Masons Of The Year.

Sea Islands trade ; becoming tired of the merchant service , he turned his attention to the sober requirements of journalism in the Colonies , and continued to wield the pen on his return to England seventeen years ago . In 1 S 86 he was offered the appointment of Registrar to the Dean and Chapter of York , an office which he still holds . Mr . Whytehead was initiated in the

Prince of Wales' Lodge , at Auckland , New Zealand , in 1 S 72 ; joined the York Lodge ( England ) ( 236 ) , in 1874 ; and two years later was a founder and first Senior Warden of the Eboracum Lodge ( 1611 ) , becoming its Worshipful Master the following year . In 1 S 78 he received his first Provincial Grand rank in Craft —that of ProvG . D . C . for N . and E . Yorks .

Masonry . four years later being appointed Prov . Senior Grand W arden of his province ; and in 1 SS 9 became a founder and first Senior Warden of the Albert Victor Lodge ( 2328 ) , and its Worshipful Master the present year . In Mark Masonry he was advanced in the York Mark Lodge in 1874 , becoming its

W . M . three years later ; and in 18 S 1 he was appointed Prov . Grand Secretary for N . and E . Yorks ., and received the honorary rank of Past Grand Master Overseer from Lord Lathom . In 1888 he was appointed Prov . Senior Grand Warden of his province . Thomas Bowman Whytehead was exalted in the Zetland Chapter in Royal Arch Masonry in 1 S 74 , was appointed

Provincial Grand Registrar of North and East Yorks , the following year ; was a founder and first Z . of Eboracum Chapter in 1 S 80 , and was appointed Provincial G . H . in 18 S 5 . In 1874 ,

which seems to be the year in which Masonry first infused him with the desire of conquering everything that presented itself before him , he was received into the ancient Ebor Preceptory of the Temple , three years later being installed E . P . The following year he was appointed Captain of the Guards in the Great Priory and Honorary Provincial Prior of Canada . Ten

years later he was made a Provincial Constable and sub-Prior of North and East Yorks , and was elected a member of the Grand Master ' s Council the present year . In the A . and A . rile he was perfected in the ancient York Chapter of Redemption , at Hull , in 1876 ; was M . W . S . of Hilda Chapter ( 23 ) in iSSo , and

two years ago was admitted to the 30 " . In 1 S 77 he was admitted and elected first celebrant of Hallamshire College of the Rosicrucian Society , two years later he was appointed chief Adept of Yorkshire , the following year becoming a member of the High Council . In 1883 he was admitted in the Grand Master's Council ( 1 ) of the Cryptic . Mr . Thomas B .

Whytehead is a Life Governor of the Boys' Benevolent Institution , a life subscriber of the Girls ' , and Life Governor of the North and East Yorks Educational Fund . He was the first organiser of Masonic Exhibitions , has read papers on Masonic subjects before Lodges and Chapters , and has more Masonic testimonials and addresses than any other Mason

in Yorkshire . At Communication of Grand Lodge , in March of the present year , he was appointed Grand Sword Bearer of England , and is the present Grand Standard Bearer in the Royal Arch .

MR . JOHN CHAPMAN . MR . JOHN CHAPMAN , P . M ., P . Z ., P . Prov . G . D ., Devon , hails from Yorkshire , where his family and estates have been from time immemorial . His health giving way , he settled in Devonshire , where he has during the past twenty years

distinguished himself in Freemasonry . He was initiated in Sincerity Lodge ( 189 ) , on November 14 th , 1870 . Soon giving proof of his desire for Masonic knowledge , we find him in a few months taking the Mark degree in Sincerity Lodge ( 35 ); and on April 14 th , 1871 , the eighteenth degree in the St . Aubyn Rose Croix Chapter .

From this time he appears to have taken a very active part in general Masonry in Torquay , where he joined St . John's Lodge ( 328 ) , and became its zealous secretary . It was while in this office that he was encouraged by his friend , the Rev . John Huyshe , Prov . G . Master of Devon , to form a second Lodge in Torquay ; and in making this effort Bro . Chapman ' s object was to raise

the prestige of the Order , by having only one banquet each year , and to increase the initiation fee and annual subscription . The Jordan Lodge ( 1402 ) was , therefore , formed by Mr . Chapman , and consecrated August 22 nd , 1 S 72 . The next important

step that he took was in becoming a Royal Arch Mason , and on the same day a Knight Templar , which degrees he entered in connection with the St . Aubyn H . R . A . Chapter , and the Royal Sussex Encampment , respectively , on June 14 th , 1872 . From this brief summary of the opening Masonic career of Mr . Chapman , it will be very easy to imagine how he subsequently

worked through the several offices in the various Lodges and Chapters with which he was connected ; and the Rev . John Huyshe , the Chief of the Province , in the degrees indicated , recognised the zeal and ability of Mr . Chapman by conferring upon him the rank of Prov . G . Reg . in the Priory , Prov . G . St . B . in the H . R . A ., and Prov . G . D . in the Craft . The

Provincial rank thus worthily attained was further embellished by Mr . Chapman devoting himself to the interests of the great Masonic Charities , and we find him serving as Steward for the three Institutions , and qualifying as Life Governor to each . This he subsequently improved , and again became Steward for the three Charities , qualifying as Vice-President of the three Institutions , adding to these the Vice-Presidency of the Devon Masonic Educational Institution , and the Life Governorship of

the Masonic Orphan Loys School of Ireland . The literary services of Mr . Chapman have also made their distinctive mark on the Masonic order , for as a Lecturer on Freemasonry and the Great Pyramid ( both in America and this country ) , he has contributed valuable matter for the Masonic student ; especially in editing and issuing the Masonic Orations of Dr .

L . P . Metham , the proceeds of which work—now out of printbeing devoted to the " Royal British Female Orphan Asylum " at Devonport . John Chapman has also rendered valuable services in the formation of the H . R . A . Chapter of St . John ( 328 ) , and material support to the Chine Lodge in its effort to reduce a heavy building" debt ; and his present position in the Order ,

officially considered , indicates the appreciation of his twenty years' labour by the following responsible offices that he holds during the current year : —Z ., St . John ' s H . R . A . Chapter ( 32 S ); E . P ., "Royal Sussex" Preceptor )' , and W . C . N ., Royal Ark Mariners' Lodge ( 319 ) . Add to these the chairmanship of the Grand Masonic Charity Ball , to be held in Torquay on

the 28 th of January next year , for the benefit of the Devon Masonic charities , and we have a list of valuable Masonic services that very few in the Craft can record .

DR . JABEZ HOGG . DR . JABEZ HOGG , whose portrait hangs in the meetingroom of the John Hervey Lodge , at Freemasons' Hall , was initiated in 1 S 55 , in the old Concord Lod ge , and almost immediately placed his professional services at the disposal

of the Royal Masonic Institution , and has ever since continued to be their honorary consulting ophthalmic surgeon . Twelve years after initiation—that is , in 1 S 67 , after he had passed the chair of his mother Lodge—the Earl of Zetland made him a Grand Deacon of England . In 1 S 6 9 he assisted in founding

John Hervey Lodge ( 1260 ) , eventually passing the chair and becoming its Treasurer . In 1 S 76 he became M . E . Z . of the Hervey Chapter , and also its Treasurer . Dr . Hogg was about this time elected Grand Sword Bearer in Grand Chapter . In 1884 we find him assisting at the foundation of the Lodge of

Kino-Solomon , and subsequently he was elected an honorary member . Dr . Jabcz Hogg is also a member of Quatuor Coronati , has served the office of Steward at the Masonic Festivals on many occasions , is a Life Governor of the three Institutions , and serves al the present moment on several of the Committees .

Outside of Freemasonry , of which he has been for the last thirty-five years a careful disciple , Dr . Hogg has become famous in medical science . He is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society , an ex-President of the Medical Mirisci pal Society of London , an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of

Philadelphia , the Canadian and Belgian Microscopical Societies the Society of Medical Jurisprudence , and Medico-Legal Society of New York . Dr . Hogg was a great friend of the late Mr . Herbert Ingram , the founder and proprietor of the Illustrated London A ews , and he was the author of several of those illustrated scientific works which Herbert Ingra m com-