FREEMASONS AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY Alphabetical List of ...

Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically
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Cabbell, 69 Benjamin Bond, MP, FRS [19 Jan 1837] (1781 70 –9 Dec 1874), of Cromer Hall, Norfolk, politician and
philanthropist.
Educ at Westminster, matric, aged 17, at Oriel Coll, Oxford, 19 Jun 1800, leaving in 1803 without a degree.
Called to the Bar, Middle Temple, 1816 (Bencher 1850); practised on the Western Circuit. MP: St Albans, Aug 1846–
Jul 1847, and Boston, 1847–Mar 1857; JP, Norfolk, Middlesex and Westminster; DL, Middlesex 1852; High Sheriff,
Norfolk, 1854.
Benefactor of many good causes in London and Norfolk, notably in funding first lifeboat station, Cromer and
providing the first, 34-foot, self-righting lifeboat stationed there and named after him. Ostensibly 93 when he died.
Initiated, 22 Jun 1825, L. of Antiquity No. 2, London, SW 1827–28, DepWM, 1828–30; Petitioner, 3 Jan 1859,
Cabbell L. No. 1109, now No. 807, Norwich, retaining membership of both Ls. until he died; GSwdB, UGLE, 1826–
28; JGW, UGLE, 1828; Pres, BGP, UGLE, 1839; ProvGM, Norfolk, 10 Feb 1854–9 Dec 1874.
Exalted into RA Masonry, 3 May 1827, Chapter of St James, No. 2, London, resigning 1869–70; AsstGSoj,
SGCE, 1828; GSupt, Norfolk, 1 Aug 1854–74.
Installed KT, Observance of Seven Degrees Encampment. Founder, 24 Jul 1840, Watford Encampment, later
renamed Stuart Preceptory No. 28, Watford. 71 ProvGCdr, Norfolk, c.Apr 1862, aged 81, such rank recorded in
GConclave Minutes, 9 May 1862, resigning 1869, the GConclave Minutes, 14 May 1869, recording that the Prov of
Norfolk was ‘vacant’. 72
The Cabbell Craft L., RA Chapter and KT Preceptory, all in Norwich, were named after him.
Calvert, Charles, 5 th Baron Baltimore, FRS [9 Dec 1731] (29 Sep 1699–24 Apr 1751), inherited the title on the
death, 1715, of his father, Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4 th Baron Baltimore (b.1679).
Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Prince of Wales 1731–47 and Cofferer of Household to that Prince 1747–51;
Govr, Maryland, in person, 1732–33; 73 MP, St Germans, 1734–41, and Surrey, 1741–51; Ld of Admlty, 1742–44;
Elder Brother, Trinity House, 1744–51; Surveyor-Gen, Duchy of Cornwall, 1747–51.
His only son and heir, Frederick Calvert (1732–1771), succeeded him, 1751, as 6 th and last Baron Baltimore, FRS
[26 Feb 1767], and married less than 2 years later, Diane Egerton (1732–1758), dau of Scrope Egerton, 1 st Duke of
Bridgwater (1681–1745) 74 and his 2 nd wife, Rachael Russell (†1777), dau of Wriothesley Russell, 2 nd Duke of
Bedford, KG (1680–1711), but when he died, 4 Sep 1771, in Naples, without issue, the Barony became extinct.
Initiated in L. No. 65, formed at St Rook’s [or Roche or St Roche’s or St Rocque’s] Hill, Chichester. Gould 75
quotes a reference to a meeting of this L. from the Weekly Journal, or Br Gazetteer (No. 264, Apr 11, 1730) and also
reported in the Leeds Mercury of 7–14 Apr 1730 76 in the following terms:
A few days since, their Graces the Dukes of Richmond and Montagu[e], accompanied by several gentlemen, who were all
Free and Accepted Masons, according to ancient custom, form’d a L. upon the Top of a Hill near the Duke of Richmond’s
seat, at Goodwood in Sussex, and made the Right Hon. the Lord Baltimore a Free and Accepted Mason.
Lord Baltimore assisted in forming ‘Occasional L.’, when Frederick, Prince of Wales, was initiated in Nov 1737 at
Kew Palace, but with these exceptions, the first being his own Initiation, 1730, his Masonic record is blank.
Camac, William, FRS [1 Feb 1821] (c.1762–11 Aug 1837).
Member, 1802, L. Star in the East No. 77, now No. 67, Calcutta. Joined, 1806, L. of Friendship No. 3, now No. 6,
at Thatched House Tavern, St James’s Street, London; GStwd 1807, Pres, BdGStwds, JGW, PGL, 1808.
Campbell, 77 Sir Archibald Campbell, 1 st and last Bt, 1 st Baron Blythswood, LLD (Glasgow), MP, FRS [2 May
1907] (22 Feb 1835–8 Jul 1908), of Blythswood House, Renfrewshire, was born in Florence, eldest of the 9 children
of Archibald Campbell, Laird of Mains.
69
As given in ProvGL of Norfolk’s Year Book, 2008–2009, 41 & 222, and the RS’s List of Fellows on its website, but as Bond-Cabbell in
ODNB.
70
As given in the RS’s List of Fellows on its website, such year confirmed from GConclave Minutes and recorded in a Norfolk ProvKT
website: http://www.eaknightstemplar.org.uk/eh.html; recorded as 1782/3 in ODNB.
71
Internet website, for Stuart Preceptory No. 28, KT: http://www.ktherts.com/Stuart28.html.
72
Information furnished in a message on 30 Aug 2009 by Martin Richard Beardall, Prov Sub-Prior, Norfolk, based on Grand Conclave
minutes dated May 9th 1862. The Grand Conclave minutes of May 14th 1869, and Internet website: www.eaknightstemplar.org.uk, for which the
compiler is indeBted.
73
Gould, Vol. VI, 457, states that he was proprietary Govr from 1715 to 1751 of the American State founded more than a century earlier by his
ancestor, George Calvert, 1 st Lord Baltimore (c.1578–1632).
74 th
Grandfather of The Revd Francis Henry Egerton, 8 and last Earl of Bridgwater, FRS, FSA (1756–1829) [qv, below].
75
Robert Freke Gould, The History of Freemasonry (6 Volumes) (London: Thomas C. Jack, 45 Ludgate Hill, 1882–1887) – cited as Gould,
Vol. III, 10, n. (2).
76
As recorded in William D. Patrick, ‘Making a Mason at Sight’, AQC 99 (1986), 196–202, at 198; and in Dr Barry Hoffbrand, ‘Dr Misaubin
– Hogarth’s ‘quack’ – and a much maligned mason’, AQC 118 (2005), 154–171, at 162.
77 th
Campbell was both his forename and his patronym, for his father, Archibald Douglas, later Campbell, 17 Lord of Mains, Dunbartonshire
(c.1809–1868), changed his and his eldest son’s surname in 1838 when his son was but 3 years old, on his succeeding his cousin, Archibald
Campbell, as Laird of Blythswood [GEC, Vol. II, 197].
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