Macclesfield and Congleton Freemasonry

Famous Masons

Written by Eric Mole

Friday, 15 June 2007

Monarchs King George IV (1762 - 1830) King William IV (1765 - 1837) King Edward VII (1841 - 1910) King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972) King George VI (1895 - 1952)	Statesmen Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) George Canning (1770 - 1827) Lord Randolph Churchill (1849 - 1895) Cecil Rhodes (1852 - 1903) Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Leopold S. Amery (1873 - 1955)	Religion Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (1887 - 1972) Sir Israel Brodie (1895 - 1979) Sir Joseph Banks (1744 - 1820)
Scientists Dr Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823) Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955) Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877 - 1947)	Explorers Sir Richard Burton (1821 - 1890) Capt Robert Falcon Scott, RN (1868 - 1912) Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922)	Charity Dr T. J. Barnardo (1845 - 1905) 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851 - 1925) Sir William "Billy" Butlin (1899 - 1980)
Writers Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Edward Gibbon (1734 - 1794) Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) Robbie Burns (1759 - 1796) Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) Sir William S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) Actors David Garrick (1717 - 1779) Edmund Kean (1787 - 1833) Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905) Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902 - 1968) Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) Sir Micheal Caine (1933- )	Artists Sir James Thornhill (1676 - 1734) William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) John Zoffany (1733 - 1810) Sir John Soane (1753 - 1837) Entertainers Tommy Cooper Jim Davidson Cyril Fletcher Jeremy Beadle Ken Dodd Sir Harry Lauder Alfred Marks David Nixon Edmundo Ross Joe Pasquale Tommy Trinder Jimmy Wheeler Roger de Courcey	Music Thomas Arne (1710 -1778) (Rule Britannia) Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) Sir Henry Bishop (1786 -1855) (Home sweet home) Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 -1900) Sportsmen Harold Abrahams Jackie Milburn Sir Donald Campbell Malcolm Campbell Sir Leonard Hutton Jock Stein Sir Alec Rose Sir Clive Lloyd Jim Peters Sir Arthur Gold Trevor Simpson Len Shackleton Joe Wade Leslie Compton Herbert Sutcliffe
Army General Sir John Moore (1761 - 1809) Field Marshal 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852) Field Marshal Viscount Combermere (1779-1886) Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832 - 1914) Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850 - 1916) Field Marshal Sir John French, Earl of Ypres (1852 - 1925) Field Marshal Earl Haig (1861 - 1928) General Sir Francis Wingate (1861 -1953) Field Marshal Garnett, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1883 - 1913 Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884 - 1981) Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891 - 1969)	Royal Air Force Marshal of the RAF Lord Newall (1886 - 1963) Reginald Joseph Mitchell, (1895-1937) A Freemason from Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, the designer of the Spitfire Fighter Plane.	Bill Bowes Sir Thomas Lipton William 'Jack' Dempsey Tony Allcock Peter Ebdon Geoff Capes Royal Navy Admiral Sir Sidney Smith (1764 - 1840) Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (1841 - 1919) Admiral Earl Jellicoe (1859 - 1935

Listed above are just some of the many famous British Freemasons

If,
by Rudyard Kippling, a famous Freemason

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,

If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: Hold on!

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much,

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!