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three weeks since was installed first W . Master of the newly-constituted Euston Lodge , No . 399 , of Mark Master Masons , of which he is a founder in conjunction with Bros . Edgar Baylis , the Earl of Euston , Major A . B . Cook , and others . He has served two Stewardships , including the

Centenary , for the Girls School , and was President of the Board of Stewards at the Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution in February , having at the same time constituted himself a Life Governor of both these Charities .

Bro . Alderman Sir POLYDORE DE KEYSER , Knt , was initiated on the 9 th May , 1862 , in the Emulation Lodge , No . 21 , and in 186 S , being at the time member of the ist Surrey Rifle Volunteers , he assisted in founding the Macdonald Lodge , No . 1216 , which is held at the headquarters of that regiment in Camberwell , and is for the most part limited to its officers and members .

Some years later he joined the Alliance Lodge , No . 1827 , founded in 18 79 for brethren connected with the Corporation of London , the St . Dunstan ' s Lodge , No . 1589 , and the Anglo-American Lodge , No . 2191 . Last year he was installed W . Master of his mother lodge , and as at the time he had the honour of being the Chief Magistrate of the City , the event was

celebrated with more than usual eclat . It was also during his joint tenure of the Mastership and the Lord Mayoralty that he was invited to lay the foundation stone of the technical schools about to be erected in the thriving town of Stockport , the important ceremony being carried out by

our respected brother , assisted by the Prov . G . Officers of Cheshire , with conspicuous success . Bro . De Keyser was exalted in the Fidelity Chapter , No . 3 , in 1863 , and in 186 9 filled the office of Scribe N . He has also served sundry Festival Stewardships for the Schools , and has constituted himself a Life-Governor of them both .

JUNIOR GRAND DEACONS . Bro . Colonel ADDISON POTTER , C . B ., has taken an active interest in the proceedings of our Society from the very outset of his career . He was initiated in the Tyne Lodge , No . 991 , Willington Quay , in 1871 , and has twice presided as W . M ., viz ., in 1871 and 1874 . He joined the

Northumberland Lodge , No . 685 , Newcastle-on-tyne , in 1871 , and ranks among its most efficient Past Masters . After holding sundry minor offices in the Prov . G . Lodge of Northumberland , he was appointed in 1881 Prov . S . G . Warden . He was exalted in the De Swinburne R . A . Chapter , No . 24 , Newcastle-on-Tyne , in 1871 , was one of the founders of the Tyne Chapter ,

No , 991 , and of the Northumberland Chapter , No . 685 , and is a P . Z . of both of them . In 1881 he was appointed Grand Superintendent of Northumberland in succession to Comp . Cockroft . He was advanced to the Mark Degree in the Northumberland and Berwick-on-Tweed ( T . I . ) Lodge , and was founder and W . M . of the Tristram Lodge , No . 346 ,

Newcastle-on-Tyne , in 1881 , and in the same year , on the occasion of the Prince of Wales being installed Grand Mark Master Mason of England and Wales , he had the honour of being appointed and invested by his Royal Highness as

Grand Master Overseer . Col . Potter , is a Life-Governor of all our Institutions , and has served two Stewardships—one of them being for the Centenary Festival—for the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , once for the Boys' School , and once for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution .

Bro . CHARLES CHESTON CHESTON was initiated in the Marquis of Dalhousie Lodge , No . 1159 , and was in regular course elected to the chair of Master . He was for a time a member of the Royal Somerset House and Inverness , No . 4 , and in 1880 represented the Shakespeare Lodge , No . 99 , of which he is a Past Master , as a Grand Steward , and acted as

Treasurer of the Board . Last year he was a founder and first S . W . of the Tyssen-Amherst Lodge , No . 2242 , and will be installed its W . M . on Monday , the 6 th prox . He was exalted in the Bard of Avon Chapter , No . 778 , Hampton , and assisted in founding the Marquis of Dalhousie Chapter , No . 1159 , of which he is a P . Z . and the present Treasurer . In

addition , he is a Past M . VV . S . of the Bard of Avon Chapter of Rose Croix , No . 44 , and a Past Preceptor of the Bard of Avon Preceptory of Knights Templar . Lastly , he is a Vice-President , and has served three Stewardships—of which one was at the Centenary Festival—for the Girls ' School , and is a Life-Governor of the Boys' School and Benevolent Institution , for both of which he has given his services as Steward .

DEPUTY GRAND DIRECTOR OF CEREMONIES . Bro . CHARLES BELTON , F . R . G . S ., who has just been appointed to the comparatively new office of Dep . G . Dir . of Cers ., has a long and varied record , extending throughout nearly the whole of the different branches and systems of modern Masonry , as well as to the Institutions associated

with it . He was initiated in the Mount Moriah Lodge , No . 34 , in 1878 , and besides being a Past Master and Dir . of Cers . of the Lodge of Honour and Generosity , No . 165 , and the Royal Alfred Lodge , No . 777 , Guildford , is Secretary of Grand Masters' Lodge , No . 1 , which he joined in 1883 , and Treasurer of the Shadwell Clerke Lodge , No . 1910 . He is a Past

Prov . S . G . W . of Surrey , and is founder and first W . M . of the Dene Lodge , No . 2228 , Cookham , Berks . In Royal Arch Masonry he is founder and Scribe E . of Grand Masters' Chapter , No . 1 , and founder and P . Z . of the Royal Naval Chapter , No . 59 , and a member of the Orpheus Chapter , No . 1706 . In the Mark Degree he ranks as P . M ., having filled the office

of W . M . in the Percy Lodge , No . 114 , in the years 1883 and 1884 , and on the occasion of the Queen ' s Jubilee had the honour of being appointed a Past Grand Master Overseer . He was VV . M . of the Stewart Council in 188 7 , and is a P . S . G . W . in the Allied Masonic Degrees ; the E . P . of the Harcourt Preceptory , and Past Prov . G . Officer of the Provincial Priory of Kent and

Surrey in the Order of the Temple ; Prov . Grand Treasurer of the Royal Order of Scotland ; a member of the Mount Calvary Rose Croix Chapter , and the Adoniram Chapter , and has taken the 30 ° in the Ancient and Accepted Rite . He has served as Vice-President of the Board of General Purposes for the last two years , and is a Vice-Patron of our three Charitable

Institutions , for which at different times he has served no less than 21 Stewardships , while for some time past he has been a member of the House Committee of the Royal Masonic Institution lor Boys . In addition , he is a Vice President of the Mark Benevolent Fund , and has served four

Stewardships on its behalf . Thus Bro . Belton has done good service both in London and the Provinces , on the Board of General Purposes , and for our Institutions , and he now has the highest reward within the reach of brethren , namely , the much coveted purple of United Grand Lodge .

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ASSISTANT GRAND DIRECTOR OF CEREMONIES . Bro . G . H . HAYDON , who has received the office of Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies in recognition of his long and meritorious services to the Craft , obtained his first insight into our mysteries under the banner of the Union Lodge , No . 444 , Starcross , Devonshire , in the year 18 51 , Nine years later he joined the Old Union Lodge , No . 46 , a Red Apron

lodge , which he has since had the honour of representing as a Grand Steward . In 1875 he assisted in founding the Lodge of Loyalty and Charity , No . 1584 , and has acted as its Treasurer since 1882 . He was exalted in the St . George ' s and Corner Stone Chapter , No . 5 , in 1864 , and has twice filled the chair of M . E . Z ., namely , in 1881 and 1884 . He has served as Steward for and is a Life-Governor of the Girls' School .

GRAND SWORD BEARER . Bro . E . MONTEUUIS was initiated in the Tuscan Lodge , No . 14 , in 1875 , and having represented it on the Board of Grand Stewards in 1881 , was elected and installed W . M . the following year . He was one of the founders and first S . W . of the lodge La France , No . 2060 , a lodge which

was constituted in 1884 for the especial purpose of enabling brethren of French nationality to pursue Masonry according to the system which prevails in England , and on his election to the chair in the second year of its existence , Bro . Monteuuis performed the various ceremonies as provided in our ritual in the French language . Last year he figured for the second

time in the character of founder , the lodge in this case being the Argonauts , No . 2243 , for boating men , and it must be admitted that a worthier representative of the rowing fraternity could not have been chosen to preside over the new lodge as its first Master than our respected brother . In 1886 , and again last year , he was elected to serve on the Board of Genera !

Purposes . In the Royal Arch Degree he is a P . Z . of the British Chapter , No . 8 , and Z . Designate of the La France Chapter , No . 2060 , for which a petition has been already addressed to his Royal Highness the Grand Z ., and the working in which will be carried out in French , Bro . Monteuuis having already prepared for himself a version of the ritual in that

language . In Templar Masonry he ranks as P . E . P . of the Harcourt Preceptory , No . 74 , Richmond , and is Past Prov . G . Sub-Marshal of the Provincial Priory of Kent and Surrey . He has also been perfected a Rose Croix Mason in the Metropolitan Chapter , No . 1 , of that degree in the A . and A . Rite system , and by and bye , no doubt , we shall hear of his

installation as M . VV . S . He was one of the Special Stewards appointed for the Jubilee Commemoration Meeting in the Royal Albert Hall in 188 7 , and is a Life Governor of all our Institutions , having acted as Steward for the R . M . B . I . in 1880 , for the Boys' School in 1881 , and for the Girls' School in 1881 , and for the second time at its Centenary in 1888 .

GRAND STANDARD BEARERS . Bro . GEORGE TAYLOR , Prov . G . Secretary , Worcestershire , completes his 20 th anniversary as a Mason this very day ( Friday ) , having been initiated in the Hope and Charity Lodge , No . 377 , Kidderminster , on the 26 th April , 1869 . He was installed VV . M . in December , 1876 , and on

concluding his term of office was elected and annually re-elected Treasurer till 18 S 1 . He joined the Vernon Lodge , No . 560 , Stourport , in 1879 , and was installed Master in 1881 , in which year also he became the principal founder and first W . M . of the Lechmere Lodge , No . 1874 , Kidderminster . His first experience as a Provincial Officer was in 1879 , when he was

appointed Prov . G . Pursuivant , Worcestershire , from which office he advanced to be Prov . S . G . Deacon in 1879 , Prov . J . G . Warden in 1880 , and Prov . S . G . Warden in 1881 , when he was appointed to the laborious , if less distinguished , post of Provincial G . Secretary , in succession to the late Bro . W . Bristow . He was exalted to the R . A . in June , 1872 , in the

Hope and Charity Chapter , No . 377 , and was installed M . E . Z . in 1880 . From 1881 to 1884 he held the office of Prov . G . Scribe E ., and was Prov . G . J . in 1886 . As regards Mark Masonry , he was advanced in the Howe , Time Immemorial Lodge , Birmingham , in June , 1881 , was founder and first W . M . of the Godson Mark Lodge , No . 330 , in 1884 , and , after being

appointed Prov . S . G . Mark Warden ot Worcestershire in February , 1886 , was promoted to the still higher office of Dep . P . G . M . M . M . in 1887 . He is also a P . E . P . of the St . Amand Preceptory , No . 68 , Worcester , Past M . W . S . of the Vernon Chapter of Rose Croix , 18 , No . 5 , Birmingham , and has taken the 31 in the Ancient and Accepted Rite , besides many of

the other degrees connected with our Order . He has also at various times served 10 Stewardships on behalf of our Charitable Institutions , and is a Vice-President of both our Schools , and Life Governor of the Benevolent Institution . But these , however , represent only a portion of the work he has done in and for Freemasonry . In 1879 he founded the Kidderminster

Masonic Hall and Club , and for many years superintended , and is at this time a director of , that prosperous and useful institution . It was , likewise , in the same year that he founded the Worcestershire Charitable Organisation , by means of which the Province has been able to contribute so freely to the Central Charities ; but the achievement by which he is best known , and with which his name will always be associated , is his formation

of the greatest Masonic library and collection of MSS ., medals , curios , & c , & c . which has ever been in the possession of an individual brother , and which is now lodged at the Masonic Hall , Worcester . No doubt our readers who visited Worcester during the exhibition of these medals and books will remember how extensive was the collection , and will not grudge Bro . Taylor the honour he has just had conferred upon him by the Grand Master .

Bro . THOMAS G . BULLEN was initiated into Freemasonry in the Buckingham and Chandos Lodge , No . 1150 , in 1867 , and three years later joined the Jerusalem Lodge , No . 197 . He is a Past Master of both these lodges , having filled the chair of the latter in 1876 , and of the former in 1878 . He

is also a Past G . Steward , and is a Life Governor of all three Charitable Institutions , having , in addition , given his services as Steward twice . for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and once in each case for the Boys' and Girls' Schools .

GRAND ORGANIST . Bro . M . MAYERICK , the new Grand Organist , was initiated in the Athenaeum Lodge , No . 149 1 , in 1876 . The year following he became one of the founders of the Orpheus Lodge , No . 1706 , which , as its name indicates , is intended chiefly for members of the musical profession , or those interested in its development . In 1880 he joined the St . Andrew ' s