ENGLISH FREEMASONS
DUKE OF CONNAUGHT DECISION TO RETIRE DUKE OF KENT SUCCEEDS LONDON, Dec. 10. At the quarterly meeting of the Mark Grand Lodge, of Freemasons, it was announced that the Duke of Connaught, who has been Grand Master since 1901, did not desire to be re-elected. His decision was received with great regret. The Duke of Kent was nominated as his successor. The following letter from the Duke of Connaught was read by Lord Stradbroke, Pro Grand Master of Mark Grand Lodge, who presided. “Brethren, —You have done me the honour of electing me your Grand Master for 38 years in succession, and 1 thank you for giving me the opportunity of serving the Mark Grand Lodge in this office for so long a period. It is with great regret that 1 now feel obliged to ask you to look to a younger man to undertake these duties from the end of the current year in March next. “Of the many and varied interests which have occupied me during a long life, I look back upon none with greater affection and satisfaction than my association with Freemasonry, and for the remainder of my days 1 shah watch its progress with unabated interest. The encouragement which I have received from all my brethren since my advancement in 1877 and the support which has been so abundantly given to me during my Grand Matteiship have created in my breast an undying love of the order and of the principles which it teaches.’ “I am confident that you will choose as my successor a brother who will carry on with energy the work which I have tried to do, and in bringing to a close my tenure of the office of Grand Master I prey the Great Overseer of the Universe that the high standing of Freemasonry will be maintained and its prosperity increased under His leadership. ’ The Duke of Kent was nominated as Grand Master for the ensuing year by Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter King of Arms, the Master of the Eton and Harrow Mark Lodge. The Duke of Kent is a member of the Grana Masters’ Lodge, and in the Craft is Provincial Grand Master for Wiltshire.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 7
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