Grand Masters of the United Grand Lodge of England [ugle] and of Scotland
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- George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, 3rd Earl de Grey
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during which period Freemason’s Hall in Great Queen Street, London, was substantially rebuilt and extended. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dundas%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Zetland < Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland as Grand Master, from Vanity Fair, 1869. KG (February 5, 1795) – (May 6, 1873) was a British politician and nobleman. Born in Marylebone, London, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1818 he was elected Whig Member of Parliament for his father and grandfather's old seat of Richmond, becoming representative for York twelve years later. In 1835 he returned to Parliament as member for Richmond, and four years later succeeded his father as second Earl of Zetland. 
Like his father a prominent freemason, Lord Zetland was the United Grand Lodge of England Grand Master from 1844 to 1870. In the year of his succession to the earldom he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1861 became a Knight of the Thistle. He resigned the Order on being made a Knight of the Garter in 1872, and died the following year at Aske Hall, Yorkshire. Aske Hall > http://web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/tom.paterson/places/SAfalkII.htm The estate of Kerse, now belonging to the Earl of Zetland, was formerly the property of the family of Hope. In 1638, it was purchased by Sir Thomas Hope, King's Advocate, from Sir William Livingstone of Kilsyth. By destination it fell to his second son, Sir Thomas Hope, one of the Lords of Session, and afterwards Lord Justice-General. The estate was purchased many years ago by Lawrence Dundas, Esq., merchant in Edinburgh, who was created a Baronet in 1762; and, in 1794, his son, Sir Thomas, was advanced to the Peerage under the title of Lord Dundas. He died in 1820, and was succeeded by his son, Lawrence, who, in 1838, had conferred on him the title of Earl of Zetland. In consequence of his death in the following year, the estate and honours devolved on his son, Thomas, the present Earl. Kerse House, the seat of the Earl of Zetland, is pleasantly situated in the middle of a finely wooded park, and is the chief ornament of the eastern Carse. The original part of the building is ancient, but successive additions have been made to suit the convenience or taste of the possessor. Its present appearance is of a mansion of the Elizabethan times. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Upleatham/Upleatham90.html There are also two very neat dissenting chapels in the village of Upleatham, one belonging to the Wesleyans, a freestone building, erected in 1862; the other to the Primitive Methodists, a brick structure, built in 1863. The School is an attractive building, erected and endowed by the late Earl of Zetland. A short distance from the village is Upleatham Hall, one of the residences of the Earl of Zetland. It is a handsome modern mansion, with a pleasant southern aspect, and sheltered on the north by rising ground, oruamentally laid out, and on the east by luxuriant plantations. The other seats of the noble owner are Aske Hall, Richmond, Kerse House, Stirling, N.B., and 9, Arlington Street, Piccadilly, London. http://www.elliottdundas.freeserve.co.uk/zetland/record_92.htm#part10 Son of: Dundas Laurence and Hale Harriet, born on: o Thursday 5 February 1795. Educated Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. died on: † Tuesday 6 May 1873. Buried at Marske. Lieutenant of North Riding, Yorkshire; Grand Master of the Freemans of England; M.P. Richmond 1818-1830 and 1835-39, York 1830-32 and 1833-34. The Dundas family loom large in the history of Yorkshire racing and breeding. The famous 'Aske Spots' colour of the Dundas/Zetland family were first registered in 1774. The 2nd Earl bred the immortal Voltigeur to win the Derby and St.Leger of 1850, indeed there is a Voltigeur memorial gate at Aske Hall. Williamson Sophia Jane x Saturday 6 September 1823 No issue and Thomas was therefore succeeded by his nephew ; Lawrence Dundas (1st Marquess of Zetland) http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Bios2/Bios-UV/Vedette.htm 
< Vedette Prior to his turf career he was purchased by Mr. "Billy" Williamson for his brother-in-law Thomas Dundas (1795-1873), 2nd Earl of Zetland, of Aske Hall, Richmond, Yorkshire. Lord Zetland also owned his sire, Voltigeur. He was said to have a "very beautiful action" and was blessed with both speed and stamina, although troubled by rheumatism. Mr. Williamson thought that but for his rheumatism he would never have been defeated, as he was by far the best horse of his day. He lost only two races during his three seasons on the turf, finishing second each of those times. Among his victories were the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, the Doncaster Cup (twice), the Great Yorkshire Stakes and the Ebor Handicap.
The Dundas family provided the Provincial Grand Master for Yorkshire, North and East Ridings, for a total of 167 years. Lawrence, 1st Earl of Zetland was installed as Provincial Grand Master in 1817; the last to hold the office, Lawrence Aldred, 3rd Marquess of Zetland, retired in 1984. ----------------- 42. ca 1870 - 1874 * George Robinson, Lord Ripon, son of Frederick, Earl Grey [Whig Prime Minister 1830-1834]. Robinson resigned as GM of UGLE in 1874 in order to join the Catholic Church, subsequent to which he became Viceroy of India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Robinson%2C_1st_Marquess_of_Ripon The Most Honourable George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, 3rd Earl de Grey PC, KG (24 October 1827 – 9 July 1909) was a British politician who served in every Liberal cabinet from 1861 until his death forty-eight years later. He had no career other than politics. < Lord Ripon as Viceroy of India, from a 1880 magazine R  obinson was born at 10 Downing Street, London (the Prime Minister's residence), the second son of the Prime Minister, Lord Goderich. Although his father had been a Tory, he was first a Whig and later a Liberal. He entered the House of Commons as member for Hull in 1852, and later sat for Huddersfield and the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1859 he succeeded his father as Earl of Ripon and Viscount Goderich, taking his seat in the House of Lords, and later that year succeeded a cousin in the more senior title of Earl de Grey.
In 1861 de Grey first took office, and was then a member of every Liberal Cabinet until his death. In 1863, he was made a Privy Counsellor. He was Secretary of State for War (1863–66) under Palmerston and Secretary of State for India in 1866 under Russell. In Gladstone's first administration he was Lord President of the Council (1868–73). During this period he acted as chairman of the joint commission for drawing up the Treaty of Washington with the United States. For this he was created Marquess of Ripon. He was also made a Knight of the Garter in 1869. In 1874 Ripon converted to Catholicism. When Gladstone returned to power in 1880 he appointed Ripon Viceroy of India, and he held this office until 1884. During his time in India, Ripon introduced legislation (the "Ilbert Bill," named for his secretary) that would have granted native Indians more legal rights, including the right of Indian judges to judge Europeans in court. Though progressive in its intent, this legislation was gutted by British lawmakers who dreaded losing their legal superiority. In Gladstone's 1886 government he was First Lord of the Admiralty, and in that of 1892–95 he was Secretary of State for the Colonies. When the Liberals again returned to power in 1905 he took office, aged 78, as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. He resigned in 1908. He was Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1904 until his death in 1909. A devout Catholic, Ripon was generous in educational and charitable works. He was president of the Society of St Vincent de Paul from 1899 until his death and a great supporter of St. Joseph's Catholic Missionary Society. In 1851 he married his cousin Henrietta Vyner: they had two children. He was:
2nd Earl of Ripon 1859–1909 4th Baron Grantham 1859 Secretary of State for War 1863–1866 Secretary of State for India 1866 Lord President of the Council 1868–1873 Viceroy of India 1880–1884 First Lord of the Admiralty 1886 Secretary of State for the Colonies 1892–1895 Lord Privy Seal 1905–1908 Leader of the House of Lords 1905–1908 Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire 1873–1909 Chancellor of the University of Leeds 1904–1909. http://www.linshaw.ca/omtp/vol4no9.html Lord George had been born at 10 Downing Street while his father was Prime Minister. In 1849 at age twenty-two, he was initiated into the Christian Socialist movement. Among the leaders of that movement were Charles Kingsley, F. D. Maurice, and Thomas Hughes. The movement supported the engineers' strike in 1852 in Lancashire and London. Robinson gave £500 to the Working Men's College in his efforts to promote advanced education for the laboring classes. He was the author of a plea for democracy, "The Duty of the Age," but the Publications Committee of the movement ordered the suppression of the manuscript. He was a strong supporter of the volunteer armed forces and was appointed honorary colonel of the First Volunteer Battalion of the Prince of Wales' West Yorkshire Regiment. Active in politics, he was a Member of Parliament for Hull in July 1852 but was unseated on the grounds of treating. In April 1853 he was elected a Member of Parliament from Huddersfield and held his seat for four years and, in 1857, was returned without opposition. In 1859, upon the death of his father, he assumed the title and occupied his seat in the House of Lords. In Palmerston's administration, he was Under-Secretary of War in 1859 and on April 13, 1863, was appointed Secretary of War with a seat in the Cabinet and was admitted to the Privy Council. He succeeded Sir Charles Wood as head of the Indian Office in 1866 and under Prime Minister Gladstone in 1868 became President of the Council. He was selected in 1871 to head up the American/British commission to settle the claims resulting from the Civil War in the United States. The primary claims came from the action of United States and Confederate naval vessels upon British commercial ships. For his exceptionally fine work on the commission, he was honored by the Queen by being created Marquis of Ripon. During March 1873 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of North Fiding. In August of that same year he resigned his cabinet post giving as his reason "urgent private affairs." "The Dictionary of National Biography" provides an explanation: "Hitherto he had been a zealous Freemason, and on 23 April 1870 had become Grand Master of the Freemasons in England. That office he resigned without explanation in August 1874. Next month, on 7 September, he was received into the Roman catholic communion at the Brompton Orator. The step, which caused widespread astonishment, was the fruit of anxious thought."[9] It should be noted that under the law of the Roman Catholic Church, no Roman Catholic was permitted to be a member of the Masonic fraternity. Ripon's acceptance of that faith quite automatically meant that he must sever all associations with the fraternity. On Gladstone's return to power in 1880, Ripon once again became quite active in public life. At a testimonial dinner at the Savoy Hotel given him in November 1908, about a year before his death, in his farewell address to his political friends he said, "I started at a high level of radicalism. I am a radical still.[10] During the first half of a long and active career in political life, Ripon had been a Freemason and it was only subsequent to his change in religion that he resigned his membership. The royal family was again in the front ranks of British Freemasonry upon the resignation of the Marquis of Ripon as Grand Master in 1874. His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, was installed as Grand Master in 1874 and served in that capacity until 1901. (In 1901, he became Edward VII, King of England.) In that year, His Royal Highness Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, the third son of Queen Victoria, was installed as Grand Master and served until 1939. 
Dec 1874 - 1901 * Albert Edward of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England. He was the son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Electing to resign his office [as GM of UGLE] on his accession to the throne in 1901, Edward remained Protector of the Order.
Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince of Wales, and has the distinction of having been heir apparent to the throne longer than anyone in English or British history. Edward's reign, now called the Edwardian period, saw the first official recognition of the office of the Prime Minister. He became the first British monarch to visit Russia (1908). Edward also played a role in the modernization of the British Home Fleet and the reform of the Army Medical Services, after the Second Boer War. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> history files -> Nstructions for Acquiring Excess Equipment online, through the 1033 Program files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status history -> History of the Third Masonic District Grand Lodge of the State of New York history -> Freemasons of New York State in the Civil War history -> Grand Lodge of New York Masonic Lodge Histories Lodge Nos. 201-230 Download 7.35 Mb. Share with your friends:
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