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Col. Robert Townley Caldwell (1843 - 1914)
Provincial Grand Master 1891 - 1914
Robert Townley Caldwell was our second Provincial GM to have been born overseas. His father was Lt. Colonel of the renowned 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders. In 1843 the Regiment was in St. Ann's Barracks, Barbados, where Robert Townley was born. He remained a 'true son of the Regiment' in that he rose to command the 3rd Battalion of the cordons himself from 1891 to 95 and retained a strong connection with Aberdeen-shire, spending much time there at his house, Inneshewan. It was there in 1914 that, as he turned out from the avenue of Inneshewan House onto the highway, another car collided with his and he was flung from the car to the road. He suffered serious head injury and died the following day. He was 71 and much loved.
When he was installed as our Provincial Grand Master at the Guildhall in 1891, he took over a Province consisting of six Lodges with an overall membership of three hundred and eighty-six.
mark steady if unspectacular progress over the first century.
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"Cambridgeshire Encompassed",
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Provincial Grand Masters
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