Eminent Masons At Home.

National Society , down swoops the Rev . Studholme Brownrigg with his marshalled forces , and extends still further the educational work of the Institution . It was a happy day for Freemasonry when John Studholme Brownrigg was initiated into the Craft in the Scientific Lodge ( 88 ) , Cambridge , on December 10 , thirty years ago . From that

moment he has steadily progressed in the acquirement of the mysteries of the ancient Order until now , when he is recognised as one of the greatest authorities upon the ritualism of the Craft . He was passed and raised in the Lodge of his initiation . Two years later he held the position S . G . D . of Cambridgeshire , joining the

Isaac Newton University Lodge , and filling its chair in 186 3 . The same year he was invested with the Collar of

S . G . W . of Cambridgeshire , since which , so far as Craft Masonry is concerned , he was the first W . M . and a founder

of the SS . Peter and Paul Lodge , Newport Pagnell , and installed Deputy-Provincial Grand Master of Berks and Bucks in

' 73 . He is also a Grand Chaplain of England . To the Royal Arch he was exalted in

September , 1861 , in the St . George ' s Chapter , Dublin , afterwards joining the Euclid Chapter of Cambridge , of which

he is Z . He was the first Z of the St . George ' s Chapter of Wolverton , Assistant G . Sov . of England , and Prov . G . H . of Berks and Bucks .

He was advanced to the Mark Degree in Dublin , and , as stated above , was Founder of the SS . Peter and Paul Lodge

of Mark Masters , Newport Pagnell . He was installed Provincial Grand Mark Master of Buckinghamshire on June 6 ,

1882 , and is a Grand Mark Chaplain of England , 32 deg ., he is P . M . W . Sov . and Recorder , Studholme Rose

Croix ; P . Grand Prelate K . T . of England ; and P . E . P . and Registrar of the Studholme Preceptory . It is easy to see from this extended list of his progressiveachievements in the Craft that the Rev . Studholme Brownrigg must have laid himself down to master all that a busy life would permit . His views upon various matters connected with the sentiment of

Masonry are not universally shared , but his opinion in favor of class Lodges must be followed by a far greater majority of the Craft . In one of his renowned consecration addresses he expressed these opinions very forcibly : — Whilst on the one hand we must stoutly maintain that in our Craft we are

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not seeking any increase of mere numeric . il strength , we must with equal strength insist that we cannot afford to be without any man whose moral and social position in tlie world makes him worth having in our Order . I have often regretted that men who would have done credit to us , and to whom our Order would have proved a benefit in the highest sense , have never joined us ; and I have also often noticed that this loss has been in consequence of the want of an accessible Lodge congenial to the tastes and habits of the candidate . Remember that if we are rightly careful in the selection of candidates

suitable to our Lodge , so also ought the candidate to be careful in the selection of a Lodge congenial and suitable to himself . Though our Craft embraces in . 1 common Brotherhood men of wide difference in tastes and social position , it is not practical or desirable that the particular Lodge or Chapter should be equally comprehensive . I rejoice , therefore , in the multiplication { I repeat , within limits ) of class Lodges , which without in any way endangering the landmarks of our Order , will open it out by providing Lodges and Chapters which will attract into our ranks those whom otherwise we should lose .

Words like these , coming from a man who is qualified to speak with decision upon educational matters

pertaining to the interests of institutions such as Masonry belongs to , should of necessity carry weight with them .

Perhaps there is no greater proof of the love the Rev . Studholme Brownrigg has for Freemasonry than the fact

that for the past few years , years wherein the ordinary Mason would consider he had done enough with his

working tools of the craft , we find the busy man devoting all but a very small period of his spare moments to the

practical assistance of his friend Colonel Shadwell Clerke in consecrating new Lodges and Chapters and the installing of new Worshipful Masters .

Hardly a week passes — perhaps a week never has passed— -but what Studholme Brownrigg is to be found in some part

of the country assisting in the working of some Masonic ceremony or the other . In his own provinces or out of them ,

in the remotest parts of Cornwall , or among the hills of Yorkshire , this energetic and painstaking Brother is to be

found , tools in hand , working away at the glorious fabric which never will be finished . It is a pleasant half-hour you spend with Mr . Brownrigg this dull December afternoon , ia the plain little room , before the blazing fire . There is no time to tell of the old days at Cambridge ,

of which you would so wish to hear . He must have pulled as you have pulled upon the grimy , dirty waters running through the College grounds , but some years before you appeared upon the scene . He could tell you , no doubt , of the devilment of youth , just as sincerely as those who have not entered the Church , and forgotten old Peters of the Cross , or old Tom Riley of the Market-