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phreys , Lewis , Price , Robinson , Thomas , Willis and Wood , — five ; Anderson , Andrews , Butler , Campbell , Carter , Cox , Green , Heming , Hutchinson , Jackson , Kent , Lancaster , Norris , Read , Ross , Thompson , Turner and Wright , — -four . I have not thought it worth while to enumerate the twos and threes of the same surname or the list might have been

considerably extended , and I venture to think that enough has been done to indicate that from its earliest days the Lodge of Emulation may be considered as a " Family Lodge . " Amongst the present members , the W . Master has two sons , P . M . W . J . Lancaster has three , while John Bartlett , J . W .,

Frederick Fisher , P . G . S ., and Thomas J . Grylls , J . D ., have each a son in the Lodge . The reader of the preceding pages will doubtless have noted that during the latter half of the i 8 th Century , several Aldermen of the City of London were members of the

Lodge , one , —Sir Watkin Lewes—having been initiated while occupying the civic chair in 1781 . Owing to the absence of the Lodge records prior to 1756 , and the gap in the Grand Lodge Register between 1730 and about 1770 , it is impossible to state definitely that the Honourable Thomas Harley , initiated in 1761 , was the first Lord Mayor to become

a member of the Lodge . Sir Richard Glynn , Lord Mayor in 1758 , joined the Lodge in 1761 . Alderman Nathaniel Newnham ( Lord Mayor in 1782-3 ) , was initiated in 1781 , on the same evening as Alderman Barnard Turner , of the Lodge of Rural Friendship , was raised to the third degree . Claudius

Stephen Hunter ( Lord Mayor in 1811-12 ) , joined the Lodge in 1810 , and caused some little commotion by his resignation of membership the following year , for which action he received a somewhat sharp , and not undeserved rebuke from the Lodge .

The membership of these eminent civic dignitaries does not appear to have occasioned any unusual excitement or jubilation , such as marked the advent of their two successors in more recent times , probably because neither of them were elected to the Master ' s Chair , although it no doubt had some influence on the fortunes of the- Lodge , paving the way to its

becoming what may be termed a city official Lodge . Hence we have Stephen Clark , initated in 1773 , afterwards City Marshal ; Henry Woodthorpe , initated in 1789 , who was Town Clerk in 1801 ; George Pepys , Surveyor , initiated in 1789 whose address is given as the Guildhall ; William

, L . Newman , Solicitor , Guildhall , initiated 1795 ; John Holmes , Gent ., Guildhall , initiated in 1803 ; James and Robert Newman , subsequently became members , both Solicitors , also of the Guildhall ; William Jones , Attorney , the Mayor ' s Court ; and several officials in the Bank of England .

It will thus be seen that there was a fair sprinkling of corporation officials in the Lodge , although a majority of its members were merchants , stockbrokers , and others engaged in some business or profession in the city or its vicinity , whilst a considerable number who probably having " no

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visible means of subsistence , " are simply described as " Gentlemen . " In our own time we have , in addition to Lord Mayors De Keyser and Savory , George Singer , fifty-three years a member of the Lodge , who was auditor of the City and Bridge House

Accounts ; Major Campbell , City Marshal ; Thomas Davies Sewell , of the Chamberlain's Court ; Alfred Norris , Bridge Master ; and probably others . Very few lodges have passed their centenary without material changes in their membership , some have declined while

others have ascended in the social scale , but a remarkable feature in the history of the Lodge of Emulation is that it appears to have always maintained about the same level . True , on some very rare occasions it has languished from a scarcity of members but has soon recovered its usual vigour without the

slightest change in the character and social status of its members , of which no more conclusive evidence can be given than the fact that , so far as we can judge from incomplete records , it appears to have always jealously preserved the privileges of the " Red Apron , " and to have contributed

with fair regularity to the General Fund of Charity . ( To be continued . )

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