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Consecration Of The Khartoum Lodge, No. 2877.
Consecration of the Khartoum Lodge , No . 2877 .
T HE consecration of the above lodge took place at the Khartoum Palace on Thursday , the 19 th December , and the ce "t mony was most impressively carried out by R . W . Bro . Major-General Sir Reginald Wingate , Sirdar
and Governor-General of the Sudan , P . G . W ., and D . G . M . of Egypt and the Sudan .
R . W . 14 R 0 . LOUD K 1 TCI 1 KNEH 01- ' KHARTOUM , PAST DISTRICT GRAND MASTEtl OF KUYPT AND Till- ' , SUDAN .
There was a large and distinguished gathering , including Bros . Col . Sir Arthur Mackworth , Currie , MacNeill , Blanch , Said Bey Shoucair , P . M . ( Egyptian Constitution ) , Shahin Bey Girgis , P . M . ( Egyptian Constitution ) , and Captain Nesib
Effendi Abcarius . The officers appointed were as follows : —Bros . Bailey , P . M ., W . M . ; Sutherland , I . P . M . ; Drage , S . W . ; Stanton , J . W . ; Friend , D . of C . ; the Hon . A . Hore-Ruthven ,
Secretary ; Stack , S . D . ; Ross-Johnson , J . D . ; Franklin , Organist ; and Coutts , I . G . The Khartoum Lodge , it may be mentioned , is the first introduction of English Freemasonry into the Sudan . Its
Avant had long been fell , for in this vast territory there are many members of the Craft who hold military and other
appointments , with hitherto no lodge nearer to them than Cairo , a distance of more than 1500 miles . In 18 99 , with a view to ameliorating the situation , the various lodges throughout Egypt very generously came
forward and look the opportunity of approaching the Grand Master on the subject of creating the appointment of a District Grand Master for Egypt and the Sudan , which it
was seen would have beneficial effects for Egypt itself and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Consecration Of The Khartoum Lodge, No. 2877.
Consecration of the Khartoum Lodge , No . 2877 .
T HE consecration of the above lodge took place at the Khartoum Palace on Thursday , the 19 th December , and the ce "t mony was most impressively carried out by R . W . Bro . Major-General Sir Reginald Wingate , Sirdar
and Governor-General of the Sudan , P . G . W ., and D . G . M . of Egypt and the Sudan .
R . W . 14 R 0 . LOUD K 1 TCI 1 KNEH 01- ' KHARTOUM , PAST DISTRICT GRAND MASTEtl OF KUYPT AND Till- ' , SUDAN .
There was a large and distinguished gathering , including Bros . Col . Sir Arthur Mackworth , Currie , MacNeill , Blanch , Said Bey Shoucair , P . M . ( Egyptian Constitution ) , Shahin Bey Girgis , P . M . ( Egyptian Constitution ) , and Captain Nesib
Effendi Abcarius . The officers appointed were as follows : —Bros . Bailey , P . M ., W . M . ; Sutherland , I . P . M . ; Drage , S . W . ; Stanton , J . W . ; Friend , D . of C . ; the Hon . A . Hore-Ruthven ,
Secretary ; Stack , S . D . ; Ross-Johnson , J . D . ; Franklin , Organist ; and Coutts , I . G . The Khartoum Lodge , it may be mentioned , is the first introduction of English Freemasonry into the Sudan . Its
Avant had long been fell , for in this vast territory there are many members of the Craft who hold military and other
appointments , with hitherto no lodge nearer to them than Cairo , a distance of more than 1500 miles . In 18 99 , with a view to ameliorating the situation , the various lodges throughout Egypt very generously came
forward and look the opportunity of approaching the Grand Master on the subject of creating the appointment of a District Grand Master for Egypt and the Sudan , which it
was seen would have beneficial effects for Egypt itself and