Some Memorials Of The Globe Lodge, No.23, And Of The "Red Apron."

Earl of Macclesfield , and whose widow , Mrs . Elizabeth Lane , bequeathed it in 1753 to George Lane Parker , her grandson , younger son of the nobleman above-mentioned . It was from this gentleman that Webb acquired the freehold of the two houses and garden in 1764 . At this time the

front house was occupied , and had been for many years , by Thomas Hudson , a celebrated portrait painter , who is said to have taught Reynolds , afterwards Sir Joshua of that ilk . With him lived Thomas Worlidge , a miniature painter and etcher of equal celebrity , who died in 1766 , and whose widow

was living in the house for some years afterwards . It would thus appear that Webb never occupied the front house himself .

FltERMASONS' HALL MEDAL PRESENTED BY GRAND LODGE TO ALEXANDER McKOWL IN 17 S 2 . If you wish to know the kind of house Mr . Hudson lived in you have only to cross the road and turn

Westward a few yards , till you come opposite to the premises now occupied by Messrs . Hocking Bros ., and Messrs . Woolf and Son . These two houses , said to have been originally in one , bear a striking resemblance externally to the first Freemasons' Tavern , and are probably the oldest houses in this

neighbourhood . The author of " Old and New London " is evidently in error in stating that Hudson and Worlidge resided on the premises last mentioned , now Nos . 55 and 56 . Mrs . Elizabeth Lane , in describing her freehold property in her will , made in

1753 , referring to the two houses , says , " one of them being in my own occupation , and the other adjoining thereto , in the occupation of Mr . Hudson . " The title deeds of the property also show that the front house was formerly occupied by Mr . Hudson , painter , and later by Mr . Worlidge , and that the widow of the last-named gentleman was living in the same house in 1768 .

As the aristocratic residents migrated to the West , their places were taken by the next grade—professional men of high standing , wealthy Merchants , Judges , Doctors , and what we should now describe as the upper middle class , the social status of the inhabitants gradually descending until , I think , with a common lodging house staring us in the face ,

it is almost impossible to descend any lower , we may , therefore , now , reasonably hope for an improvement . Having up to now failed in my efforts to iind a portrait of the subject of the foregoing sketch , I concluded that the next best thing to do would be to reproduce a view of the line old Surrey mansion in which he lived for many years .

ALKXANDKK MCKOWL , PAST GRAXI * STEWARD . It may possibly interest the brethren to know that Bro . Alexander McKowl , the bricklayer previously mentioned , was a member of the Globe Lodge , but it must not be inferred that he was an ordinary workman , he was

a master bricklayer , who eventually contracted for doing the brick work in the erection of the Hall , and exceedingly well he did his work , for I am morally certain that not a brick or stone in the building has been found defective or required replacing since its completion in 1776 , except ,

of course , an occasional pointing of the walls . The British workmen of the present generation have , in my hearing , expressed decidedly warm testimony to the strength and

solidity of his work when they have had occasion to cut through the old walls in order to make new doorways . His bill for his part of the work amounted to . £ 1312 6 s . 6 d . Bro . McKowl was not only a good workman in an operative

sense , but he was also an ardent and zealous member of the Masonic Order . His place of residence was in Great Wild Street , at that period a very different kind of street to what it is now . I am unable to state definitely the Lodge in which he was initiated , but , for sundry reasons , I think it highly

probable it was the Globe Lodge . He seems to have had a partiality for The Globe Tavern , for , in 1766 , he joined another old Lodge there meeting on the first and third Mondays , this lodge being then held at the same house on the first Thursday . On the 12 th of July , 1775 , he joined , in company

with his friend and neighbour , Dight , the carpenter , a Lodge held at The Crown and Horse-shoe in Bartlet ' s Buildings , Holborn . This Lodge was at once removed to The Freemasons' Tavern , and named The Foundation Stone Lodge ( its first name ) , doubtless in commemoration of the Laying ot the Foundation Stone of the Freemasons' Hall . It was

the first Lodge to hold its meetings on the Grand Lodge premises , and for many years was very prosperous , being joined by most of the officials and the tradesmen employed by the Grand Lodge . It lapsed , however , about 1805 , and the warrant was transferred to Abingdon in 1807 , thence to Cheltenham in 1817 , where it is now held as The Foundation

Lodge , No . 82 . In 1769 , Bro . McKowl joined the Corinthian Lodge , then held at The While Hart in the Strand , and about this period he is credited with £ 2 2 s . to the Fund then being raised for the purchase of Furniture and Jewels for the Grand Lodge .

I 1775 , he joined the Grand Stewards' Lodge , it being customary in those clays for all Grand Stewards to be members of that Lodge during their term of office .

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