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Article BROTHER PHILIP BROADFOOT. ← Page 2 of 6 →
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Brother Philip Broadfoot.
To every admirer of Freemasonry , more especially to those Brethren who participated in the enjoyments of the festival held in honour of Brother Broadfoot , the relation of the circumstance must convey feelings of no ordinary gratification . We hail this unprecedented compliment to private virtue and public worth , as truly honourable to the Craft . To the statesman and the soldier , whose services in the cabinet or
glories in the field , render them alike just claimants of a nation ' s gratitude , a generous and discerning public will award its thanks by honours and distinction , but to the humble individual whose energies are directed to the pursuit and practice of moral truth and virtue , the true Mason can and will offer a nobler boon—the homage of a heart devoted to such principles , and a spirit steadfastly directed towards their dissemination .
Such a reward every Brother will feel due to Broadfoot , to the precepts of a well-directed mind he will unite the bright examples of such a character , in the anxious observances of which he cannot fail to sustain his own dignity as a man and a Freemason . On Thursday , the 5 th instant , a numerous and highly respectable body of the Fraternity , consisting of about one hundred , assembled at
the George and Vulture Tavern , Comhill , for the purpose of partaking of a dinner given in compliment to Brother Broadfoot , previous to his retirement from the metropolis .
Brother R . T . Crucefix , M . D ., in the Chair . The doctor was supported on both sides by many other distinguished Masons , amongst whom we noticed Brother Masson , G . S . B . ; Brothers Baumer , Acklam , Hawley , Price , and Key , of the Grand Stewards' Lodge ; Brothers Lythgoe , Fenn , Malyn , P . Thompson , Dowley , & c , including Brother Watkins the W . M . and Officers of the Bank of England Lodge ,
and nearly all the Stewards of the day . Brother Broadfoot was seated on the immediate right of the chair , dressed in full masonic costume , as were also the majority of the Brethren present . The usual masonic toasts were drank with affectionate and loyal acclamation , especially the health of her majesty the Queen , ivhich tbe Chairman took the opportunity of prefacing , by alluding to the festival occurring on the natal day of that illustrious lady , the Patroness of the Female Charity . The Chairman then rose to propose the health of the Brother in
honour of whom they had that day met . Prompted , as he was , by feelings of the warmest friendship , he should yet consider he exceeded his duty if he allowed those feelings to carry him into any superfluous or adulatory remarks . Pie was satisfied , however , that he could not better demonstrate to the Brethren the worth and merits of the individual in question , than by a brief retrospection of his masonic career .
For five-and-twenty years had Brother Broadfoot continued zealous and indefatigable in the cause of Masonry , and that too under great and trying difficulties . From the first hour of his initiation his heart ( pre-VOL . II . c ;
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Brother Philip Broadfoot.
To every admirer of Freemasonry , more especially to those Brethren who participated in the enjoyments of the festival held in honour of Brother Broadfoot , the relation of the circumstance must convey feelings of no ordinary gratification . We hail this unprecedented compliment to private virtue and public worth , as truly honourable to the Craft . To the statesman and the soldier , whose services in the cabinet or
glories in the field , render them alike just claimants of a nation ' s gratitude , a generous and discerning public will award its thanks by honours and distinction , but to the humble individual whose energies are directed to the pursuit and practice of moral truth and virtue , the true Mason can and will offer a nobler boon—the homage of a heart devoted to such principles , and a spirit steadfastly directed towards their dissemination .
Such a reward every Brother will feel due to Broadfoot , to the precepts of a well-directed mind he will unite the bright examples of such a character , in the anxious observances of which he cannot fail to sustain his own dignity as a man and a Freemason . On Thursday , the 5 th instant , a numerous and highly respectable body of the Fraternity , consisting of about one hundred , assembled at
the George and Vulture Tavern , Comhill , for the purpose of partaking of a dinner given in compliment to Brother Broadfoot , previous to his retirement from the metropolis .
Brother R . T . Crucefix , M . D ., in the Chair . The doctor was supported on both sides by many other distinguished Masons , amongst whom we noticed Brother Masson , G . S . B . ; Brothers Baumer , Acklam , Hawley , Price , and Key , of the Grand Stewards' Lodge ; Brothers Lythgoe , Fenn , Malyn , P . Thompson , Dowley , & c , including Brother Watkins the W . M . and Officers of the Bank of England Lodge ,
and nearly all the Stewards of the day . Brother Broadfoot was seated on the immediate right of the chair , dressed in full masonic costume , as were also the majority of the Brethren present . The usual masonic toasts were drank with affectionate and loyal acclamation , especially the health of her majesty the Queen , ivhich tbe Chairman took the opportunity of prefacing , by alluding to the festival occurring on the natal day of that illustrious lady , the Patroness of the Female Charity . The Chairman then rose to propose the health of the Brother in
honour of whom they had that day met . Prompted , as he was , by feelings of the warmest friendship , he should yet consider he exceeded his duty if he allowed those feelings to carry him into any superfluous or adulatory remarks . Pie was satisfied , however , that he could not better demonstrate to the Brethren the worth and merits of the individual in question , than by a brief retrospection of his masonic career .
For five-and-twenty years had Brother Broadfoot continued zealous and indefatigable in the cause of Masonry , and that too under great and trying difficulties . From the first hour of his initiation his heart ( pre-VOL . II . c ;