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The Earl of Hardwicke (1836 - 1897)
Provincial Grand Master 1872 - 1891
On the 16th May 1872, the Marquess of Ripon signed the Patent appointing Charles Phillip Yorke, Viscount Royston, member of Himalayan Brotherhood Lodge No. 459, as Provincial Grand Master for Cambridgeshire. Since the appointment is the Grand Master’s prerogative, Viscount Royston was in fact our Provincial Grand Master from that date, although he was only installed as such at a meeting at 29½ Green Street in April, 1873. The meeting was a regular meeting of INUL, adjourned for Provincial Grand Lodge, then resumed and closed. He appears in our Yearbook as our PGM from that latter date. He was installed by John Deighton, the Deputy Provincial Grand Master who had taken over soon after the birth of the Lodge of United Good Fellowship and had been solely in charge since the death of T.H. Hall in 1870. Deighton served the Province well. Founder, Secretary, then Treasurer of Isaac Newton, Deputy PGM for twenty-three years and Grand Superintendent for a decade, he was the pillar of Cambridgeshire masonry for over quarter of a century. He helped in steering through the permission of Grand Lodge for a public procession of forty or fifty brethren of 88 and 441 to Great St. Mary’s in 1872.
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"Cambridgeshire Encompassed",
by kind permission of
W.Bro. Jim Whitehead
Provincial Grand Masters
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