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Post by offramp on May 12, 2018 8:50:24 GMT
Whenever UGLE has a membership drive it inevitably includes a list of "Famous" Freemasons. It is always the same people: Churchill, Sellers, Roosevelt, Kipling...
But there are so many better, more deserving people to go on such a list.
Here is a thread for those that I think are better representatives: Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, the tea guy. Madeleine Pelletier (18 May 1874 – 29 December 1939) was "a French physician, psychiatrist, first-wave feminist, and socialist activist". Alexander Alekhine, the fourth World Chess Champion. Augustus John Smith (15 September 1804 – 31 July 1872), philanthropist who renovated the Scilly Islands. Michael Baigent, co-author of the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Don Bradman, Australian cricketer.
I'll add some more as I think of them.
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Post by offramp on May 12, 2018 8:52:03 GMT
Shaquille O'Neill, US basketball player. Michael Richards, US comedian.
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Post by offramp on May 21, 2018 16:47:10 GMT
Edward Jenner, 17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823. He is the vaccine guy. He annihilated smallpox and saved millions of lives.
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Post by offramp on May 22, 2018 13:17:11 GMT
Federico García Lorca, 5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936, Spanish poet.
Charles Ingalls, 10 January 1836 – 8 June 1902, the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who we all know and love for her Little House on the Prairie books. Charles Ingalls is depicted as Pa, portrayed by Michael Landon in the television series, but I can't remember any mention of Freemasonry in the series, and I never read the books.
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Post by offramp on Jul 3, 2018 15:41:13 GMT
Arthur Drewery was the 5th President of FIFA, the International Football thing.
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Post by offramp on Aug 7, 2018 14:17:46 GMT
Yesterday, chef Joël Robuchon passed to the Great Festive Board in the Sky.
He was a French chef who had many restaurants in the Far East. I believe he mentored Gordon Ramsay among others.
He had more Michelin stars than anyone else.
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Post by offramp on Aug 13, 2018 4:27:35 GMT
There may soon be a biopic for Lt Col Paddy Mayne, founder of the SAS who died aged just 40 while returning from a meeting with fellow Freemasons.
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Post by offramp on Aug 14, 2018 14:17:37 GMT
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Post by offramp on Aug 16, 2018 10:14:30 GMT
Sadly, Wikipedia has very little to say about Archie Montgomery who died on June 14th, 2018.
Although he was a devoted Scot through and through, in 1989 he became Assistant Grand Master of the UGLE.
His wife called him “a good egg”.
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Post by offramp on Sept 5, 2018 18:31:04 GMT
On this day in 1796 Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen was born.
The wikipedia entry gives details of his Masonic membership, which influenced his life tremendously: it was not just a side issue. He was initiated by Prince William of Orange himself.
He did many great things, but the foundation of the Université Libre de Bruxelles must be his major achievement.
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Post by offramp on Oct 7, 2018 10:55:04 GMT
The great French soldier and statesman Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune was famous for defeating the British at the Battle of Capsicum. He later became a Marshal of France.Is that clear?
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Post by offramp on Nov 5, 2018 16:43:08 GMT
A bit of a vandal, but a nice man, was Giovanni Belzoni.
He was an archaeologist.
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Post by offramp on Nov 11, 2018 17:05:00 GMT
The man who gave Australia its name was a Freemason. Freemasonry Today had a page about him a while ago: the explorer Matthew Flinders the explorer (told you).
He has a statue at London Euston Station, near where he is thought to be buried.
Can you see what he has in his hand?
Here is a picture of the statue in situ.
He is certainly worth reading up about. He was obviously a big fan of his coffee.
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Post by offramp on Nov 25, 2018 8:31:55 GMT
The British actor Harry H Corbett was a member of Chevin Lodge No 6848 in Otley, West Yorkshire. As I have mentioned in another thread, Masonry is occasionally mentioned in the comedy Steptoe & Son.
I don't know if his namesake, Harry Corbett, was a Freemason. He is the guy that was the propulsive power behind Sooty & Sweep.
As I mention later, the Sooty & Sweep Harry Corbett was a Freemason. The Steptoe & Son Harry H Corbett was NOT a Freemason.
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Post by offramp on Jan 7, 2019 12:39:35 GMT
Albert Bierstadt was a painter who did landscapes of the old west of the USA.
He was a member of Holland Lodge No. 8 in New York.
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Post by offramp on Jan 22, 2019 21:10:53 GMT
One of the greatest men of the enlightenment: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
He was one of those great Freemasons, like Kipling and Mozart, whose work and Freemasonry were completely intertwined.
A major contributor to the vast effect that Freemasonry has had on the evolution of the human race.
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Post by offramp on Jan 25, 2019 3:36:05 GMT
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Post by offramp on Jan 29, 2019 12:46:06 GMT
The British actor Harry H Corbett was a member of Chevin Lodge No 6848 in Otley, West Yorkshire. As I have mentioned in another thread, Masonry is occasionally mentioned in the comedy Steptoe & Son.
I don't know if his namesake, Harry Corbett, was a Freemason. He is the guy that was the propulsive power behind Sooty & Sweep. i am afraid this post requires a total bouleversement. Harry H Corbett, the actor famous for Steptoe & Son, was probably not a Freemason. Harry Corbett, the secret hand behind both Sooty AND Sweep, was definitely a Freemason.
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Post by offramp on Feb 5, 2019 15:50:57 GMT
Here is the wikipedia entry for André Citroën which is unusual in that it beginsIt begins with his Masonic membership alongside his métier. I am not the editor who wrote that!
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Post by offramp on Feb 5, 2019 16:02:38 GMT
Quondam captain of my least favourite football team, which thankfully no longer exists. Alistair McCoist was initiated into Lodge Thorntree 512 in Thornliebank, Glasgow in 1984. He was aged only 22!
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