The Province Of Surrey.

ing to the Grand Lodge Calendar ) in 1838 , President of the Board of General Purposes from 18 42 to 18 4 8-9 , Grand Registrar from 18 4 6 to 1856-7 , and again President of the Board of General Purposes from 1854 to 1856-7 ; besides being Provincial Grand Master of Surrey , 1847 , to his resignation in 1871 . His death occurred in 1876 , after an eventful Masonic life , extending through one of the most trying experiences of Grand Lodge , when sound judgment

BRO . FRANK HOLME SUMNER , PAST PROVINCIAL SENIOR GRAND WARDEN . was much needed . It is not many Provincial Grand Masters who can say of their constituency , " in the province ,

unanimity and brotherly love and esteem have prevailed ever since my appointment , for I have never had a single complaint of any description to investigate , which no other Provincial Grand Master can boast of , during a period of nearly twenty-live years ( 23 rd January , 1873 ) . " He was then

in his sixtieth year as a Freemason , having been initiated in Mother Lodge Kilwinning , No . o , Scotland , in November , 1813 . His resignation was accepted with regret , and a piece of plate was presented to Bro . Alex . Dobie by the Provincial Grand Lodge " as a genuine mark of esteem and regard . "

General J . Studholme Brownrigg , C . B . ( Senior Grand Warden in 1858 ) , succeeded in 1871 , and his installation took place under the banner of the Surrey Lodge , Reigate , on April 27 th , 1872 . The Calendar states that "Twentythree lodges and eight chapters were consecrated " during

his tenure of office , and the Provincial Grand Master also presided over the Annual Festivals of the Benevolent Institution in 188 3 and the Girls' School in 1886 . His death occurred so recently as 1889 , when the province "was placed in the charge of that good friend to the Craft , locally and generally , Bro . Frederick West , F . R . G . S ., P . G . D ., the esteemed Deputy Provincial Grand Master .

Colonel Gerard Noel Money , C . B ., was the sixth Provincial Grand Master from 1891 , but his decease occurring only within four years after his installation , again left the province without a ruler-in-chief , but this time for a brief period only , as the Right Hon . the Earl of Onslow , G . C . M . G ., High Steward of Guildford , was installed as the seventh Provincial

Grand Master in that city on July 9 th , 18 95 , by the late Right Hon . the Earl of Lathom , G . C . B ., the Pro Grand Master . His Masonic Alma Mater was the Apollo University Lodge ( as with so many other Provincial Grand Masters ) , having been initiated at Oxford in 1871 , and was Senior Grand Warden in 1880 . This distinguished nobleman felt compelled to resign the appointment owing to his numerous

public engagements , when Colonel John Davis , F . S . A ., Dep . G . D . C . ( 1888 ) , was selected as his successor , being installed by Lord Onslow at Surbiton on November 24 th , 1900 . The tribute to his worth and the general expectation that was formed of his distinguished future cannot be better summarised than in the words of the preface to the Calendar

of 1903 : " Everything seemed to betoken a protracted period of usefulness in the numerous walks in life in which he had attained distinction , but to the general sorrow , his death occurred after a brief illness on the 7 th of July , 1902 . " His initiation occurred in Glasgow in 1858 , and he served as

Worshipful Master of Nos . 33 , 197 , and 1971 ; besides being a founder of No . 2140 , and a joining member of the Royal Alfred , No . 777 , Guildford . For another brief term the Provincial Grand Lodge is under the able management of Bro . Frederick West , the Deputy Provincial Grand Master ,

and will be until the installation of Bro . the Hon . Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill , known officially as Mr . Justice Bucknill , Judge of King ' s Bench Division of the High Court , who has been appointed to the oversight of the province by H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn , M . W . Grand

Master . Undoubtedly , a more popular appointment as Provincial Grand Master could not be made , so there is a very bright future before the province under the genial and capable presidency of such a worthy and distinguished brother .

1 he ninth Provincial Grand Master was initiated in the Lodge of Good Report , No . 136 , London , in 1869 , and in 18 73 was elected as its Worshipful Master . He also joined the Lodge of Friendship , No . 6 , and the Old Westminsters , No . 2233 , as well as becoming a founder and lirst Worshipful Master of the Ebbisham Lodge , No . 2422 , Epsom , in 1892 ,

and Provincial Junior Grand Warden of Surrey in the following year . The Hon . Mr . Justice Bucknill was the third brother appointed to the office of Deputy Grand Registrar of England in 18 95 , an honour followed in 18 99 by his promotion to the Past rank of Junior Grand

Warden . Some twenty-five brethren on the roll of the Province of Surrey are Grand Officers , beginning with the Earl of Onslow as P . S . G . W ., and ending with Viscount Cranley , P . M . 1395 ( son of his lordship ) , now the Junior Grand Warden .

HRO . CHAIU . ES T . T 1 TLER . PROVINCIAL GRAND SECRETARY . The really old lodges chartered for Surrey have all passed away , which is much to be regretted , as there ] are none now on the register which date before the formation

of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1813 . The senior of the extinct series was warranted in the year 1733 in Southwark , London , but was removed to the " Castle" Inn . Market Place , Kingston-on-Thames , in 173 6 . Its connection