The New Grand Officers.

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J UNIOR GRAND DEACON . Bro . Ch ; trles Darbyshire Cheetham was initiated in 1 879 in the Alexandra Lodge , No . 993 , Levenshulme , and was installed as Master in 188 3 . He joined the Lodge of Unanimity , No . 28 7 , Stockport , in 18 97 . In the Provincial

Grand Lodge of East Lancashire he has filled the offices of Junior Grand Deacon , Junior Grand Warden , and Senior Grand Warden , and has been since 18 97 Chairman of the Charity Committee of the Province , as well as the P 2 ast Lancashire Systematic Benevolent Institution . As a Royal Arch Mason he has filled the Chair of Z ., and has received Provincial Grand appointments as Grand Scribe E . and Grand

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Scribe N . Bro . Cheetham ' s work in connection with the Charities has been untiring . He has served as Steward for the Girls ' School in 188 7 and 18 9 8 , and for the Boys' School in

1888 and 18 9 8 , and is a Life Governor of both , while for the Benevolent he has served no less than 14 Stewardships , and has qualified as a Patron of the Institution . J UNIOR GRAND DEACON .

Bro . Thomas Taylor has a long and honourable record as a Mason , and no appointment of the present year will have been more richly deserved than his . PYom 186 5 , the year in which Bro . Taylor was initiated into Masonry in the Menturia Lodge , No . 418 Hanlev , his career as a Mason has

been active and eminently useful . Our space will not admit of recording the many services which Bro . Taylor has rendered to Masonry in the Province of Staffordshire , and it must suffice to say that from the installation of the late Karl of Shrewsbury , in 1871 , to the present time , he has been identified with all the events of importance which have occurred in that earnest and zealous centre of Masonic work .

HHO . THOMAS TAYI . OIt . ¦ ( I'hnln linker , lli , ;„ l „ i li , i ,, i )

In Royal Arch Masonry he was exalted in 1872 , and became a First Principal in 1880 . In 188 4 , he was appointed Prov . G . J . Bro . Taylor also took up very early the charitable work of the province , and has identified himself with all the efforts of the brethren in that direction . In the year 18 73 ,

he was appointed Provincial Senior Grand Warden , and was instrumental in forming a second lodge , the Gordon , No . 2149 , which has been very successful , especially in the support it has given to the Charities . Bro . Taylor has done yeoman service in connection with the Staffordshire Masonic Charitable Association , and is its present President . He has

served fourteen Stewardships for the Central Charities , and is a Vice-Patron both of the Boys' and Girls' Schools . J UNIOR GRAND DEACON .

Bro . Philip Scratchley , M . A ., was initiated in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , Oxford , in 1876 , and subsequently joined the Westminster and Keystone Lodge , No . 10 , and the Carnarvon Lodge , No . 708 , in both of which he became the Worshipful Master . He was appointed Provincial Grand

Registrar of Middlesex in 1887 . In Royal Arch Masonry , Bro . Scratchley was exalted in the Westminster and Keystone Chapter , No . 10 , in 1880 , and was installed as Z . in i 888 . He is a Life Governor of the Girls' and Boys' Schools , and has served four Stewardships for the Girls , and one for the Boys .