Grand Masters of the United Grand Lodge of England [ugle] and of Scotland
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Edward Hanover, Duke of Kent was Grand Master of the Antients. Augustus Hanover, Duke of Sussex was Grand Master of the Moderns. * Edward stepped down to leave his brother, http://www.scotland.com/castles/ayrshire/loudon/ 
Loudoun Castle in Ayrshire, southwest of Glasgow stands about a mile from Galston. It was the ancestral home of the Campbell family of Loudoun. The earliest four storey square tower with a battlement, probably built by the Craufurds, incorporated into the present ruins dates to either the 12th or 13th century. In 1601, the First Earl of Loudoun, Sir John Campbell, Chancellor of Scotland, erected additional buildings to the south of the old keep which were included in the later rebuilding. Around 1811 the castle was rebuilt as a baronial palace for Flora Mure-Campbell, Countess of Loudoun and her husband the Second Earl of Moira. James and Robert Adam and Archibald Elliot were responsible for the architecture. It was one of the grandest mansions in the West of Scotland at the time. The castle with its ninety rooms was known as the "Windsor of Scotland". It was dominated by the main tower of which now, one solitary corner remains dramatically in place. The entrance hall was 70 feet by 30 feet and the Wallace Sword had place of honor on the east wall. The 10,000 volume library on the south front measured 100 feet in length and incorporated much of the 17th century extension. A Yew tree near the south front of Loudoun castle is reputed to be over 800 years old. In 1941 a fire destroyed Loudoun castle beyond repair and it was left as a ruin. It is still owned by the Campbell family and is not open to the public. A popular theme park is currently situated in the grounds surrounding the castle. ----------------- 40. 1813 – 1843 Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover, Duke of Sussex – Grand Master of the new United Grand Lodge of England [UGLEl, who served until his death 21 Apr 1843 
Augustus Frederick [William] of HANOVER Duke of Sussex, etc. b. 27 Jun 1773 Buckingham Palace, St. John's Park, London. d. Kensington Palace, London, of erysipelas 21 Apr 1843, he was 69. bur. Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Initiated at the Royal York Lodge of Friendship, F&AM, in Berlin in 1708; Grand Master, United Grand Lodge of England [UGLE], 1813-43 http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/heredom-files/volume6/lausanne-congress-of-1875.htm The Duke of Sussex cautiously discouraged, at least until the early 1830s, too prominent a role for the Grand Conclave of Knights Templar, of which, however, the remained Grand Master until his own death in 1843. He had had no wish to offend the susceptibilities of those former members of the Moderns who had accepted, in the words of the Act of Union, that "pure Antient Masonry consists of three degrees, and no more, viz. those of the Entered Apprentice, the Fellow Craft, and the Master Mason, including; the Supreme Order of the Holy Royal Arch," and were still somewhat suspicious about Orders outside this definition. Even so, when in 1845 the Supreme Council of the N.M.J., U.S.A., transmitted the Patent for a Supreme Council to be formed in England, not only was the Order of Knights Templar flourishing, but it had become a somewhat exclusive body to which many of the most prominent English Freemasons had been admitted ---------- Created Duke of Sussex & Earl of Inverness in 1801. Secretly married Lady Murray in Rome. George III declared the marriage invalid in accordance with the Royal Marriage Act of 1772, although the couple remained together for some years and had two children.
In 1801 Augustus Frederick was granted the title of Baron Arklow, Earl of Inverness and Duke of Sussex. He supported the abolition of the slave trade, Catholic emancipation, civil liberties for Jews and Dissenters, and Parliamentary reform. He became Grand Master of the Freemasons in 1811; was elected President of the Society of Arts in 1816; and served as President of the Royal Society from 1830 to 1838. The Duke was an avid book collector, often bidding in competition with Sir Thomas Phillipps, and his library eventually contained over 50,000 volumes, including more than 1,000 editions of the Bible and many Hebrew manuscripts. In 1817 he appointed Thomas Joseph Pettigrew his surgeon; Pettigrew came to serve as his librarian for some years and published the first volumes of the Bibliotheca Sussexiana in 1827. The two men were estranged as a result of the Duke's embarrassingly narrow victory in the Royal Society elections of 1830, a contest that Pettigrew had persuaded the Duke to enter, but the next volumes of the Bibliotheca nevertheless appeared in 1839. Augustus Frederick remarried late in life, to Cecelia, ninth daughter of the Earl of Arran and widow of Sir George Buggins; there were no children of this marriage. The Duke died of erysipelas on April 21, 1843. On 4 Apr 1793 when Augustus Frederick [William] was 19, he first m. Augusta D' AMELAND Lady Murray, Rome, Italy, by a protestant minister. b. 27 Jan 1768 London, England. d. East Cliff, Ramsgate, Kent, England 5 Mar 1830, she was 62. div. in 1794. 1m: Rome 4.4.1793 and at London 5.12.1793 (marriage declared null and void, as being in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act, 1794, though the couple continued to live together as man and wife) Lady Augusta Murray (*London 27.1.1768, +Ramsgate, Kent 5.3.1830) They had the following children: i. Augustus Frederick (1794-1848) ii. Augusta Emma Madillene (1801-1866) On 2 May 1831 when Augustus Frederick [William]was 57, he second m. Lady Cecilia Letitia Saunders Underwood GORE Duchess of Inverness, Great Cumberland Place, London. b. ca 1785. d. Kensington Palace, London, of erysipelas 1 Aug 1873, she was 88. 9th dau. of the Earl of Arran. 2m: (in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act) London ca 2.5.1831 Lady Cecilia Gore, who took the name Lady Cecilia Underwood 2.3.1834, and was cr Dss of Inverness 10.4.1840 (*ca 1785, +Kensington Palace 1.8.1873) ----------------- 40b - John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Deputy GM UGLE 1834; Pro GM 1839-1840 b. 12 Apr 1792, London, England; 28 Jul 1840 http://www.thepeerage.com/p1102.htm#i11016 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lambton%2C_1st_Earl_of_Durham (also known as Radical Jack) GCB PC (London 12 April 1792 – 28 July 1840 Cowes), was a British Whig statesman and colonial administrator, Governor General and high commissioner of British North America. As Lord Privy Seal in the administration of Lord Grey he helped draft the reform bill of 1832. 
He was sent to Quebec in 1838 to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Lower Canada Rebellion of Louis-Joseph Papineau and the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, and his detailed and famous Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) recommended a modified form of responsible government and a legislative union of Upper Canada, Lower Canada and the Maritime Provinces. He has been lauded in Canadian history for his recommendation to introduce responsible government. This was implemented and by 1847 Canada was a functioning democracy, as it has been ever since. He is less well considered for his idea of merging Upper and Lower Canada into one colony, since this was proposed with the express end of trying to encourage the extinction of the French language and culture through intermingling with the more numerous English. Indeed the Act of Union based on the report explicitly banned French in the parliament and in the courts. In the end, though, his recommendations discouraged assimilation. Once responsible government was achieved (1848), French Canadians in Canada East succeeded by voting as a bloc in ensuring that they were powerfully represented in any cabinet, especially as the politics of Canada West was highly factional. The resulting deadlock between Canada East and West led to a movement for federal rather than unitary government, which resulted in the creation of a federal state of Canada, incorporating New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in 1867. Family
The 1st Earl's family and personal fortune was derived largely from mining on lands surrounding Lambton Castle, the ancestral family home in County Durham. He was maternal grandson of the 4th Earl of Jersey and his wife, who was a mistress to the Prince of Wales, later George IV. Lord Durham's first marriage (1812) was to Harriet Cholmondeley (d. 1815), allegedly a natural daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley by his sometime mistress Grace Dalrymple Elliott, although the Prince of Wales also claimed paternity at her christening. Although from a good family, Grace Elliot, was a notorious courtesan who lived for some time with Philippe Egalite, the Duc d'Orleans who voted for the execution of his cousin Louis XVI. Durham and Harriet had three daughters who all died childless. His second marriage (1816) was to Lady Louisa Elizabeth Grey, eldest daughter of the Whig politician the 2nd Earl Grey, by whom he had 5 or 6 children. One of his daughters married another Governor General of Canada, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, who was later Viceroy of India; their son the 9th Earl of Elgin also became Viceroy of India, the only father and son to hold that office and position1. Another descendant, via his granddaughter Lady Lilian Margaret Lambton, is the late Alec Douglas-Home. As 14th Earl of Home. He was the last British Prime Minister from the House of Lords. Notes The only other pair of descendants were Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Baron Minto and his grandson Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, the 4th Earl. Surprisingly, he too had first served as Canadian Governor General, as Lord Elgin. External links Biography of Lord Durham from Marianopolis College Extensive sections of the Durham Report (1839) on the affairs of Canada Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online http://www.answers.com/topic/john-george-lambton-1st-earl-of-durham John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792-1840), was the tactless and energetic English statesman best known for his report on Canada, which laid the basis for the country's Dominion status. John George Lambton was born in London on April 12, 1792. After attending Eton College, he joined the dragoons in 1809 but resigned in 1811. From 1813 to 1828 he was a member of Parliament. In 1830 he was made a privy councilor, created a baron, and appointed lord privy seal, and he also entered the House of Lords. He had a hand in preparing the First Reform Bill of 1832. In the same year he was made ambassador extraordinary in succession to St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Berlin, and he was rewarded for his service by being created viscount the following year. For the next 2 years Lord Durham led the advanced Whigs but in 1835 went once again to St. Petersburg as ambassador to Russia. In 1837 Lord Durham returned home and in the next year was appointed high commissioner to Upper and Lower Canada and governor general of the British provinces in North America. Revolts in both Upper and Lower Canada in 1837-1838 had warned the British government that the Canadians were demanding responsible government and that the situation could not be ignored. Durham spent 6 months in Canada. He sent political prisoners to Bermuda - with which step he exceeded his orders - and it caused his fall. But upon his return to Britain, Lord Durham published his famous Report on the Affairs of British North America. In it he enunciated the principle that the executive branch in Canada would have to make its peace with local interests by instituting a system of responsible government, revising the land ownership laws, fostering immigration, and providing a system of municipal government. He also urged that Upper and Lower Canada be united so as to outnumber the French Canadians. Durham died shortly after his report was completed, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, on July 28, 1840. Energetic, vain, and high-spirited, Durham tried to keep the Canadian issue nonpartisan in British politics. It is arguable that it was not so much the tactless Durham who created responsible government as the able colonial secretaries and governors who followed him and implemented it. Further Reading The best biography of Durham is Leonard Cooper, Radical Jack: The Life of John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham (1959). The older works are Stuart J. Reid, Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham, 1792-1840 (2 vols., 1906), and Chester W. New, Lord Durham: A Biography of John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham (1929). For the place of the Durham report in the development of the British Empire see E. L. Woodward, The Age of Reform, 1815-1870 (1938; 2d ed. 1962), and C. E. Carrington, The British Overseas (1950; 2d ed. 1968). On 11 September 1837 the Right Hon John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham, was installed as PGM for Northumberland, becoming the first holder of the same office in both Northumberland and Durham. http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/mackeys_encyclopedia/p.htm PRO GRAND MASTER The Latin word pro to be translated for, or instep of, or on behalf of the Grand Master. An officer known only to the English system, and the title adopted for the first time in 1782, when, on the election of the Duke of Cambridge to the office of Grand Master, a regulation was adopted by the Grand Lodge of England, that whenever a Prince of the Blood accepted the office of Grand Master, he should be at liberty to nominate any peer of the realm to be the Acting Grand Master, and to this officer is now given the title of Pro Grand Master. His collar, jewel, and authority are the same as those of a Grand Master, and in the case of a vacancy he actually assumes the office until the next annual election. The following Brethren have been Pro Grand Masters: 1782-1789 Earl of Effingham 1790- 1813 Earl of Moira 1834-1838 Lord Dundas 1839-1840 Earl of Durham 1841-1843 Earl of Zetland 1874-1890 Earl of Carnarvon 1891-1898 Earl of Lathom 1898-1908 Earl Amherst 1908 Lord Ampthill ------------------ 40a - Henry John Spencer-Churchill, Lord; Deputy GM UGLE 1835 b. 22 Sep 1797, of Wormleighton, Warwickshire, England; d. 2 Jun 1840, on board HMS Dolphin in the China Sea; in action, unm. Great granduncle of Sir Winston Churchill
A captain in the Royal Navy, he was a member of the household of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex at the time when the Duke was Grand Master. He was a member of the prestigious Lodge of Antiquity No.2 and became Deputy Grand Master in 1835, when the Earl of Durham was compelled to resign on being appointed ambassador to Russia. Lord Henry had already been honoured with the rank of Past Senior Grand Warden in 1832 and served as President of the Board of General Purposes in 1834. On 2 September 1836 he was appointed Provincial Grand Master for Oxfordshire and served his Province well until his untimely death in action, on board HMS Dolphin in the China Sea, on 2 June 1840. A large, well-kept gravestone marks his burial in the rather small and hidden-away Protestant cemetery in Macao. His memory was immortalised in Churchill Lodge No. 702 (now No. 478), which was founded in 1841 in his honour.
41. 1843 - 1870 * Thomas Dundas, Earl of Zetland (Shetland), GM of UGLE for 27 years, 
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