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Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically Earl Waldegrave, His Majesty’s Ambassador to the French King, Montesquieu, Baron Dursley, 332 son to the Earl of Berkeley; 333 and several other distinguished brethren, both French and English, of Evelyn Pierrepont, 2 nd and last Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, KG, when 7 other brethren, including Viscount Chewton, Earl Waldegrave’s son, later KG, 334 were admitted into the Order. 335 Established a L. No. 133, at Château d’Aubigny, Cher, Berry, in France, warranted or constituted 12 Aug 1735. Leopold George Frederick Christian, HSH, Prince of Saxe-Saalfeld and Coburg, Duke of Saxony, Duke of Kendal, KG, GCB, GCH, RFRS [30 Nov 1816], later [1831] HM Léopold I, King of The Belgians, 1831–65 (16 Dec 1790–10 Dec 1865), born at Coburg, 3 rd son of Francis (Frederick Antony), Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750– 1806), and his wife Countess Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf (1757–1831), and brother-in-law of HRH Edward, Duke of Kent, KG [qv, above], who had married his sister Victoria in 1818, their only child being Queen Victoria (1819– 1901). Died at Laeken, and succeeded as King of the Belgians by his 2 nd , but eldest surviving, son, Louis Philippe Marie Victor (1835–1909), as Léopold II. Not initiated, but his sister’s friend Dr De Schifferli who was a mason and member of L. Der Hoffnung [Hope], Berne, Switzerland, proceeded by delegation of the L. to receive him, 6 Aug 1813, and later to pass and raise him privately, 1813, while Gen under Czar Alexander of Russia. Never attended any masonic meeting anywhere and despite claims to the contrary, never joined an English L. In 1833, gave handsome gift to newly founded GO, Belgium, tried to use Freemasonry for political purposes but without any success. Lindsay, James Ludovic, styled [1869–80] Lord Lindsay, FRS [6 Jun 1878], PRAS [1878–80], FSA [16 Apr 1885], later [13 Dec 1880] 26 th Earl of Crawford and 9 th Earl of Balcarres, then [7 Dec 1891] KT, VD (28 Jul 1847–31 Jan 1913), only son of Alexander (William Crawford) Lindsay, 25 th Earl of Crawford and 8 th Earl of Balcarres (1812–1880). born at St Germain-en-Laye, France, and baptized at the Episcopal Church there, Educ Eton and Trinity Coll, Cambridge. Lt, Grenadier Gds; MP, Wigan, 1874–80. Hon LLD (Edin) 1882, Trustee, Br Museum, 1885; Pres, Camden Socy, 1888. JP, Lancashire and Aberdeenshire. Succeeded to titles on father’s death in 1880. Hon Col, 5 th Bn The Manchester Regiment, VD, KGStJ, Cdr, Légion d’Honneur; DepGStwd, Scot, at Coronations of Edward VII, 1902, and George V, 1911. Married, 22 Jul 1869, Emily Florence Bootle-Wilbraham (†1934), 3 rd dau of Colonel The Hon Edward Bootle- Wilbraham (1807–1897). 336 When he died his titles 337 passed to his eldest son, David (Alexander Edward) Lindsay, styled Lord Lindsay (1871–1940), as 27 th Earl of Crawford and 10 th Earl of Balcarres, later KT, FRS [6 Nov 1924]. An earlier Earl of Crawford was a FRS: John Lindsay, 338 17 th Earl of Crawford and 1 st Earl of Lindsay, PC, FRS [20 May 1663; Original] (1596–1678). As The Hon James Lindsay, initiated, aged 19½, 26 Feb 1866, Isaac Newton Univ. L. No. 859, Cambridge. Joined 2 Ls.: as The Hon James Lindsay (though styled, only from 23 Dec 1869, when his grandfather died, Lord Lindsay), 339 28 Jan 1868, Prince of Wales’s L. No. 259; affiliated, as Lord Lindsay, 1870, The L. of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel) No. 1, Edinburgh (SC). SGW, UGLE, 1871, DepProvGM, West Lancashire; donated, 1880, his masonic collection to Wigan Public Library. Exalted into Royal Arch Masonry; GScN, SGCE, 1871. Lindsay, John, 20 th Earl of Crawford and 4 th Earl of Lindsay, FRS [15 Jun 1732] (4 Oct 1702–24 Dec 1749), Lt- Gen 1747. Born 4 Oct 1702 and educ at Univ of Glasgow and at military academy at Vaudeuil, Paris. Entering Army 1726, becoming Cap, Scots Guards, 1734. Married, 3 Mar 1747, Jean Murray (†10 Oct 1747), elder dau of James Murray, 2 nd Duke of Atholl, KT, PC (1690–1764), and first cousin of James Murray, 3 rd Duke of Atholl, KT (1729–1774), GM, AGL, 1771–74, and GMM, Scot, 1773–74, father of James Murray, 4 th Duke of Atholl, KT (1755–1830), GM, AGL, 1775–81 and 1791–1813 and GMM, Scot, 1778–80. 332 th nd Augustus Berkeley, 4 Earl of Berkeley, KT (1716–1755), who inherited the title on his father’s death on 17 Aug 1736 at the 2 Duke of Richmond’s Castle of Aubigny, France. The details of his Initiation have not yet been ascertained. 333 rd V-Adml James Berkeley, 3 Earl of Berkeley, KG, PC (after 1679–1736). 334 nd Who succeeded his father as 2 Earl in 1741 and was nominated as a Knight of the Garter in 1757. 335 Reported in The Whitehall Evening Post for 18–20 Sep 1735, recorded by Shackleton, 174, as mentioned both by Gould, Vol. IV, 353, and Tunbridge, 97. 336 st 2nd son of Edward Wilbraham-Bootle, later [1814] Bootle-Wilbraham, 1 Lord Skelmersdale (1771–1853), whose grandson, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 2 nd Lord Skelmersdale, later [1880] 1 st Earl of Lathom, GCB (1837–1898), was successively ProvGM, West Lancashire, 1872– 98, DepGM, UGLE, 1874–91 and ProGM, UGLE, 1891–98, and his son, Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, 3 rd Lord Skelmersdale and 2 nd Earl of Lathom (1864–1910), succeeded him as ProvGM, West Lancashire, 1898–1910. 337 He was Lord Lindsay (created 1443 and allowed in 1848), Lord Lindsay of Balcarres (1633), Lord Lindsay and Balneil (1651), all in the Peerage of Scot, and Baron Wigan of Haigh Hall (1826), in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 338 As given in BP, 1999, 1716, under LINDSAY, Earl, but as Crawford-Lindsay in the RS’s List of Fellows on its website, perhaps because he referred to himself as Crawford-Lindsay, as did also his successors, linking the two Earldoms together, as indicated in GEC, Vol. III, 519. 339 So it would seem that the authors of The Prince of Wales’s L. No. 259, List of Members (1910), rather anticipated the change of style when recording the date when he joined the L. 74
Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically Initiated and passed, 7 Aug 1733, in The L. of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel) No. 1, Edinburgh (SC), under the presidency of James Lyon, 7 th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, FRS [qv, below], GM, PGL, 1733–34, together with John Keith, 3 rd Earl of Kintore (1699–1758), 3 rd GMM, Scot, 1738–39 and GM, PGL, 22 Apr 1740–19 Mar 1741, and Alexander Stewart, styled Lord Garlies, later 6 th Earl of Galloway (c.1694–1773), 21 st GMM, Scot, 1757–1759. 340 GM, PGL, 30 Mar 1734–17 Apr 1735. Lock, William, FRS [7 Feb 1754] (c.1687–21 Oct 1761). MP for Grimsby. Member 1730, unnamed L. No. 63, at Bear and Harrow, Butcher Row, Temple Bar, London, now St George’s and Corner Stone L. No. 5. Long, Walter Hume, PC, JP, DL, FRS [19 Jun 1902], later [created 4 Jun 1921] 1 st Viscount Long (13 Jul 1854–26 Sep 1924), late of 46 Ebury Street, London, Rood Ashton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, and South Wraxall, Wiltshire, eldest son of Richard Penruddocke Long of Rood Ashton, Wiltshire (†16 Feb 1875), and his wife Charlotte Anna (†18 Dec 1899), only surviving child of William Wentworth Fitzwilliam Dick, PC, of Humewood, Co Wicklow, Ireland, born at Bath. Educ Harrow, later becoming a Govr of the school, and Christ Church, Oxford, an Hon Student there. Conservative MP: North Wiltshire, Apr 1880–Nov 1885; East or Devizes Division, Wiltshire, Nov 1885–Jun 1992; West Derby Division, Liverpool, Jan 1893–Sep 1900; South Bristol, Oct 1900–Jan 1906, Dublin South, Jan 1906–Jan 1910; Strand Division, Middlesex, Jan 1910–Dec 1918; and St George’s, Westminster, Dec 1918–May 1921. Parly Sec, Local Govt Bd, Aug 1886–Jun 1892; PC, 4 Jul 1895. Member, Royal Commn on Agricultural Depression, 1893; Pres, Board of Agriculture (with seat in Cabinet), Jul 1895–Nov 1900. Lt-Col Commt and Hon Col, Royal Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry, 1898. Pres, Local Government Board (with seat in Cabinet), Nov 1900–Mar 1905 and May 1915–Dec 1916; Chief Sec, Ire (with seat in Cabinet), Mar–Dec 1905; Chmn, Irish Unionist Party, 1906–10, V-Chmn from 1910; Sec of State, Colonies, Dec 1916–Jan 1919; Chmn, Cabinet Committee on Ireland, 1919; First Ld, Admlty, 14 Jan 1919–Feb 1921. Ld-Lt, Wiltshire, 1920–24. JP, Somerset; Hon LLD, Birmingham. Married, 1 Aug 1878, Lady Dorothy Blanche Boyle (†7 Jun 1938), 4 th dau of Richard Edward St Lawrence Boyle, 9 th Earl of Cork and Orrery, KP, PC (19 Apr 1829–22 Jun 1904), 341 and his wife, Emily Charlotte de Burgh (†10 Oct 1912), 2 nd dau of Ulick John de Burgh, 14 th Earl and 1 st Marquess of Clanricarde (20 Dec 1802–10 Apr 1874), 2 sons, the elder, Brig-Gen Walter Long, CMG, DSO (b. 26 Jul 1897), ka at Hebuterne, France, 27 Jan 1917, leaving an only son, and 3 daus. Died at Rood Ashton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, and bur 1 Oct 1924 at West Ashton, the Viscountcy devolving on his only grandson, Walter Francis David Long (14 Sep 1911–23 Sep 1944), Major, Coldstream Guards, as 2 nd Viscount Long, who was not a Freemason. Initiated, aged 19¾, 18 Mar 1874, passed 11 May 1874 and raised 23 Nov 1874, Apollo Univ. L. No. 357, Oxford; last payment made, 1878. Joined 4 Ls.: (1) 13 Jan 1877, 342 L. of Concord No. 632, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, SW same day; WM, 22 Jan 1878, remaining member until death, 1924; (2) 20 Nov 1879, L. of Loyalty No. 1533, Marlborough, Wiltshire, resigning 23 Dec 1890; (3) 2 Apr 1890, Jersey L. No. 2334, Bicester, Oxfordshire, resigning 18 Sep 1890; and (4) 19 Sep 1890, Wiltshire L. of Fidelity No. 663, Devizes, Wiltshire, resigning 31 Dec 1893. Exalted, 17 Dec 1878, Wiltshire Chapter No. 355, Swindon, Wiltshire, membership ceasing at unknown date before 1903. Joined, 15 Jan 1884, Methuen Chapter No. 1533, Marlborough, membership ceasing at unknown date before 1903. ProvJGW, Wiltshire, 1879; PProvSGW, Wiltshire, 1887; SGD, UGLE, 1891; PJGW, 1901. His younger son, The Hon. Richard Eric Onslow Long, TD, JP, DL (22 Aug 1892–12 Jan 1967), succeeded to the title on the death, 23 Sep 1944, of his nephew, Walter Francis David Long, 2 nd Viscount Long, as 3 rd Viscount Long, was initiated, aged 29, 18 Sep 1922, passed and raised in Chaloner L. No. 2644, Melksham, Wiltshire, membership ceasing, 1933. When the 3 rd Viscount died, the title devolved on his 2 nd son, The Hon. Richard Gerard Long (30 Jan 1929– ), as 4 th and present Viscount Long, CBE, who is a Freemason. His 2 nd brother, Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, formerly Long (12 Oct 1856–23 Jan 1938), created, 1917, 1 st Baron Gisborough, was initiated 1876, joined 9 or 10 and founded 4 Ls.; exalted 1878 and joined 2 and founded 2 RA chapters; Prov Rank in 3 Craft Provinces; SGD, UGLE, 1899; JGW, 1921. His nephew, Thomas Weston Peel Long Chaloner, TD, JP (6 May 1889–11 Feb 1951), later [1938] 2 nd Baron Gisborough, was also a Freemason. His 3 rd brother, Robert Chaloner Critchley Long, JP, DL (4 Sep 1858–5 Oct 1938), was initiated 1886, L. of Loyalty No. 1533, Marlborough, resigning 26 Jun 1888. Joined 4 Ls.. ProvSGD, Wiltshire, 1922; PProvSGW, Wiltshire, 1929. 340 Whose grandson, Randolph (Algernon Ronald) Stewart, 12 th Earl of Galloway (1892–1978), was 95 th GMM, Scot, 1945–49. 341 His eldest son, Charles Spencer Canning Boyle, styled [1861–1904] Viscount Dungarvan, later [22 Jun 1904] 10 th Earl of Cork and Orrery (24 Nov 1861–25 Mar 1925), was Provincial Grand Master for Somerset, 26 Jul 1890 [installed 14 May 1891]–1908; and Grand Superintendent, Somerset, 28 Oct 1902–1909; and Grand Scribe N, 1895. 342 As recorded in the L. website, but as 5 Dec 1876 in the Register at Grand L. Library [Message from Bro. Peter Aitkenhead on 20 Jan 2011]. 75
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