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Sketch Of The Life Of Thomas Dunckerley, Esq. P.G.M.
Chesterfield , Lord Harcourt , Lord Valentia , Sir Edward WaIpol $ , Sir Edward Hawke , and Mr . Worsley . In 17 6 S by the Duke of Grafton , the Marquis of Granby and Lord Townshend , and afterwards by Lord Bruce ( now Earl of Aylesbury ) , Lord North , Mr-Robinson , Mr . Brummell , Mr . Richard Burke , Mr . Blackburn a merchant in the cityand Mr . Heseltineour worthy Grand
, , Treasurer ; and though "last not least , " by General Hotbam and Colonel I-Iuise , to whom he expresses himself hig hly obliged by their kindness and personal attention . He married early in life , being nov / m the sixty-ninth year of his age , near forty-nine of which have been spent in wedlock ; his ladwho is worthof such a valuable husbandis some
y , every way y , few years older than he is , and enjoys a good share of health and spirits . Having last year , in his masonic character , laid the first etone of a new ° church at Southampton , he jocularly observed , " that if the structure were completed by the time be bad completed fifty years in wedlock , he should think himself justified in following the practice of some nations he had travelled in , viz . of handsel the church b
keeping a Jubilee year , and in that case new y . being re-married in it . " Previous to the appropriation . of Somerset House to its present tise , Mr . Dunckerley had apartments therein , since then , he generally resides at his apartments in Hampton-Court Palace , and , by the " munificence of his Soverei the Prince of Walesand Duke
gn , , of York , has the honour and happiness to be in a very comfortable situation , and , to crown all , we shall add in his own words , " that he has been blessed with the friendship of that Great Being who never faileth those that seek him . " That he may long , very long , continue to enjoy these blessings , and be ornament to a Society which has received the
testian mony of approbation from the good and great in all ages , is the free , fervent , and zealous wish of bis humble Biographer and thousands of others , who deem it none of the least of the prerogatives of Free Masonry to call this excellent Man by the mast friendly of all titles—A BROTHER .
"SIR , " THE kind communication of His Majesty ' s benevolence ' and goodness made me as happy , as the frequent reflections 1 made npon ° unmerited distress , before this event , gave me sincere
concern . " I cannot divine to what channel you owe that piece of good fortune ; if in any degree to one person * , to whom I mentioned your affair ( whose benevolence of heart and public virtues I know are only obscured by public prejudice ) , I may have possibly been in a small degree an instrument of conveying to the knowledge of ons
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Sketch Of The Life Of Thomas Dunckerley, Esq. P.G.M.
Chesterfield , Lord Harcourt , Lord Valentia , Sir Edward WaIpol $ , Sir Edward Hawke , and Mr . Worsley . In 17 6 S by the Duke of Grafton , the Marquis of Granby and Lord Townshend , and afterwards by Lord Bruce ( now Earl of Aylesbury ) , Lord North , Mr-Robinson , Mr . Brummell , Mr . Richard Burke , Mr . Blackburn a merchant in the cityand Mr . Heseltineour worthy Grand
, , Treasurer ; and though "last not least , " by General Hotbam and Colonel I-Iuise , to whom he expresses himself hig hly obliged by their kindness and personal attention . He married early in life , being nov / m the sixty-ninth year of his age , near forty-nine of which have been spent in wedlock ; his ladwho is worthof such a valuable husbandis some
y , every way y , few years older than he is , and enjoys a good share of health and spirits . Having last year , in his masonic character , laid the first etone of a new ° church at Southampton , he jocularly observed , " that if the structure were completed by the time be bad completed fifty years in wedlock , he should think himself justified in following the practice of some nations he had travelled in , viz . of handsel the church b
keeping a Jubilee year , and in that case new y . being re-married in it . " Previous to the appropriation . of Somerset House to its present tise , Mr . Dunckerley had apartments therein , since then , he generally resides at his apartments in Hampton-Court Palace , and , by the " munificence of his Soverei the Prince of Walesand Duke
gn , , of York , has the honour and happiness to be in a very comfortable situation , and , to crown all , we shall add in his own words , " that he has been blessed with the friendship of that Great Being who never faileth those that seek him . " That he may long , very long , continue to enjoy these blessings , and be ornament to a Society which has received the
testian mony of approbation from the good and great in all ages , is the free , fervent , and zealous wish of bis humble Biographer and thousands of others , who deem it none of the least of the prerogatives of Free Masonry to call this excellent Man by the mast friendly of all titles—A BROTHER .
"SIR , " THE kind communication of His Majesty ' s benevolence ' and goodness made me as happy , as the frequent reflections 1 made npon ° unmerited distress , before this event , gave me sincere
concern . " I cannot divine to what channel you owe that piece of good fortune ; if in any degree to one person * , to whom I mentioned your affair ( whose benevolence of heart and public virtues I know are only obscured by public prejudice ) , I may have possibly been in a small degree an instrument of conveying to the knowledge of ons