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Forest Lodge ( 401 ) , Lymington . In fact , if we place his time of subscribing to various Lodges together , it would amount to upwards of eighty years . More than twenty years since he was appointed D . Prov . G . M . hy Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis , Bart , which office he holds to the present day . During

the many years that Sir Lucius ivas absent as Port Admiral of Malta , and second in command in the Mediterranean , and afterwards absent in India , Bro . Deacon conducted the business of the province and held Grand Lodges every year , keeping Masonry

together in the name of the gallant and illustrious chief , and Avinning the love and confidence of the brethren , to an extent no man in Hampshire ever

enjoyed either before , or noiv , except the Avorthy Admiral , who is , like his deputy , much beloved in Hampshire . Bro . Deacon Avas exalted in the Eoyal G-loster Chapter ( No . 152 ) , in September , 1829 , is a P . Z . of it ; and if Ave refer to the high grades , we find him P . E . Commander of the Eoyal

Gloucester Encampment ) . He has received jewels and honours from his admiring brethren in Hampshire , and is universally beloved in the South of England . He is an eminent member of the legal profession , and has been upwards of a quarter of century

Town Clerk of Southampton , where he has contributed largely to the prosperity of that rising ancl distinguished port . In charity Bro . Deacon has done much

locally , and served the office of Steivard to the Girls ' School , as well as twice qualifying as Life Governor . Bro . JAMES J . BI . AKE , J . G . D ., was initiated in the year 1838 , in the Saint Michael ' s Lodge ( 255 ) , of which Bro . Stephen Barton Wilson was then the Master , and by a diligent attendance on the Emulation Lodge

of Improvement , and several Loclges of Instruction , qualified himself for the office of Master of his lodge , to which he was elected in 1840 . He subsequently became Master of the following lodges , i'iz . : —The Grand Stewards' Lodge ; the Grand Masters' Lodge

( No . 1 ) ; the Temple Lodge ( No . 118 ) ; and the Grove Lodge ( No . 593 ) . Bro . Blake in 1 S 39 . served his first Stewardship for the Aged Freemasons' Asylum ,

and subsequently as Grand Steward , Steward for the Girls' School , for the Boys' School , and for the Masonic Benevolent Annuity Fund , ancl qualified as a vice-President of the three last-named Institutions . He has also served on the Board of General Purposes , and on all the Charity Committees . Bro . Blake ' s

labours in connection with the Province of Surrey are Avell known to all acquainted Avith that county , his association with the Grove Lodge , -at Eweii , having existed more than twenty years . He was appointed Junior Grand Warden of that Province in 1845 , and

in 1847 raised to the rank of Senior Graud Warden . In Eoyal Arch Masonry , Comp . Blake has been equally successful in his career , having been exalted in

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the Eoyal York Chapter ( No . 7 ) in 1839 , and subsequently elected in due course M . E . Z . He is also P . Z . of the Chapter of Fidelity ( No . 3 ) , and of the Grove Chapter ( No . 593 ) . Comp . Blake is now Grand Standard Bearer in the Supreme Grand Chapter .

Bro . Capt . Sows C & EATOX , J . G . D ., a magistrate of the county of Bucks , was initiated in the Phoenix Lodge ( No . 202 ) on the 11 th Feb ., 1854 , and duly passed and raised in the folloiving months of March and April . He joined the Lodge of Antiquity ( No . 2 ) in 1857 , and was elected W . M . 1860 , and

reelected in 1861 , for the second year . He was exalted in the St . James's Chapter ( No . 2 ) on the 3 rd December , 1 S 57 , and now holds the office of H . He served the office of G . Steward 1860 ( when he Avas President of the Board ) the Stewardship

of Girls' Festival 1860 , ancl Boys' 1861 ( being again President of the Board ) , and Steward of the Eoyal Benevolent Institution , 1862 , making himself Life Governor of all the four funds , viz ., Boys , Girls , Aged Masons , and Widows . He is at present serving

as a member on the House Committees of Boys' and Girls' Schools , and on the Boai'd of General Purposes . Capt . Creaton is S . B . in Grand Chapter . Bro . NICHOLS BRADFORD . Asst . G . Dir . of Cers ., Avas initiated in the Old Union Lodge ( No . 54 ) in March , 1841 , of ivhich he is now a P . M . He ivas

exalted in St . John's Chapter ( No . 196 ) in 1843 , and is a P . Z ., being a subscribing member of both lodge and chapter to this time . He is a Past Grand Officer of Grand Chapter , having been appointed G . D . C . three or four years since . He is also a Past Grand Steward , having been the first sent from No . 54 , when

that lodge had the honour of a red apron conferred upon it . He has served the Steivardships of the Girls' and Boys' School , and also the Eoyal Benevolent Institution for Aged Masons and their WidoAVS . He Avas formerly ( about the time that the Girls ' School AA'as removed to Wandsworth ) elected on the House and Audit Committees of that school , to which

he devoted some attention . He was also , for a few years , on the Board of General Purposes , and is at present Yice-President of the Colonial Board . Bro . HEXRY Eiirsos , G . SAVOI-CI Bearer , wasinitiated in the Ionic Lodge ( No . 275 ) on the 4 th of November , 1852 , and ivas passed and raised at the two succeeding

meetings of the lodge , and , after serving all the subordinate offices in the lodge , was installed as W . M . on the 25 th of November , 1859 , ancl continues a member of the same lodge . He was exalted in the Eoyal York Chapter of Perseverance ( No . 7 ) on the 27 th of

December , 1853 , and is now serving for the second year ( in order to make room for a companion who had previously resigned ) the office of Principal Sojourner . On the 13 th of December , 1854 , he was advanced in