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Toboso
Aug 9, 2020 16:36:52 GMT
Post by offramp on Aug 9, 2020 16:36:52 GMT
I was having a wander around the internet looking for things related to Jacobite Freemasonry. A new thing for me was the Order of Toboso.
Apparently this Order was created as an amusement in Rome for the 11-year old Prince Charles Stuart.
There is a place called Toboso, but it is in the Philippines. The name in fact derives from a woman's surname in Don Quixote.
It is worth looking in to.
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Toboso
Aug 11, 2020 23:04:00 GMT
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Post by FireMist on Aug 11, 2020 23:04:00 GMT
Interesting
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Toboso
Sept 10, 2020 22:58:53 GMT
Post by boreades on Sept 10, 2020 22:58:53 GMT
I was having a wander around the internet looking for things related to Jacobite Freemasonry. A new thing for me was the Order of Toboso.
Apparently this Order was created as an amusement in Rome for the 11-year old Prince Charles Stuart.. There may be a connection with Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre MacDonald, 1st Duke of Taranto. The son of Neil MacEachen, who with Flora MacDonald, helped Prince Charles Edward Stuart escape from Scotland. Jacques MacDonald was Napolean's Scottish Field Marshall. He was (for a while) Governor of Rome, and may have aid the formation of Freemasonary in Italy. In his diary, while describing a visit made later to visit his ancestral Scotland in peacetime, he makes clear his own masonic position.
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Toboso
Sept 10, 2020 23:05:02 GMT
Post by boreades on Sept 10, 2020 23:05:02 GMT
A few days earlier, 11th June 1825, in London.
The translated diary briefly mentions a dinner in London the same day, with some interesting characters: • Sir Archibald MacDonald • Lord Clanranald (Ranald George Macdonald) • General MacDonald (adjutant to the Duke of York) • Lt-General Murray • General Major Doyle • Sir John Sinclair • Duke of Sussex (as Count of Inverness)
Family connections (other MacDonalds) are to be expected, and Sir John Sinclair (married to Diana MacDonald). But there’s more.
General Major Doyle was Deputy Grand Master of the Prince of Wales Lodge, Orange Lodge 116, Lodge of Fellowship No. 84, Guernsey
Duke of Sussex (as Count of Inverness) was the Grand Master of UGLE.
The Duke of Sussex is famous as the first Grand Master of the UGLE, founded on St John’s Day, 27 December 1813. On the same day, the Lodge of Reconciliation was also founded. Was the Duke continuing that work, by reaching out to French masons?
Some pictures of Marshall Macdonald also show him wearing Knights Templer regalia.
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