , in the Sheldonian Theatre—a building , by the way . which was erected from the designs of the great Sir Christopher Wren , traditionally the last Grand Master of Masons before the 1717 epoch—in the presence of one of the most distinguished gatherings of

. Masons ever held in the provinces , was ceremoniously installed Prov . Grand AIaster of Oxfordshire by the Deputy Grand AIaster of England , Lord Skelmersdale , now the Earl of Lathoni .

Of his late Royal Higbness ' s services in this position it is unnecessary I should speak here , * they are too well known to the general bocly of English Freemasons , and by none are they so keenly remembered as bv thc brethren of Oxfordshire .

Of thc other brethren whom it will bc well to enumerate there is firstly the late Bro . Captain G . Fead Lainert of Worcester , a joining member of the year 1865 , who was W . AI . of the lodge in 1869—the year of its jubilee celebration—and concurrently G . S . Warden of the province ; F . P . Alorrcll , G . J . D .

1875 ; and Sir T . 0 . C . AVestern , Bart ., both initiated in 1870 ; Aretas Akers-Douglas , M . P ., present Patronage Secretary of the Treasury , and the Earl of Onslow , G . S . W . in " 1880 , initiated in 1871 ; and Bro . W . A . Burdett-Coutts , husband of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts , and the Earl of Antrim , who were made Alasons

in 1872 . Bro . H . OfMoy AYiikeman joined the lodge in 187 o , and in 1874 Sir li . H . Collins , Comptroller of the Household to the late Duke of Albany ; L . F . B . Dykes , D . P . G . AJ . Cumberland and AVestmoreland ; and AV . Hume Long , ALP ., P . P . G . J . AV . Wiltshire , were initiated , while Lord Brooke , P . G . AI . Essex ,

became a joining member , having been initiated in the Churchill Lodge , No . 478 , Oxford . Bros . F . Oscar AVilde , of Magdalen , the apostle of ajstheticisni , and AV . H . Grenfell , ALP ., were among the initiates of 1875 , and Lord Ramsay , now Karl of Dalhousie , and Bro . iEneas J . Alclntyre , P . G . AV * who , as Grand

Registrar , hacl charge of the province for some some years , were elected joining members . In 1877 were initiated Sir J . A . Hanhaiu , Bart . ; the Hon . E . Knatchbull-Hugessen , eldest son and heir of Lord Brabourne , a former initiate of the lodge ; and Bro . E . L . Hawkins , of Alerton , P . Prov . G . R . Oxon , and author of "Freemasonry in Oxfordshire . "

SKVENTH DJ- 'CAUE . Three years must still elapse ere the seventh subdivision of this Register is completed , but during the seven that have run their course , there is the same array as heretofore of brethren from whom , as necessity arises , the foremost ranks of Alasonry

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