Promoting the Fraternity across the World
Ellison-Macartney was born William Grey Ellison on June 7th, 1852 in Dublin, Ireland. In 1859, with Ellison-Macartney was seven, his father changed the family name to Ellison-Macartney as a condition of inheritance from a maternal uncle.
ohn Keiller MacKay was a Freemason, Canadian soldier and politician.
MacKay was born on July 11th, 1888 in the village of Plainfield, Pictou County, Nova Scotia
Walter Millard Fleming was an American surgeon and one of the founders of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Fleming was born on June 13th, 1838 in Portland, Maine. He would graduate from a medical school in Albany, New York in 1862 before practicing medicine.
osiah Williams Begole was a Freemason and American politician.
Begole was born on January 20th, 1815 in Groveland, New York. Begole’s maternal grandfather was an American Revolution veteran.
Begole moved to Flint, Michigan, along with his siblings in 1836. There he became a school teacher.
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby was a British politician and sportsman.
Stanley was born on January 15th, 1841 in London. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received a commission in the Grenadier Guards and rose to the rank of captain.
An English Freemason, distinguished for his services to the Craft. Robert Thomas Crucefix, M.D., I·.D., was born in Holborn, England, in the year 1797, and received his education at Merchant Tailors’ School. After leaving school, he became the pupil of Doctor Chamberlayne, a general and celebrated practitioner of his day, at Clerkenwell ; he afterward became a student at Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital and was a pupil of the celebrated Abernethy.
John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683 1744) was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton
Swayne was born on December 7th, 1804 in Frederick County, Virgina. His father passed away when Swayne was only 5. Shortly after his father’s passing, Swayne was enrolled in Jacob Mendendhall’s Academy, a respected Quaker school in Virginia. After graduating he began studying medicine until his teacher passed away in 1819. Despite the family having no money, Swayne turned his attention to the law. He began reading law with two Virgina attorneys and passed the bar in 1823.
Walter Besant was born on August 14th, 1836 in Potsmouth, Hampshire, England. He attended St. Paul’s in Southsea and Stockwell Grammar in London. He went on to King’s College London. In 1855 he was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1859 from Christ’s Church as a wrangler, an individual who attains first class honors in mathematics in their third year.
Sir Ernest Shackleton was initiated in Navy Lodge No. 2612, London, on 9th July, 1901,
passed on 2nd November, 1911, and raised on 30th May, 1913
He was also a member of the Guild of Freeman Lodge No. 3525