Masons Of The Year.

under 18 and 19 Victoria , cap . 122 ; District Surveyor of South Islington ; one of the Committee of the District Surveyors Association : an original member of the Rochester Diocesan Conference ; and holds the Bishop ' s License as a Lector . Mr . Lovegrove is a Livery man of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers , is an authority on the beautiful fancy poultry

of America and Italy , and possesses many fine specimens . He was at one time a most energetic member of the "Artists " Rifle Corp , is author of " Practical Architecture , " and has written and lectured on various subjects . His country house is " Eboracum , " at Heme Hill , which he erected .

MR . EDWARD HOBBS . MR . EDWARD HOBBS , born in September thirty-six years ago , was educated by the late Thomas Darnell , of Harrow ; and on leaving school , at the age of sixteen , entered the eminent firm of Delatte , Dever , Griffiths & Co ., where he

remained for upwards of thirteen years . He then commenced practice on his own account , and is now the senior partner of the firm of Hobbs , Ravenscroft & Co ., Chartered Accountants , 110 , Cheapside . Edward Hobbs is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales , has had a sound professional experience extending over a period of

twenty years , and holds many important professional and public appointments . He is one of the auditors of the Chartered Accountants' Benevolent Association ; rendered signal professional service to the Provisional Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys in the recent investigations ; and is now the auditor of that Institution .

He was initiated into Freemasonry in the Chigwell Lodge ( 453 ) . Mr . Hobbs is a Life Governor of the Boys' School , and seems to reserve most of his Masonic energies for the advance and welfare of the Institution .

MR . JAMES MORRISON McLEOD . MR . JAMES MORRISON McLEOD'S earliest associations with the Craft appear to have been in connection with the important Province of West Lancashire , his initiation , exaltation , advancement , and installation ( K . T . ) having all taken

place in Preston . Subsequently , however , he appears to have become a member of several Masonic bodies in the Provinces of Derbyshire , Nottinghamshire , Lincolnshire , and Kent , while for the purpose of enrolling himself a member of the Order of Rome and Red Cross of Constantine , he went as

far north as Falkirk , N . B ., where he was installed a sir knight in the Zetland Conclave ( 11 ) , while for the Royal and Select Masters' Degrees he travelled southwards to London and took them in the Grand Masters' Council ( 1 ) . 'It is probably due to the fact of his membership of the various branches of Freemasonry being so widely distributed about the country that Bro . McLeod obtained so large a measure of support for the secretaryship of the R . M . I . B . But to

describe his career in its principal details , we find he was initiated in the Lodge of Unanimity ( 113 ) , Preston , in March , 1877 , subsequently joining the Derwent Lodge ( 884 ) , Wirksworth , Derbyshire , of which he is at the present time a Past Master and Senior Warden , and the Newton Lodge ( 661 ) , Newark-on-Trent , of which he is also a Past Master . For his

services in the Derwent Lodge he was appointed P . G Standard Bearer . He was exalted to the Royal Arch Degree in the Chapter of Unanimity ( 113 ) , Preston , and , later on , became a founder of the Alexander Chapter ( 1661 ) , Newark of which he is a P . Z . and the present Scribe E ., and for his services in connection with which he was appointed Prov .

G . S . B . of the Provincial Grand Chapter of Nottinghamshire . In Mark Masonry he was advanced in 1878 in the Preston Lodge ( 143 ) , Preston ; joined the same year , Resteigius Lodge ( 117 ) , Lincoln ; and having later on been elected a member of the Fleming Lodge ( 265 ) , Newark , was in due coarse elected to the chair of A . He is a P . P . J . G . Warden , Notts , and P . P . J . G .

Overseer , Lincolnshire , in this branch of Masonry ; while at the same time he is a Royal Ark Mariner , having been elected in the Dewar Lodge ( 237 ) , Rochester , besides being a founder and Past C . N . of the Byron Lodge , Ncwstcad , and founder and Past C . N . of the Trent Lodge ( 265 ) , Newark . In addition , Mr . McLeod is a Past E . P . of the Prince of Peace Preccptory ,

( 97 ) Preston ; a Knight of Malta in the Priory attached thereto ; Past M . W . S . of the Philips Chapter of Rose Croix ( 52 ) , Lancaster , in the system of the Ancient and Accepted Rite ; a sir knight of the Order of Rome and the Red Cross of Constantine in the Zetland Conclave ( 11 ) , Falkirk , in the

jurisdiction of the Grand Imperial Council of Scotland ; and a member of Grand Master's Council ( 1 ) , London , in the Order of Royal and Select Masters . As regards the Institutions , Mr . McLeod is a Life Governor of both Masonic Schools , and has served as Steward twice for the Boys' School—in 18 S 5 and for the present year , his list on the latter occasion having

amounted to , £ 141 15 s . —and once for the Girls' School ( in 1884 ) . He is also a Life Governor of the Mark Benevolent Fund , and served as Steward at its festival in 18 S 7 . Mr . John Morrison McLeod was elected , on July 12 th of the present year , by a majority of no fewer than 1 , 326 votes over his nearest opponent , the Secretary of the Royal Masonic

Institution for Boys , in place of Mr . Frederick Binckes , who resigned after a service which dated back to the foundation of the Schools at Muswell Hill . Mr . McLeod was born in Edinburgh , but has been a resident in England for many years . He seems to possess the support of the whole Craft in his present position , which is likely to lose none of its importance in his hands .

MR . JOHN POTTS . MR . JOHN POTTS , who succeeded his father as the editor and proprietor of the Banbury Guardian more than fivc-andtwenty years ago , was initiated into the Craft of Freemasonry in the Chirwell Lodge ( 559 ) , Banbury , in April , 1 S 69 . The

following year he was raised to provincial rank by being appointed Provincial Grand Superintendent of Works by the late Colonel Bowyer . He became Worshipful Master of his mother Lodge seven years after his initiation , and was made Provincial Grand Senior Warden by His Royal Highness the late Duke of Albany in 1881 . From 1871 to 1 SS 4 he served no less than fifteen

stewardships to the Charities , thus becoming' qualified as Vice-President of the three institutions , and being presented by his Provincial Grand Lodge of Oxfordshire with a Charity jewel with thirteen clasps . In 1885 , on resigning the office of Treasurerwhich he had then held for some years—of the Chirwell Lodge , the Brethren presented him with a jewel in recognition of his

services to Fremasonry . One year after his initiation into the Craft , he was exalted in the Alfred Chapter of Royal Arch Masons ( 340 ) in Oxfordshire ; later , in 1885 , the Rev . Henry Adair Pickard , Grand Superintendent , appointed him Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies in Provincial Grand Chapter . Two years later he became Provincial Grand Scribe N ., and

was a founder of the Chirwell Chapter ( 599 ) , and sat as first IL , holding the office of Z . the following year . Mr . Potts was incepted in the Cceur de Leon Preceptory of Knight Templars , at Oxford , in 1875 , took the Malta degree the year following , and passed the Preceptor's Chair in 1884 . As the editor of the leading weekly journal of the district , Mr . John Potts , and his father before him , has influenced to an appreciable extent the political and social opinions of the locality .

MR . W . F . SMITHSON . MR . W . F . SMITHSON , who was initiated in the Harrogate and Clare Lodge in 1867 , is one of the most prominent Masons of West Yorkshire , and a faithful lieutenant of the distinguished Grand Master of that Province . Besides being a Past Master of his mother Lodge , he assisted , one year after initiation , in the formation of the Godcrich Lodge , of