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FREEMASONRY IN 1924,
STRIKING PROGRESS OF A DECADE.
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The progress of Freemasonry during the past decade may be gauged by comparing the figures in the Masonic Year Book- for 1998, just published, with these con- tained in the 1915 edition, which was
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War. To-day there are 4,005 lodges in- der the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England, consisting of> 936 London lodges, 2,700, provisional, 2 mili- tary, 506 districts (overseas), and 73 abrond not under districts. In 1913 thero were 738 London lodgra, 1,783 provincial, military. 631 district, and 31 abroad not under districta, a total of 3,158.
The English jurisdiction is divided into dh provinces and 30 districts, and aniong the provinces the greatest advance with- in the past 10 years has been made by West Lancashire (including Liverpool, ‹99 lodges), which has added 90 lodges to its register. East Lancashire (which in- cludes "Manchester, 1 lodges) followe Then with- 30, and Cheshire with 49. follow Warwickshire. 33; Durham, 31; Keat 30; Essex, 29; Surrey, 28; Northum berland, 19; Devonshire and Stafford- shire, each 15; South Wales Eastern Divi- sion, 14: Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Sussex, and North Wales, ench 13; Mid- dlesex, 1: Nottinghamshire, North and East Yorkshire, each 11; Worcestershire, 10: Derbyshire, 9; Cumberland and West- morland, and Somerset, each eight; Hertfordshire, seven: Norfolk and Saf folk, each six; Berkshire, Bristol. Lin- colnshire Northamptonshire and Hunts (one province), each five; Gloucestershire and South Wales Western Division, each four; Buckinghamshire, Isle of Man, Le cestershire and Rutland. Monmouthshire, and Oxfordshire, each three; Cambridge, Dorset, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Wiltshire, each two; while Cornwall, Guernsey and Alderney, and Jersey each registered a unit. Thus every province in England and Wales has progress to re- cord.
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In the districts it will be seen that there is a diminution, this being due to the fact that be of the Queensland lodges included in the 1915 returns now form Part of the newly constituted United Grand Lodge of Queensland, Bengal, Bombay, Nigeria, and Panjab each re gister un increase of seven lodges; Natal, 5; Egypt and Sudan, and South Africa Eastern Division, each tour, Madras, 3;
THE OBITUARY LIST. Burma, Eastern Archipelago, Gibraltar,
The obituary Eist has beed a heavy one Souh Africa Western Division, South. America Southern Division, and West and includes the names of the Earl of land and Nelson, each while the unit Past Provincial Grand Master, of Essex, Warwick Past Deputy Grand Master, increase is recorded by Barbados, British Gulana, Northern China, Hongkong and and Supreme Ruler of the Order of the South China, Jamaica, and South Africa Secret. Monitor; Alan B. Gordoa, Dis- Central Division. Auckland (New Zea-trict Grand Master for South Africa East- land), Canterbury (New Zealand), Cey Grand Master for the Transvaal; and, ern Division; J. Waldie Pierson, District lon, Japan, Malta, Newfoundland, Otago (New Zealand), and Wellington "New Stack, District Grand Master for Egypt more recently, Major-General Sir Lee Zealand) have remained stationary: while and the Sudan: Victor A. Williamson, the Transvaal records a decrease of one.
During the ten years 13 Provincial who had held office in Grand Lodge since Grand Masters and nine District Grand 1665; Lord Koollys, Lord Long of Wra xall, Lord Hill, and Sir Edward Moore, Masters have passed away; four and 13 respectively have resigned, the latter Patrick Rose-Innes, Herbert A. Rigg, al Past Grand Wardens; Judge Sit principally, if not entirely, in consequence K.C., and Charles G. Holmes a'Court, of the fact that these positions are gene-
Past Deputy Grand Registrars. Another rally held by prominent Government
veteran was Thomas J. Ralling, Provin officials whose tenure of office has like.
cial Grand Secretary for Essex for heli wise expired and they have returned" to England
a century. Other well-known men were Colonel H. Studholme Brownrigg, Sir Malcolm Morris, Sir 5. Russell-Wells, Sir Walter Parratt, and, Lionel Monckton
ADVANCE IS ROYAL ARCH.
Even more striking, however, is the advance made in Royal Arch, or Capt that of Charles Edward Keyser as Pro- The appointments for the year include tular Masonry, since membership in this section is open only to craft masons, and vincial Grand Master, Grand Saperinten here there are no decreases to record for Essex, in succession to the Deputy dent, and Provincial Grand Mark Master In 1915 the number of chapters stood as follows: London, 269; provinces, 024; dis- Grand Master, Sir Frederick Halsey, Bt., tricts and abroad, 193. To-day the figures ments, after holding the first for 50 years. P.C., who had resigned these appoint! are respectively 336, 281, and 245-an a8 Four new District Grand Masters were grogate increase of 416 chapters. Che appointed, in addition to Major-General shire and West Lancashire head the list, Sir Lee Stack-viz, Cland A. Barron to each with increases of 16, followed by the Funjab; W. Rowland Hayward to Warwickshire. 15; Essex, 14; Kent, Middlesex, and Surrey, each 12; Dur- Sproule to Eastern Archipelago and Otago and Southland: Justice P. J. ham, 11; Hants and Isle of Wight and Colonel Sir A. Heary M'Mahon to Malta. Sussex, each 10; East Lancashire, eight; I Capitular Masonry Colonel G. P. Bedfordshire ( acw province), Devon Symes has been appointed to Dorset; shire, Hertfordshire, and North "and East Yorkshire, ench seven: Northumber and is the Districts H. J. Brde-Johnson land, Staffordshire, South Wales Eastern to Nigeria; C. A. Barron to the Punjab; Division, and Worcestershire, each tix; Major C. W. J. Orr to Gibraltar R. A Lincolnshire, Somerset, and West York- Eastern Archipelago; and S. A Henry Spence to Bombay; Justice Sproule to shire, cach Four Berkshire, Bristol, Derbyshire, Dorset, Leicestershire and M'Mabon to Malta
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Butland, Norfolk, Northamptonshire; add
There are no vacancies in Provincial Huntingdonshire, and North Wales, each Grand Masterships, but there are thres three; Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, to be filled in the districts-Egypt and and Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, and the Sudan, South Africa Eastern Divi Buffolk, each two Cornwall, Cumberland sion, and the Transvaal. There is a and Westmorland Guernsey and Alder forger list of vacancies in the Provin ney, Monmouthshire, Nottinghamshire, the following subsidiary jurisdictions are cial and District Grand Chapters, where Shropshire, and Wiltshire, each one without rulers-Berkshire, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, Jersey, and South Wales Saffolk, Surrey, Bouth Africa Eastern Western Division remain stationary.
Among the District Grand Chapters the Division, and the Transvaal greatest increases are in the Punjab and Bombay, each with seven chapters, fol: lowed by Nigeria (a new district) with six: Argentine Bepublic, South Africa Eastern Division, and South Africa West- ern Division, each with four; Bengal and Madras, each with three. Natal and South Africa Central Division, each with two; Hongkong and South China and Queensland, each with one; Burma, East ern Archipelago, Gibraltar, Jamaica, Malta, South Island, New Zealand, and Transvaal have remained a în 1015.
The outstanding Incidents of the year have been the installations of the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and Prince Arthur of Connaught as Provincial Grand Masters respectively for Burrey, Middle sex, and Berkshire, and the Masonic mis sion to the United States of Sir Alfred Robbins, Past Grand Warden and Pre- sident of the Board of General Pur poses
(Continued on, nex Column),
The Duke of Connaught" as Grand Master of the Great Priory of Knights", Templar has appointed Sir George King to succeed the late Mr. T. H. Gardiner as Great Chancellor of the Order. He has also conferred the rank of Knight Grand Cross of the Temple on the Earl of Stradbroke, Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Wingfleid, Mr. G. A. Harradon and B., Marr Johnson; and of Knight Commander upon Major TGL Lumley-Smith, Great Vice-Chancellor, and Messrs. D. L Johnson, G. St. Vincent Harris, G. a. Beeston, and G. C. Kented for six now
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