FREEMASONS AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY Alphabetical List of ...

Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically
Marquis of Dalhousie L. No. 1159, London. 665
Middlesex No. 239, now No. 143. 666
L. No. 40, at The Mitre Tavern, Covent Garden. 667
Navy No. 2612. 668
Nine Muses No. 186, now No. 235. 669
Northern Bar No. 1610, London. 670
Old Horn L. No. 2, now Royal Somerset House and Inverness L. No. 4. 671
Unnamed L. No. 94, at Oxford Arms, Ludgate Street. 672
Perfect Unanimity No. 248, now No. 150, Madras. 673
L. Perseverance No. 546, formerly No. 818, Bombay, India. 674
Phoenix No. 484, now No. 257, Portsmouth. 675
Prince George No. 86, Plymouth. 676
Prince of Wales’s 677 L. No. 503, now No. 259. 678
Prince of Wales’s No. 412, now No. 259. 679
Promulgation, without no. 682
664 Warranted 1724 as No. 30, constituted 11 May 1724 by Martin Folkes, FRS [qv, above], then DepGM, at Maid’s Head, Cook Row, now
Magdalen Street, Norwich, changing its no. 4 times and its meeting-place 7 times, named Angel L. in 1738, Tuns L. in 1758, Thatched House L. in
1762 and White Swan L. in 1778, each corresponding with the name of one of its meeting-places, before being erased, as No. 16, 10 February 1809
[Lane, 30 (2), 46].
665 Warranted 5 Mar 1867, consecrated 14 May 1867, as No. 1159, at FMH, Great Queen Street, moving to MH, 33 Golden Square, 1882. The
L. now meets at 10 Duke Street, St James’s [Lane, 350; DLC, 31].
666 Warranted by AGL 10 Oct 1775 as No. 194, at Coach and Horses, Duke Street, St James’s, changing its no. twice before becoming No. 143
in 1863 and its meeting-place 17 times before 1894, named Middlesex L. in 1824. The L. now meets at Butcher’s Hall, Bartholomew Close [Lane,
144; DLC, 2009, 9].
667 Warranted Apr 1725, as No. 40, named 1796, L. of Cordiality, changing its no. 6 times and its meeting-place 9 times before L. erased 3 Mar
1830 [Lane, 49; Dyer, 8].
668 Warranted 1896, the L. now meetinmg at FMH, 60 Great Queen Street [DLC, 2009, 60].
669 Warranted 25 Mar 1777, as No. 502, at Thatched House Tavern, St James’s Street, named L. of the Nine Muses from its formation. The L.
changed its no. 5 times before becoming No. 235 in 1863 and its meeting-place 7 times before moving to Grand Hotel, Charing Cross, in 1890; the
L. now meets at Mark Masons’ Hall, 86 St James’s Street, SW1 [Lane, 199; DLC, 2009, 11].
670 Warranted 26 Apr 1876, consecrated 13 May 1876 at MH, 33 Golden Square, London, moving 4 times before 1895; the L. now meets at
Lincoln’s Inn Hall, London, WC2 [Lane, 389; DLC, 2009, 41].
671 Time Immemorial, No. 4 of the Four Old Ls., meeting at Rummer and Grapes, Channel Roaw, Westminster, nod. 3 in 1729, becoming No.
2 in 1740 and retaining this no. until 1814, when it was changed to No. 4, which it still retains. It was united with two Ls., Somerset House No. 210
[No. 279 of 22 May 1762], 10 Jan 1774 and Royal Inverness House No. 648 [of 1814], 25 Nov 1828, when it was named Royal Somerset House
and Inverness, No. 4. The L. met in 6 different meeting-places before moving to FMH, Gret Queen Street, 1865, where it still meets [Lane, 35;
DCL, 2009, 5].
672 Warranted 29 Jun 1732, as No. 94, at Oxford Arms, Ludgate Hill, London, reunnumbered, 1740, as 83, moving that year to Sun, Ludgate
Street, erased 22 Dec 1748 [Lane, 59].
673 Warranted 7 Oct 1786 as No. 233B, at FMH, Chingleput, Madras, formed from Members of Antient L. No. 1 Provincial, originally No. 152,
warranted 5 Jan 1768 at Fort St George, Madras, allegedly surrendering its Warrant and joined the PGL in Madras, but retained on the Lists in
Ahiman Rezon of 1804, 1807 and 1813. There were 3 Ls. at Chingleput, Madras, all warranted in 1765 by the PGL, Nos. 353, 354 and 355,
designated Ls. No. 1, 2 and 3, the 1st lapsing before 1786 and the other two being erased 9 Feb 1791 [Lane, 96, 126 & 146]. The L. now meets at
FMH, 87 Ethiraj Salai, Madras [DLC, 2009, 9].
674 Warranted 16 Apr 1828, went over to GL, Scot, when Sir James Burnes was appointed Scottish ProvGM, and was No. 351 on Reg of that
GL (but not currently on Roll thereof), so erased 4 Jun 1862, from English Roll [Lane, 262].
675 Warranted 20 May 1786 and constituted 7 Feb 1786 as No. 485, at George Tavern, 31 High Street, Portsmouth, changing its no. thrice
before becoming No. 257 in 1863 and its meeting-place 6 times, the L. now meeting at Phoenix L. Rooms, 110 High Street, Portsmouth [Lane,
212, DLC, 2009, 12].
676 Warranted by PGL, 1 May 1748, as No. 203 at Pope’s Head, Pike Street, Plymouth, moving to Prince George in 1763, erased 12 Apr 1780,
reinstated 1781, when after two previous changes of no., it became No. 86, and was 1st named, but after two further changes of no. and two
meeting-places in Plymouth, the L. was erased 5 Mar 1828 [Lane, 90].
677 Variously spelt Wales, Wales’, Wales’s, the last-named being the modern version.
678 Warranted 20 Aug 1787 and constituted 16 Apr 1787, as No. 503, meeting at Thatched House Tavern, St James’s Street, London, changing
its meeting-place 9 times before 1894, becoming No. 412, 1792, No. 493, 1814, No. 324, 1832 and No. 259, 1863. The L. now meets at Army and
Navy Club, 36 Pall Mall [Lane, 215; DLC 2009, 12].
679 Warranted 20 Aug 1787, constituted 18 Apr 1787, as No. 503, at Thatched House Tavern, St James’s Street, London, changing its no. to
412 in 1792, to 493 in 1814, to 324 in 1840 and to its present one of 250 at the last closing-up in 1863. Its meeting-place changed several times, but
its original venue was favoured again in 1802, 1842, and 1843. The L. now meets at Army and Navy Club, 36 Pall Mall [Lane, 215; DLC, 2009,
12]. The L. was at 1st virtually the private L. of George, Prince of Wales, KG, FRS [qv, above], later Prince Regent, then George IV, its members
being drawn mainly from his friends and entourage. It would seem that very many of the Masonic FRSs listed in this study were members.
682 Established by the PGL in October 1909, being ‘a L. of Masons for the purpose of ascertaining and promulgating the Ancient Land Marks
of the Society and instructing the Craft in all such matters and forms as may be necessary to be known by them in Consequence of and Obedience
to the said Resolution.’
At its first meeting this L. of Promulgation started to consider the principal points of variations between the Antient and the Modern practices.
To determine what was truly ancient it had the benefit of advice from Brethren who were Antient Masons. Moreover, the secretary of the L. of
Promulgation was also the Acting Master of the L. of Antiquity and he reorded that it ‘had adhered to the ancient and had never adhered to the
modern practices in the several ceremonies of openming and closing the L. and in the modes prescribed for communicating the peculiar secrets in
the several degrees.’ It is not surprising, therefore, that the deliberations of the L. resulted largely in recommendations that the Antient usages
should be followed, including the adoption of Deacons and of a ceremony of installation of Masters of Ls..’ [Grand L. 1717–1967, 125].
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