Grand Masters of the United Grand Lodge of England [ugle] and of Scotland
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William Keith 4th Earl of Kintore, b. ca 1702; d. 22 Nov 1761 unmarried http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00275868&tree=LEO See below, re: 3rd GM of Scotland, which sez this is John [Keith], 3rd earl of Kintore 1738–1739: John Keith, 3rd Earl of Kintore GM of Scotland; (GM of England 1740) http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/kk/keith04.htm John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore (d 12.04.1715) m. (24.04.1662) Margaret Hamiton (b 15.01.1641, dau of Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington) a. William Keith, 2nd Earl of Kintore (d 05.12.1718) m. (before 1698) Catherine Murray (d 01.1726, dau of David Murray, 4th Viscount Stormont) i. John Keith, 3rd Earl of Kintore (bpt 21.05.1699, dsp 22.11.1758) m. (21.08.1729) Mary Erskine (b 05.07.1714, d 19.02.1772, dau of James Erskine, Lord Grange, of Mar family) ii. William Keith, 4th Earl of Kintore (bpt 05.01.1702, d unm 22.11.1761) iii. Catherine Margaret Keith (bpt 29.06.1619, d 01.03.1762) m. (mcrt 27.11.1703) David Falconer, 5th Lord of Halkerton (b 05.1681, d 24.09.1751) The earldom of Kintore passed to their grandson Anthony Falconer, 5th Earl of Kintore. iv. Jean Keith (d unm) In 1740, one of the earlier aristocratic (but not Royal) grand masters of English-Modern Freemasonry was John, 3rd Earl of Kintore, Grand Master, Premier Grand Lodge, England, [from Hamill's lists]. 
Keith Hall http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/the_builder_1918_december.htm In Russia, [Field Marshal] James [Francis Edward Keith], after trying his fortune in Spain, became Master of a lodge either at Moscow or St. Petersburg (now Petrograd) in 1732, was present with his brother, [George Keith, 10th] Earl Marischal, at the session of the Grand Lodge of England in 1840 and on being recalled to Russia bore with him a commission as Provincial Grand Master, which was granted by his kinsman, [John Keith] Lord Kintore [3rd Earl]. In 1744 after having attained the rank of Lieutenant-General he left Russia, joined the Prussian Army as a Field Marshal and was killed at the battle of Hochkirchen in 1758. In 1761 a Field Lodge was established in the Russian Army which at this time had its headquarters at Mareinburg, West Prussia. http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/the_builder_1918_december.htm The first lodge was established at Madrid in 1728 by Philip, Duke of Wharton, who with James (afterwards Marshal) Keith was a Jacobite Refugee and had fought in the Spanish trenches before Gibraltar the previous year. The Craft became inactive but revived during the Peninsular War (1808-14). Ferdinand VII in 1814 however abolished the Institution and declared Freemasons to be guilty of treason and many Freemasons both of Spain and Portugal were imprisoned or put to death. Note: Upon the death of John Keith’s brother, William (4th Earl of Kintore) in 1762 (unmarried): http://www.electricscotland.com/WEBCLANS/earldoms/chapter5s6.htm On the death of the fourth Earl of Kintore, and the failure of male issue in 1761, [George Keith] 10th Earl Marischal [q.v.] became heir to the estates of the earldom. He stayed for some time in Scotland, but was back to Prussia in 1762. He again returned to Scotland in August, 1763, and repurchased some of his estates with the intention of settling in his native land. But Frederick the Great was extremely anxious that Keith would return to Prussia. Accordingly, on the 15th of May, 1764, the silver plate belonging to Earl Marischal at Keithhall — consisting of household utensils and articles, were packed up, to be sent to Hamburg by his orders, and the Marischal himself returned to Prussia. He was greatly esteemed by Frederick the Great, and spent the evening of his days in peace and comfort. On the 28th of May, 1778, he died unmarried in his 86th year. Thus terminated the main lineal line of one of the oldest and most illustrious families of Scotland. Hon. James Erskine - Lord Grange 1679-1754 Father-in-law of John Keith, 3rd Earl of Kintore Note: Hon. James Erskine’s daughter, Mary (1714-1772), married (1729) John Keith (1699-1758), 3rd Earl of Kintore, GM - Premier GL 1740. He was also GM Scotland 1738-39. Hon. James Erskine’s brother was John Erskine (1675-1732/37), 6th/27th Earl of Mar, 11th Lord Erskine who was the father of Thomas ‘Lord’ Erskine (d. 1766), GM Scotland 1749-50. The Abduction of Lady Grange http://www.oldandnewedinburgh.co.uk/volume2/page68/single ----------------- On the east side of Niddry’s Wynd, nearly opposite to Lockhart’s Court, was a handsome house, which early in the eighteenth century was inhabited by the Hon. James Erskine, a senator, better known by his legal and territorial appellation of Lord Grange, brother of John Earl of Mar, who led the great rising of 1715 on behalf of the Stuarts. He was born in 1679, and was called to the Scottish bar in 1705. He took no share in the Jacobite enterprise which led to the forfeiture of his brother, and the loss, ultimately of the last remains of the once great inheritance in the north from which the ancient family took its name. He affected to be a zealous Presbyterian and adherent of the House of Hanover, and as such he figures prominently in the “Diary” of the industrious Wodrow, supplying that writer with many shreds of the Court gossip, which he loved so dearly; but Lord Grange is chiefly remembered for the romantic story of his wife, which has long filled and interesting page in popular literature and been the theme of more than one work of fiction. She was Rachel Chiesley, the daughter of that Chiesley of Dalry who, in a gust of passionate resentment, shot down the Lord President Lockhart, and she inherited from him a temper prompt to ire. She and her husband had been married upwards of twenty years, and had several children, when a separation was determined upon between them. “Some portion of her father’s violent temper appears to have descended to his daughter,” says the editor of Lord Grange’s Letters, “and aggravated by drunkenness, rendered her marriage for many years miserable, and led a last, in the year 1730, to her formal separation from her husband.” According to Lady Grange’s account, there had been love and peace for twenty years between her and Lord Grange, when he conceived a sudden dislike, and would live with her no longer; while he, on the other hand, asserted that he had long been tortured by her “unsubduable rage and madness,” and had failed in every effort to soothe or bring her to reason. She was a woman of more than common beauty. Another account has it that in her girlhood Grange had seduced her and she compelled him to marry her by threatening to pistol him, and reminding him that she was Chiesley’s daughter. In effecting the separation, he allowed her 100 pounds a year so long as she lived peacefully apart from him; but his frequent journeys to London, and rumours of certain amours there, inflamed her jealousy, and after being for some time in the country, she returned and took lodging near her husband’s house in Niddry’s Wynd, as she herself touchingly relates, “that I might have the pleasure to see the house he was in, and to see him and my children going out; and . . . 
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