Famous &/or Notable Australian
Freemasons
Compiled
by WBro D Hudson, PM Lodge Devotion 723, PM Lodge Evolution 931
Copyright 2016 DL Hudson,
Version One First Published 2007
This Version 9, updated Saturday, January 2, 2016
Email; melbournemason AT hotmail.com (please use “Famous Australian Freemasons” as
subject)
This list began as a
short list of Famous Australian Freemasons in an edition of our Lodge
Newsletter “Devotion News” and has grown to include over 600 notable and/or
famous Australian Freemasons.
There are many lists
readily available of famous Freemasons on the internet, but when this list was
started in 2007, no extensive list dedicated to just Australian Freemasons
existed. Never keen to simply duplicate web content from other web sites on our
site www.lodgedevotion.com I set out to compile a
list concerned with only Australian members of “The Craft”. My list is now
widely used by others – please cite our web address when using our content.
This list has been
compiled over years. For some time, references were not recorded, but as the
list grew, it was realized it could become an authoritative and comprehensive record
of Australian Freemasons. It is now the most authoritative and comprehensive
list of Australian Freemasons on the web and a useful resource for researchers.
References are now being progressively added, but readers should note names
have only been included when the source of the same was considered reliable. Unfortunately,
not all of those named have reflected the greatest credit on our Craft, but the
test for inclusion is reasonable proof of membership, not subjective opinion on
their actions or the lives they led. For want of other phrase, I’ve included
the bad apples.
It is hard to organize
such a list – where do you put a Governor General who won a Victoria Cross? An
Archbishop with a Military Cross? An actor who was Grand Master and a State Politician,
or a “military man” who was a doctor, humanitarian and community leader? We
suggest if you are looking for something specific either peruse the list or hold
the Ctrl key and press “F” to search it, or if you have a hardcopy version –
use the index. I do not (knowingly!) duplicate many names in the list with the
exception of those under the first heading.
Some inclusions are not
Australians – but such men have been added for their strong link and influence on
Australia; early Governor Generals who were not “Australian” being a good
example. Keep in mind this is a list of names, not a biography, I try to keep
entries short but some details have been added for context and/or interest.
The real future value of
the list might be to social historians examining how membership of the Craft
influenced some of the great men recorded below, especially how being Freemasonry
may have affected how they interacted with each other and society. This topic
is yet to be meaningfully examined in an Australian context. With this view,
there are now many on the list that may not seem very notable or famous, but
the list is now being used as a starting point by many researchers, so we
include such names with these researchers in mind.
Note - If you reproduce all or part of this list,
you MUST cite the source. Good
manners and the Law aside, my internet research is being greatly slowed by
Google searches returning my own list quoted but not cited on other sites,
especially lodge web sites. We do not knowingly add a name unless the person is deceased or
agreed to be in the public eye as a Freemason.
A note on footnotes; Almost
all footnoted sources mention the Masonic Membership of the individual in
conjunction to the specific item footnoted. Footnotes have been removed from this page, but are available in the PDF at the bottom of the list
Table of Contents
House
Hold Names of Men who were not Primarily Politicians.
Famous Freemasons; Australian Prime Ministers.
Famous Freemasons; Australian State Premiers.
Famous Freemasons;
Australian State Premiers – NSW..
Famous Freemasons;
Australian State Premiers – Queensland.
Famous Freemasons;
Australian State Premiers – South Australia.
Famous Freemasons;
Australian State Premiers – Tasmania.
Famous Freemasons;
Australian State Premiers – Victoria.
Famous Freemasons;
Australian State Premiers – Western Australia.
Famous Freemasons; Australian & State
Governors.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Australians of the
Year .
Famous Australian Freemasons; Australian (and
Foreign) Explorers.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Actors,
Entertainers & Musicians.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Sport
Famous Australian Freemasons; Military Men –
Victoria Cross Winners.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Military Men of
Rank or Note.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Inventors &
Business People.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Architects &
Builders.
Famous Freemasons;
Architects.
Famous Freemasons;
Builders.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Artists.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Aviation.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Chinese of the
Ninetieth Century.
Famous Australian Freemasons: Convicts.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Females (irregular)
Famous Australian Freemasons; Medicine.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Other Politicians.
Famous Australian Freemasons; Religious Leaders.
Famous Australian Freemasons; The Law..
Notable Australian Freemasons; Still more..
Suggested names
needing further research .
Suggested names
needing further evidence, without further evidence currently being found.
Sometimes Claimed, Unlikely to be Freemasons.
Observations.
Sources - Web Sites of Note.
Sources - Useful books heavily used.
Articles acknowledged with special thanks.
A Note on Bias.
A Note on punctuation and Masonic Titles.
Books for the
author to research.
Other Materials
for the Author to Research.
(see sections below this one for references
establishing Masonic membership)
Ø "Smokey
Dawson" Herbert Henry MBE AM (1913 –2008), country music entertainer and community leader
Ø Sir Charles Kingsford
Smith (1897-1935), aviator first to cross the Pacific from the US to Brisbane
in about 1928.
Ø "Chips
Rafferty" John William Pilbeam Goffage (1909-1971) Film actor
Ø Graham Kennedy
(1934-2005), entertainer and the "King of Television". Lodge of St
Kilda, 1955
Ø Charles "Bud"
Tingwell (1923-2009) actor and spitfire pilot.
Ø Sir Donald Bradman AC (1908-2001),
world famous Australian cricketer.
Ø SirHubert Opperman (1904-1996) world's
fastest bicyclist in 1930s
Ø Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820).."Father Of Australia", botanist
Ø John McDouall Stuart (1815-1866), explorer, claimed he
recognised a Masonic greeting when he encountered a party of traditional owners
in northern Australia.
Ø Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), Governor
of
NSW (1810 to 1821)
Ø James Boag
(c.1822-1890), brewer, founded “J. Boag & Son” in 1883.
Ø Charles Brownlow, football legend.
Ø Sir Edmund Barton GCMG,
KC (1849-1920), 1st Australian Prime Minister (1901-1903). Initiated into Australian
Lodge of Harmony No 555 English Constitution on 13 March 1878.
Ø Sir George Reid GCB,
GCMG, KC (1845-1918), 4th Prime Minister of Australia , Lodge Centennial No.
169, UGL of NSW on 16 Nov 1896
Ø Sir Joseph Cook GCMG (1860-1947) 6th Prime Minister of Australia . Initiated into Lodge Independent No 8 UGLNSW
12 Feb 1892.
Ø Viscount Stanley
Melbourne Bruce (1883- 1967) 8th Prime Minister of Australia . Only Prime Minister to lose his seat at an election
in 1929. First
Australian to sit in the House of Lords . Initiated at Old Melbournians Lodge No 317 UGLV
on 12 June 1925.
Ø Sir Earle Christmas
Grafton Page GCMG, CH (1880-1961) 11th
Prime Minister
of Australia . Initiated at Lodge
Prince Leopold No 87 UGLNSW on 4 Dec 1917
Ø Sir Robert Menzies KT,
AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC (1894-1978), 12th Prime Minister of Australia , Initiated into Austral Temple Lodge No. 110,
UGLV on 10 March 1910. (Initiated 1920?) Received a 50 Year Jewel
Ø Sir Arthur William
Fadden GCMG (1894-1972) 13th Prime Minister of Australia . Initiated into
Freemasonry at Caledonia Lodge No 737 Scottish Constitution in Queensland on 20
July 1915
Ø Sir John McEwen, GCMG,
CH (1900-1980) 18th Prime Minister of Australia . Initiated into Freemasonry at Lauderdale Lodge
No 361 UGLV on 28 July 1926
Ø Sir John Grey Gorton
(1911-2002) 19th Prime Minister of Australia. Initiated into Freemasonry at
Kerrange Lodge No 100 UGLV on 5 Feb 1948.
Ø Sir William McMahon
GCMG, CH (1908-1988) 20th Prime Minister of Australia. Initiated at Lodge University of Sydney No 544
UGLNSW on 22 March 1974.
The list of Premiers has been expanded enough to
warrant subsections. There are several below which generally do not appear in
lists of Freemasons yet have reliable sources for inclusion.
Ø Sir
Robert Askin GCMG, , (1907
– 1981) 32nd
Premier of New South Wales, member Boree Lodge 335 & Prince Edward Lodge 349 In
1973 Askin became the first premier of New South Wales to win a fourth
successive term.
Ø Sir
Eric Willis KBE, CMG (1922-99), Premier of New South Wales
Ø Sir Charles Cowper KCMG
(1807-1875) , the Premier of New South Wales five times, was initiated in The
Lodge of Australia in 1862
Ø Sir
Samuel Walker Griffith KCMG(1845-1920), Chief Justice and Premier of Queensland (twice), Grand Master
Ø Sir Robert Philip
KCMG(1851-1922), businessman and Premier of Queensland,
Ø Maj Robert Torrens, (1780–1864), political economist, Member Royal Society,
first Premier of South Australia and later [1872] Sir Robert Torrens, Initiated,
24 Nov 1824, then of Woolwich, L. of Antiquity No. 2, London.
Ø Sir John Alexander
Cockburn KCMG (1850-1929), 18th Premier of South Australia , Federationalist and medical
practitioner Initiation in 1876,
helped establish the Grand Lodge of South Australia, and served in several high
offices within it initiated Friendship Lodge 423 South Australian 1876
Ø John Greeley Jenkins
(1851-1923), 22nd Premier of South Australia
Ø Robert Stanley “Bob” Richards (1885-1967), 32nd
Premier of South Australia.
Ø Justice
Sir James Boucaut KCMG (1831-1916) MLA. Premier South Australia three times
Ø Sir Richard
Davies Hanson (1805-1876), solicitor founding member of the South Australian
Literary Society in August 1834, initiated Lodge of Friendship in 1834 . 4th
Premier (1857-1860) South Australia, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
(from 1861) and as acting Governor (1872-1873). Hanson St & Road Adelaide
are named after him .
Ø Sir Thomas Playford IV GCMG
(1896-1981), Premier of South
Australia (not
to be confused with
Thomas
Playford II (1837-1915) who was also a Premier of South Australia and
grandfather of Sir
Thomas Playford IV ) Premier of South Australia from 5 November 1938
to 10 March 1965, the longest term of any elected government leader in the
history of Australia
Ø Archibald Henry Peake
(1859-1920), 25th Premier of South Australia
Ø Thomas Price
(1852-1909), 24th Premier of South Australia, reformist, trade
unionist
Ø Sir
John Hart CMG (1809-1873), SC Provincial Grand Master SA Premier of South
Australia three times , MLA MLC Hart's Mill (1855) and the Adelaide Milling
Company flour mill (c.1890) are prominent landmarks adjacent to the southern
wharf of the Inner Harbour at Port Adelaide
Ø Sir John William Evans CMG
(1855-1943), seaman, businessman and politician, 21st Premier of
Tasmania
Ø Sir
Neil Elliott Lewis KCMG (1858-1935), lawyer and 19th Tasmanian Premier three
times. MLA. Attorney-General. Federationalist. Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania
1933-35. Chancellor of the University of Tasmania 1924-33
Ø Sir Alexander James
Peacock KCMG (1861-1933), 20th Premier of Victoria and member of
fourteen ministries. Grand Master (1900-05) of the United Grand Lodge of
Victoria
Ø Sir George Turner KCMG (1851-1916)
privy counselor , Victoria's first Australian-born Premier of Victoria (18th)
, Commonwealth Treasurer & Minister , Mayor of St Kilda 1887-88 . Introduced income tax (1894) Initiated 1882 , at The Brighton District Lodge No37
Ø Sir Harry Lawson KMCG
(1875-1952), 27th Premier of Victoria 1918-1924, Scotch Collegians Lodge
Ø William Alexander Watt (1871-1946) politician, 24th Premier
of Victoria , Acting Prime Minister
post WW1. initiated North Melbourne Lodge 2 Dec 1901
Ø Sir
Henry Edward Bolte GCMG (1908-1990), was the 38th and
longest serving Premier of Victoria. Initiated into Lodge Meredith No 163 UGLV 9 October 1946
Ø George David Langridge (1829-1891)
Victorian politician and public figure. Premier of Victoria. “His public
meetings at Collingwood were gala occasions: he never lost the common touch, and artisans and labourers mourned his death in
impressive numbers.”
Ø Sir
Charles Court AK KCMG OBE (1911 –2007), 21st Western Australian
Premier .
Ø Major General Sir Newton James Moore
KCMG(1870-1936), 8th Premier of Western Australia, soldier and
businessman, President
of the Western Australian Municipal Association in 1904
Ø William Forgan-Smith (1887-1952) 24th Premier of Queensland
1932-1940, initiated into Prince Albert Lodge No 248 UGLQLD .
Ø Lachlan Macquarie
(1762-1824), Governor of NSW “Served as the last autocratic Governor of
NSW (1810 to 1821) and played a leading role in the social, economic and architectural
development of the colony” . Initiated January 1793 at Bombay, India in Lodge No1
Ø Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs
(1855–1948), Governor-General, Attorney-General, High Court Judge and
politician Elected to the first
Federal Parliament of Australia. Initiated Antrim No 349 Irish Const, member of
Australia Felix, first Grand Register(1889-1890) of UGLV
Ø Sir Ernest Clark
(1864-1951), Governor of Tasmania, installed Grand Master of Tasmania in 1935
Ø Lord Huntingfield,
William Charles Arcedeckne KCMG (1883-1969), Governor of
Victoria (1931-1939). 14th Grand Master UGLV 1935-1939 Grand Master when
Freemasons Hospital East Melbourne Opened. Initiated
United Lodge # 1629 EC
Ø Sir Robert William Duff GCMG,
PC (1835-1895), Governor of NSW , Grand Master of NSW
Ø Air Vice Marshal Sir
Robert Allingham George KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB, MC (1896-1967)South Australian
Governor Grand Master South
Australia 1956-1958
Ø Major-General
Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks KCB CMG DSO KStJ KCVO KCMG(1896-1966), Governor
of Victoria, 19th Grand Master UGLV 1951-1963 . Victoria's longest serving
Governor and Masonic Grand Master “was possibly the most popular Governor in
Victoria's history” initiated in the
Clarke Lodge # 98 on 6 February 1950 Dallas
Brooks Hall 300 Albert St East Melb is named after him
Ø Lt General Sir John
Northcott KCMG,
CB, MVO, KStJ (1890-1966). NSW State Governor & Grand Master. Wounded at Gallipoi on 25
April 1915
Ø Lord Somers,
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Herbert
Tennyson Somers-Cocks KCMG, DSO, MC (1887-1944), Governor of Victoria, 12th Grand
Master Victoria 1927-1932 Chief Scout of Victoria and succeeded Baden-Powell as
Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth Initiated Household Brigade Lodge
Ø George Edward John
Mowbray Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke CB CVO CBE KCMG ADC (1862-1947) KCMG CB CVO
CBE VD TD (1862-1947), Soldier & Governor of Victoria(1920-?) Initiated Lodge
of Prudence # 388 10th Grand Master UGLV
1922-1929
Ø Lord Stonehaven, Major-General
Michael Jeffery, Governor General 1925-1930, Grand Master UGLNSW
Ø Major-General Jeffery
AC, CVO, MC.( 1937- ), Governor General of Western Australia (1993
–2002) and then Australia (2003–2008), Former CO of SAS
Regiment (Australia). Initiated in St George’s Lodge No 6 on 23 November 1994,
Ø Sir Samuel J Way (1836-1916), South Australian Lt Governor,
Grand Master South Australia 1884-
Ø Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
(1890-1969), South Australian Governor , Grand Master South Australia
1941-1943 95th
Grand Master Mason of Scotland (1949-54) initiated in Apollo University Lodge
No. 357 (E.C.) in 1908
Ø Sir William Ellison-Macartney KCMG (1852-1924) Governor
of Tasmania (1912-1917) , Governor of
Western Australia (1917-1920) . Grand Master WA 1918-?, Grand Master Tasmania Initiated
Apollo University Lodge # 357 EC on 6 June 1872
Ø Sir Eric Neal (1924-)
AC CVO
South Australian Governor 1996-2001 , Chair Wespac
Ø Sir
Alan James Mansfield KCMG KCVO KStJ (1902-1980) Chief Justice, Governor of
Queensland 1966-1972 , chief Australian prosecutor 1946-47 at the trials of war
criminals in Tokyo , Chancellor The
University of Queensland 1966-76 , Grand
Master QLD
Ø Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st
Viscount Chelmsford GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (1868 - 1933) British statesman
served as Governor of Queensland (1905–1909), Governor of NSW (1909 -1913). Viceroy of
India. Grand Master of the United Grand
Lodge of NSW 1910-1913. Initiated
1 June 1898 in Lodge of Amity # 137 EC
Ø Sir Gerard Smith KCMG (1839-1920), Governor
of
Western Australia (1895-1900) Initiated
into Freemasonry on 4 May 1880 in the United Studholme Alliance Lodge # 1591 EC
Ø Lord
Kintore, Algernon Hawkins Thomond
Keith-Falconer (1852- 1930) Governor of South Australia and Grand Master
South Australia 1889-1895
Ø Lord
Carrington, Charles Robert Carrington KG GCMG PC DL JP (1843-1928) , Governor of NSW and District Grand Master
NSW in 1888 to 1890 First Grand Master
United Grand Lodge NSW Initiated 28
October 1861 in Sir Isaac Newton Lodge # 859 EC
Ø Sir
Thomas Mellis Napier KCMG (1882-1976) , Judge, Lieutenant Governor (1942-73) ,
Grand Master of South Australia 1928-1930
Ø Sir
Harry Holdsworth Rawson GCB GCMG (1843-1910), Admiral, Governor of NSW (1902-1909)
“He promoted 'the ultimate formation of a separate navy' for Australia” Grand
Master of United Grand Lodge of New South Wales (1905-09). Initiated in Royal
Sussex Lodge # 501 EC in November
Ø Lord
Brassey. Thomas Brassey KCB (1836-?), first Governor of Victoria to be elected
Grand Master (1896-1900) , help found
Volunteer Naval Reserves. Initiated Oxford University Lodge 1850. In Melbourne he joined the Clarke Lodge # 98
Ø Sir
John Goodwin KCB, CMG, DSO, Queensland Governor and Queensland Grand Master.
Ø Lord Gowrie, Sir Alexander
Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven
VC DSO with Bar (1872-1955) Victoria Cross Winner, and Australia's longest
serving Governor-General. Grand Master of NSW Initiated into Freemasonry at Lodge
St Andrews Military Lodge No 668 on 15 March 1893.
Ø Sir
Leslie Orme Wilson DSO GCIE GCSI. (1876-1955), Governor (1932-1946) and Grand
Master of Queensland (1934-1946). Governor
of Bombay (1923-28) . Initiated in Lodge
Ionic # 65 NSWC on 17 January 1904
Ø Sir
Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey GCB, GCMG, PC, DL, JP
(1845-1915), Governor of NSW, Grand Master UGLNSW (installed 1891) initiated into Apollo University Lodge # 357
EC, on 25 October 1865 affiliated with Lodge Ionic # 65 NSWC
Ø General Sir Charles Gairdner GBE, KCMG,
KCVO, CB (1898–1983) Governor of Western Australia in 1951-63, Governor of
Tasmania 1963-68. Initiated in Shamrock Lodge No. 101 (Irish constitution) Grand Master
Ø Lord
Carmichael, Thomas Gibson Carmichael, GCSI KCMG (1859-1926) Governor Victoria
(1908-?) Governor of Madras , India, Governor of Bengal . Grand Master UGLV 1909-1912 . Initiated 1895 in Lodge Dramatic and Arts #
757 SC
Ø Sir
Douglas Nicholls KCVO, OBE (1906-1988), Governor of South Australia and prominent
Indigenous Australian,
pioneering reconciliation . First
Australian Aboriginal to be knighted and first to serve in vice regal office .
In 1934, 3rd in Brownlow count 1935 first Aboriginal selected Victorian
Interstate Team . Initiated Lodge Antoc in 1954
Ø Frederick
John Prichard (1851–1920), journalist During
WW1 wrote under the name of 'Union Jack' to keep readers informed of
developments on the front
Ø Sir George
Cumine Strahan KCMG. (1838-1887), Governor of Tasmania .
Ø Sir
Ronald Hibbert Cross KCMG (1896-1968), British Parliamentarian. British High Commissioner
to Australia 1941. Governor of Tasmania 1951
Ø Lt
Col George James Molle
(1773-1823), soldier and Lieutenant-governor NSW, commander 46th Regiment in
February, 1814 Sydney Took part in the
first public Masonic ceremony in Australia, at the laying of the foundation
stone of Captain John Piper's new house on what is now Point Piper Lodge of
Social and Military Virtues in late 1816.
Ø Hercules
George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead GCMG PC (1824-1887), was a British
colonial administrator who became the 5th Governor of Hong Kong and
subsequently, the 14th Governor of New South Wales
Ø Col
James Erskine CB (1765-1825)fought at the Battle of Vinegar Hill (Ireland) in
June 1798. Lt. Governor Port Jackson & NSW. Presented silver trowel to Australian
Social Lodge No.260
Ø John
Hutt (1795-1880) Governor of Western Australia Presided over first Masonic
Meeting in WA Foundation Master of Lodge of Saint John No 712 EC first Lodge in
WA Persuaded first Freemason (Francis
Lochée (1811-1893)) to be initiated in Western Australian Colony
Ø Lieutenant-General Sir
John Lavarack, Grand Master QLD Governor of Queensland from 1946-1957.
NOTE
– Two Governors not noted above appear in the Premiers lists.
Ø Major General Alan Bishop
Stretton AO CBE (1922-2012), Australian of the year 1975 Evidence of his membership is tenuous and I
would love more information.
Ø Sir Edward 'Weary'
Dunlop, Australian of the year 1976 (see military men section for footnotes)
Ø Captain Matthew Flinders
(1774-1814), explorer
Ø Hamilton Hume (1797-1873) first
Australian explorer to be born here. Initiated at Leinster Marine Lodge of
Australia No 266, Irish Const on 12 Sept 1825.
Ø William Wentworth (1790-1872)
explorer, poet, journalist and politician. Member Lodge Amis Incorruptibles of Orient
de Paris in 1818. Member The Lodge of Australia No 3`
Ø Lieutenant John Oxley (1783-1828) RN
explorer . Surveyor General . Member Lodge of Social and Military Virtues No
277 Irish Const.
Ø John McDouall Stuart (1815-1866) explorer. Initiated
into the Lodge of Truth No.933 E.C. North Adelaide on 1
August 1859 . Stuart claimed he
recognised a Masonic greeting when he encountered a party of traditional owners
in northern Australia .
Ø Charles Karius (?-?) Explorer in
PNG. Initiated New Guinea Lodge (292 UGLQ) 29 Nov 1926,
Ø Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) "Father Of Australia", botanist
Member Inverness Lodge, No. 4
Ø Augustus C. Gregory KCMG (1819-1905)
Explorer Surveyor-General
of Queensland, found coal in Western Australia English District Grand Master
Ø Inspector-General Belgrave Edward
Sutton Ninnis CVO (1837 – 1922) Royal Navy
surgeon, surveyor, Arctic explorer, and leading Freemason. Served as part of a
surveying expedition to the Northern Territory of South Australia, helping to
chart the area to the west of the Adelaide River and returning biological
specimens to Adelaide for study. Initiated 1872 in Zetland Lodge No
515 Malta Died by accident
Antarctica in December 1912 aged 25 years.
Ø Charles
Archibald Brookes Hoadley CBE (1887-1947), explorer, educationist and scout
leader. Member Australasian Antarctic Exploration Expedition led by Mawson.
first principal of Footscray Technical School. King's Polar Medal (1915) and
the Order of the Silver Wolf (1931). Cape Hoadley in Antarctica is named after
him. Initiated 1915
Ø Arthur
Todd Holroyd (1806-1887), physician, explorer and jurist. Fellow, Zoological
Society of London. First European to cross the Bayuda desert to Khartoum and
the first Englishman to visit Kordofan. Fellow Royal Geographical Society. MLC
MLA . First mayor municipality of Prospect and Sherwood (Holroyd). District
Grand Master of the English constitution (1867-77)
Ø Albert
Frederick Calvert (1872-1946), author, explorer, traveler and mining engineer.
Initiated 1893
Ø Edmund
Albert Colson (1881-1950), explorer and bushman. “..understood the rites, customs and dialects of several Aboriginal
tribes”. Crossed of the Simpson Desert accompanied by Eringa Peter of the
Antakurinya tribe (1936)
Ø Michael
Terry (1899–1981), explorer and author. In 1923 he and his companion Richard
Yockney drove from Winton, Queensland, to Broome, Western Australia, in a 1913
T-model Ford
Ø Herbert Henry
"Smokey Dawson" MBE AM (1913 –2008), country music entertainer and community leader
Ø Graham Kennedy AO
(1934-2005), entertainer and "King of Television". Lodge of St Kilda,
1955
Ø "Chips
Rafferty" John William Pilbeam Goffage (1909-1971) Film actor. Initiated
at Lodge Literature No 500 UGLNSW in 1957
Ø Charles "Bud"
Tingwell AM (1923-2009) actor and spitfire pilot. Initiated Lodge Carinya No
785 on 27 Jan 1950
Ø Ken G Hall (1901-1994).
Australian film producer and was the first Australian to win an Oscar.
Initiated into Freemasonry at Lodge Anima No 421 on 12 Dec 1922.
Ø George Seth Coppin
(1819-1906), politician, comic actor and entrepreneur . An energetic Freemason
he became the first Grand Master of Victoria (Grand Lodge Victoria later
dissolved when United Grand Lodge Victoria was formed, Coppin presided over the
first (and last (1889) meeting of the GL ). Coppin has been credited with fathering the Australian theatre Initiated St Johns Lodge No 346 IC
Ø " Roy Rene Mo"
(born Harry Van Der Sluys) (1892-1954) better known as 'Mo' the clown.
Thespian No.256, NSW Australia
Ø Nathan Phillips better
known as “Stiffy” the clown
Ø Raymond Charles "Ray" Barrett
(1927 –2009) movie actor and voice of John Tracey in “Thunderbirds”. Initiated
in 1949 in Empire Lodge #197 of the United Grand Lodge of Queensland.
Ø Philip
Peter Jacob Wirth (1864-1937) bandsman and circus proprietor, with his brother,
founded Wirth Bros Ltd Circus (1913-1963)
Ø Friedrich Wilhelm August Klauer ( 1829 -1906) Band musician, composer, arranger, publican, gold miner, played
at the Eureka Stockade. Oldest publican in Adelaide. He was a prominent
Freemason, having been a Past Master of the Duke of Leinster Lodge Member of
the Adelaide City Council.
Ø Sir Donald Bradman AC (1908-2001),
world famous Australian cricketer . Initiated Lodge Tarbolton No 12 UGLNSW 26
Nov 1929.
Ø William Albert Stanley
(Bert) Oldfield MBE (1894-1976), cricketer Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1927.
Initiated Lodge Arcadia No 177 UGLNSW on 11 June 1920
Ø Sir
Hubert Opperman, OBE (1904-1996) world's fastest bicyclist in 1930s; Government
Minister; High Commissioner to Malta. Initiated into Stonnington Lodge No 368
UGLV on 23 Dec 1925. Member Peace and Loyalty
Lodge
Ø Bill Ponsford MBE (1900-1991),
test cricketer
Ø Charles Brownlow (1861-1924) football
Unity and Prudence Lodge initiated in 1885
Ø John Treloar (1928- )
one of the fastest sprinters in the world of his time, winner
of three track sprint gold medals at the Auckland 1950 Empire Games . Initiated at Lodge
Frank McDowell No 362 on 4 March 1948
Ø Edward (Eddie) Charlton
AM (1929-2004) professional snooker and billiards champion. Initiated into
Lodge Swansea No 755 UGL of NSW&ACT 14 July 1961.
Ø Walter Albert Lindrum CBE
(1898 - 1960) professional billiards player. Initiated Crimea Lodge No 432 8
Oct 1934
Ø Jack Plummer, sprinter, Australian 1500m track champion and also at Auckland 1950 Empire
Games
Ø Ray Land, who competed in sprints and relays at Melbourne 1956
Ø Vic Patrick (1920-2006) "the
best Australian boxer never to have won a world title" . Australian Lightweight Title in 1941. Initiated
at Lodge Fellowship No 623 on 28 Jan 1942
Ø Mickey (Roy) Tollis. ( 1927 – 2007), boxer
Ø Jimmy Hill, boxer
Ø Henry Messenger
(1883-1959), Rugby player. Initiated at Lodge Thespian No 265 in 1915
Ø William John Truscott 'Nipper'
(1886-1966), footballer inducted into the Sport
Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996
Ø Deverick John (Mick)
Cronin (1911-1979), Australian Rules footballer and commentator
Ø William Hender Hellings,
swimmer one of the founders of the NSW Swimming Association
Ø John Hill (b1925?),
member Victorian Boxing Hall of Fame, 50 Year Jewel holder.
Ø Edgar Laurence ( Dunc)
Grey (1906-1996), Olympic bicyclist
Ø Mervyn (Merv) Thomas Wood, LVO, MBE,
QPM (1917 –2006) Eight-time Australian national sculling champion, four-time
Olympian and three-time Olympic medalist. Held 28 State Sculling titles. Australian
athlete of the year. Later Police Commissioner of the NSW Police Force.
Ø William (Bill) M Lawry AM (1937- )
cricket initiated Manangatang lodge 705 UGLV in 1962
Ø Wally Grout (1927-1968),
test cricketer
Ø Charles George "Charlie"
Macartney (1886 – 1958) cricket
“known as "The
Governor-General"
Ø Stanley
Rupert Rowley (1876-1924), Olympic Sprinter Paris 1900, member Lodge Austral
Ø Leo
Ejner Jensen (1912-1978), wrestler and physiotherapist. Australian Heavy Weight
Champion 1952
Ø Dr
William Caldwell McClelland CBE (1875-1957) Melbourne Football Club captain
1901-04, President of the Victorian Football League in 1926-55 and of the
Melbourne Cricket Club in 1944-57 Australian Football Hall of Fame.
Ø Glyn de Villiers Bosisto MBE
(1899-1990). Lawn Bowls, “created so many records that he was dubbed the (Sir
Donald) `Bradman of bowls’
Ø Lt William Dunstan VC (1895–1957), Victoria Cross Winner
Ø John Hutton Bisbee VC
(1869-1930), first Australian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross (in Boer
War, South Africa). Initiated Lodge Bulwer No 1068 England on 6 Jan 1917
Ø Lt Neville R Howse VC (1863-1930),
Australia's first Victoria Cross Winner and only medical member of the
Australian Forces to be awarded the VC. Initiated Lodge Ophir on 29 Aug 1901
Ø Captain
Albert Jacka, VC, MC with Bar (1893-1932) Australia’s first WW1 VC
Ø John Hurst Edmondson
(1914-1941) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated into Lodge Liverpool No 197 on 3
April 1935, first Australian VC of
WW2
Ø Arthur Blackburn VC (1892-1960)
Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated Peter's Collegiate Lodge No 58 South Australia
on 9 Dec 1918.
Ø Walter (Walley) Brown VC
(1885-1942) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated Lodge Godeldrie No 558 on 7 April
1931.
Ø George Cartwright VC (1894-1978)
Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated Lodge
Merrylands No 479 on 1 Nov 1923.
Ø William Currey VC (1895-1948)
Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated into Lodge Carlton No 382 on 11 March 1930.
Ø James Heather Gordon VC (1907-1986)
Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge United Service No 307 WA on 2 April
1959
Ø Blair A Wark VC (1894-1941)
Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge Lane Cove No 338 on 8 Nov 1921
Ø James Gorman VC (1834-1882)
Victoria Cross Winner initiated at The Leinster Marine Lodge Of Australia in
1878.
Ø John Woods Whittle VC (1882-1946)
Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge Sydney St Andrew no 7 on 1 Nov 1923
Ø James Rogers VC (1873-1961)
Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge Robbie Burns No 88 UGLV on 11 Nov
1913
Ø Hugo Throssell VC (1884-1933)
Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge Bulwer No 1068 England on 15 June
1917
Ø William Donovan Joynt VC
(1889-1986) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Old Melbournians Lodge no 317
UGLV on 12 Oct 1923.
Ø George J Howell VC (1893-1964)
Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated into Freemasonry on 2 Dec 1920.
Ø Major
Frederick Harold Tubb VC(1881 - 1917) Victoria Cross
Winner
Ø Corporal
Cameron Stewart Baird VC, MG (1981-2013) Victoria Cross
Winner, Initiated on the 23rd September 2006 in Lodge Thespian No. 256 ULG
NSW & ACT.
Ø Col Dr Sir Weary Dunlop
AC, CMG, OBE (1907-1993) , War Hero & Doctor WW2 Japanese POW, Changi
Railway - saved hundreds including Sir William Clavel (author of Shogun) Initiated in
Lodge Liberation, No 674 in 1954 UGLV
Ø Major-General
Harold Edward "Pompey"
Elliott CB, CMG, DSO,
DCM, VD (1878–1931), a legend among 1st AIF soldiers, and
later a Senator for Victoria
Ø Chief Air Marshall Sir Frederick Rudolph William Scherger KBE, CB, DSO, AFC (1904-1984), air force
officer, airline commissioner and company chairman. Australians highest known Military
ranking Freemason. He served as Chief of the Air Staff,
the RAAF's highest-ranking position (1957 – 1961) and as Chairman of the Chiefs
of Staff Committee (1961 -1966), forerunner of the role of Australia's Chief of the Defense Force.
He was the first RAAF officer to hold the rank of Air Chief Marshal (the
equivalent of 4 Stars). MMM of Werribee Mark Lodge No.98 (Craft Lodge currently
unknown – was WM Adastral Lodge No. 397, 1939-1945),
Ø Jack Lockett OAM (1891-2002)
was Australia's oldest man and oldest war veteran when he died at the age of
111 and was honoured with a State Funeral in Victoria 80 years as a Freemason
.
Ø Air Commodore Rex Taylor
CBE, John Knox Lodge
Ø Brigadier Sir William
Hall KBE DSO ED
Ø Major-General Sir Robert
Risson DSO CBE CB OStJ Kt(1901-1992). Chairman Melbourne and
Metropolitan Tramways Board . Joined
Freemasonry in 1961 and 25th Grand Master of the UGLV 1974 - 1976 chief commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association
1958-1963 Initiated Baden Powell 24 July 1961
Ø Major-General Frank E.
Poke (?-2015) AO, RFD ED PDGM Victorian Grand Master
Ø Major-General Sir Alan
Ramsay (1895-1973)
Ø Major-General R Kendall
Ø Major
General John Keatly Forsyth CMG (1867-1928) commander Fourth Light Horse
Regiment Arrived Gallipoli May 1914
Ø Major-General RE Jackson
Ø Major-General AG Wilson
Ø Major-General RE Wade CB
CBE (1924-1995)
Ø Major
General (CMF) John Rowlstone Stevenson DSO CBE (1908-1971), parliamentary
officer and soldier. Battalion & Brigade Commander. Served on the Kokoda
Track. accepted the surrender of the Japanese forces on Nauru and Ocean islands
Ø Major-General Paul
Alfred Cullen AC, CBE, DSO & Bar, ED (1909 – 2007) Battalion commander on the Kokoda Track, founder
and first chairman of Austcare and a noted philanthropist (born
Paul Cohen to Judah Cohen, a member of a long standing Australian Jewish
Family)
Ø Allan Gordon Cameron DSO
and Bar (1909-1960), bank officer and soldier was awarded the DSO with Bar in
New Guinea
Ø Brigadier Sir Bernard
Evans (1905-1981) architect, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1959-1961
Ø Chap-General Rev Albert Thomas Holden
CBE (1866-1935) , 7th Grand Master UGLV 1912-1914 . Leader in the Methodist
Church . Initiated Grange Lodge 27 Sept 1898 Holden Masonic
Research Circle in named in his honour .
Ø Lieutenant-General Sir Carl Jess CB, CMG, CBE, DSO (1884-1948)
Ø Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Morshead KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED (1889-1959),
Commander Rats of Tobruk and New Guinea and Borneo Campaigns
Ø Brigadier The Hon MWJ Bourchier CMG,
DSO, VD, MLA (1881-1937) led his Regiment, the 4th Australian
Light Horse, in the Charge at Beersheba
Ø Lieutenant-General Sir Frank
Berryman KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO (1894-1981).
Ø Lieutenant-General Rudolph Bierwirth CBE
(1899-1993) Commander in Chief, British Commonwealth
Forces Korea (BCFK),
Ø Major-General EJ Milford
CB, (1894-1972) Divisional Commander (5th & 7th) WW2,
noon on 8 September 1945 Milford accepted the surrender of all Japanese troops
in Borneo
Ø Rear-Admiral Guy Griffiths
AO, DSO, DSC, RAN
He was on the HMS Repulse,
which was hit by a bomb and five torpedoes on December 10, 1941. It went down
with the loss of 513 lives.
Ø Brigadier
General Sir Walter Ramsay McNicoll DSO, KBE (1877-1947), schoolmaster,
politician, soldier and administrator. MLA. Led the 6th Battalion in the
landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April, and received one of the first awards of the
Distinguished Service Order in the A.I.F. administrator of the Mandated
Territory of New Guinea in August (1934-1942).
Ø General
John Jackson Paine (1864-1936) CBE VD Soldier and solicitor Mayor of Windsor
for 9 years
Ø Lieutenant-General Sir Horace Robertson
Ø Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley George Savige KBE, CB, DSO, MC, ED (1890-1954)
soldier
and founder of Legacy. Landed Gallipoli 6 March 1915
Ø Lieutenant Colonel B.R.
(Barry) Tinkler, MBE Australian Army Training Team Vietnam
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Harold
Luxton, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne (1888-1957)
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
George Francis Murphy CMG DSO with bar,
(1883-1962) soldier, teacher and administrator. DSO with Bar foundation
member of Sydney Legacy
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
Walter Edmund Hutchinson Cass CMG (1876-1931), soldier and commandant. brigade
major of the 2nd Brigade, A.I.F. that took part in the landing at Anzac Cove
but unit was transferred to Cape Helles to advance against the Turks at Krithia
on 8 May. Battalion Commander.
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Harold
Stokes CBE (1899-1977), engineer, company director. in 1952-74 President of the
Austin Hospital and chairman of the board of the Cancer Institute
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
Dr Howard Kynaston Denham DSO (1883-1972), soldier and medical practitioner.
Battalion commander. Initiated 1911
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
Dr Arthur Ross Clayton DSO (1876-1963), medical practitioner mayor of the
Moonta 1924-26 & 1939-40
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
Herbert William Lloyd, CB, CMG, CVO ,DSO (1883 - 1957) MLA Fought at Gallipoli
where he earned his DSO
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
Theodore Gordon Walker DSO (1900-1971), army officer and businessman. 24th
Battalion Commander. POW
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Hazell Elliott CMG, DSO and Bar CMG (1882-1956) , soldier and clerk.
Within hours of the landing at Gallipoli on 25 April took command of the 12th battalion
following the wounding of other officers. Commanded in France and received the
Légion d'honneur. Initiated 1911
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
George Henry Dean (1859-1953), soldier, stock and station agent and grazier. July
1912 appointed to command the 8th Light Horse Brigade, 1915 as a Lt-Colonel
commanded the 13th Light Horse Regiment which served, unmounted, at Gallipoli
from early September
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
William Charles Nightingale Waite MC (1880-1973), soldier and auctioneer.
Served in Boer War, WW1 &2 (home). Landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and
served there until the evacuation in December, first commanding the 7th Field
Artillery Battery and then the 8th, MC at Gallipoli . member of the Burnside
Town Council for seventeen years. The Colonel Waite Memorial Oval at Kensington
Gardens, Adelaide, honours his service to the council. At 90 he presided over
the last memorial meeting of Boer War veterans. Especially well known as chief
marshal on Anzac Days in Adelaide; proudly mounted on a dapple-grey charger, he
led the parade on twenty-nine occasions.
Ø Lieutenant-Colonel
Ernest Arthur Kendall CMG (1876-1938), veterinary surgeon. First Chair
Victoria’s Milk Board
Ø Lieutenant
Colonel Sir Byrne Hart MC, CBE (1895-1989), soldier, accountant and company
director. From January 1943 commanded the 2nd Australian Water Transport Group
Ø Wing Commander William Lloyd Brill DSO, DFC with Bar (1916-1964), RAAF
officer
Ø Colonel
Sir Thomas Charles (Tom) Eastick DSO, CMG, ED (1900-1988), engineer and army
officer. Regiment Commander. RSL State president Took the Japanese surrender at
Kuching Borneo in 1945
Ø Colonel
Alexander Robert Heron DSO CMG (1888-1949), soldier and pharmacist. Battalion
commander WW1 & 2.
Ø Colonel
Terrance (Terry) Raymond
Bates (1934?- 2015).
Ø Colonel
James Campbell Stewart DSO with Bar, CMG (1884-1947), soldier and public
servant, acting battalion commander Gallipoli , Brigade Commander France
Ø Colonel
Leslie Walker (?-?), member first South Australian Lodge, Hand of Friendship EC
#613. Walker Street Adelaide is named
after him
Ø Colonel
Burford Sampson DSO (1882-1959), soldier and politician. Platoon commander at
Gallipoli, MLC
Ø Major Alexander Thomas
Paterson MC (1886-1950), soldier and businessman.
Ø Major
William Adolphus (Bill) Chaffey (1915-1987), farmer and politician MLA. Served
in Z’ Special Unit 1944-45 Initiated in 1940
Ø Major
George Bland Humble (1839-1930), teacher and Fremantle town clerk
Ø Brigadier Raymond Walter
Tovell CBE, DSO and Bar, ED. (1890–1966) MP. Chief Patron of the Rats
of Tobruk Association. MLA
Ø Brigadier
Arthur Harry Langham Godfrey MC, DSO and Bar (1896-1942), army officer and
auctioneer. Battalion Commander. Served in WW1 & 2. Most senior A.I.F.
officer killed in action at El Alamein. .
Ø Captain
John Edwin (Jack) McKeddie MC and Bar (1902-1980), army officer and
stockbroker, aide-de-camp to Major General (Sir) Leslie Morshead in 1941 and
served with him during the siege of Tobruk.
Ø Captain
James Croker Ferguson, J.P (1830?-1891)., “ONE of the most expert riflemen in
the colony”
Ø Bruce Ruxton
(1926-2011), former President of Victorian RSL.
Ø Lieutenant
William Sinclair MM MC (1887-1959), soldier, boxmaker and sales representative
Ø Captain
Robert Russell Fullarton (1829-1895), naval officer and public servant. Naval
Commander (all Naval Reserves) Melbourne Harbour Master
Ø John
Alexander Watson DSO (1891-1980), grocer, insurance agent and army officer.
Logistics officer during the siege at Tobruk
Ø James Boag (c.1822-1890),
brewer , founded “J. Boag & Son” in February 1883 .
Ø Thomas Mayne (1901-1995)
developed the drink "Milo" still sold today. Initiated into Lodge
King Edward No 189 UGLV.
Ø Harry Melbourne
(1913-2007) invented the "Freddo Frog" chocolate. Initiated into
Freemasonry at Victoria Park Lodge No 388 UGLV on 24 April 1944.
Ø Frederick Peters
(1836-1937) founded Peter's Ice-cream. Initiated into Terre Coupee Lodge No 204
Grand Lodge of Indiana on 27 Dec 1890
Ø Fred Walker (1884-1935)
best remembered for creating "Vegemite" Spread. Initiated at Austral
Temple Lodge No 110 UGLV on 9 July 1919
Ø Cecil Albert Gregory
(1894-1974) Founder of "Gregory's Street Directory of Sydney and
Suburbs" . Initiated Lodge Arcadia No 177 UGLNSW on 12 May 1922.
Ø Mervyn Richardson (1893-1972)
invented the Victa Lawn Mower. Initiated Lodge Wentworth no 89 on 6 Feb 1945.
Ø Joseph
Best (1830-1887) and Henry Best (1832-1913), vignerons, founded the vineyard
that today trades as “Seppelts Great Western Wines”
Ø Sir James Gilbert Hardy
(1932- ) winemaker and businessman noted for his yachting
achievements. Initiated Lodge City of Sydney 952 on 21 November 1962
Ø Sir Edward John Lees Hallstrom
(1886-1970) famous philanthropist and invented the "Silent Knight
Refrigerator". Initiated at Lodge Roseville No 344 on 24 Aug 1922
Ø William
Albert Flick (1890-1980), pest exterminator, founded W. A. Flick & Co., Australia's
largest pest control company, and one that was among the largest in the world
Ø William
Dymock (1861-1900), bookseller
Ø William
Knox (1850-1913), businessman and politician. MLA, MLC. 1885 secretary Broken
Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd “Generally regarded as the brains behind B.H.P” Sat on
board of Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd & BHP. President Melbourne
Chamber of Commerce. Malvern Shire councilor & President. Declined a
Knighthood.
Ø Sir
Alfred Henry Ashbolt (1870-1930), notable businessman fostered economic
development , particularly in Tasmania. Consul for Russia in Tasmania until he
resigned on the outbreak of the revolution. President Royal Hobart Golf Club
Ø John
Crann (1848-1935), sugar refiner, one of the Cranns of Robert Cran & Co.
Ø William
James (Bill) Proud (1871-1931), jeweler founded “Prouds the Jewellers “
Ø Frank
Whiddon (1877- 1947). With this brother, founded Whiddon Bros Ltd. Initiated
into Lodge Neutral Bay No. 267. Grand Master UGLNSW 1945.
Ø Henry
Perdriau (1845-1935), pioneer rubber merchant and manufacturer. Director
Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber Co. Ltd.
Ø Sir George
Victor Lansell (1883-1959), businessman, politician and philanthropist.
Director of the Sandhurst Trustees' Co. MLC
& Director of many companies like Bendigo Pottery Company Ltd
Ø Sir
Gordon Burns Rolph CMG (1893-1959). Businessman and Newspaper Owner. President
of the Australian Provincial Press Association, Launceston Chamber of Commerce,
Federated Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire , Honorary Justices'
Association of Tasmania , National Agricultural and Pastoral Society ,
Launceston War Memorial Community Centre Association , Royal Society of St
George , Royal Commonwealth Society , Launceston Rotary Club & the
Australian Federation of Commercial Broadcasting Stations. Chairman of
Australian Provincial Daily Press and delegate to four Imperial Press
conferences. Chief executive of the Tasmanian Executors and Trustees
Association Pty Ltd, Equitable Building Society, Walpamur Co. (Aust.) Ltd,
Cleanquick Pty Ltd, Tip Top Paints (Aust.), Tamar Services Pty Ltd, Tasmanian
Softwoods Pty Ltd and United Dairies and Cool Stores of Tasmania.
Ø Charles
Andrew Ord MBE. (1905-1977), banker and stockbroker. Philanthorpist. Co-founded
Ord & Minnett, later acquired other businesses and developed into one of
Australia's leading brokerage businesses. State Chair National Heart Foundation
of Australia
Ø Hugo
Carl Emil Muecke (1842-1929), MLC politician, customs and shipping agent, Honorary
German Consul 1882-1914. Boards of the Bank of Adelaide, Adelaide Steamship Co.
Ltd and Executor Trustee & Agency Co. of South Australia Ltd and the local
boards of South British Fire & Marine Insurance Co. and National Mutual
Life Association of Australasia (1878-1915). Chairman BHP (1914). MLA.
Naturlalised but still interned in April 1916 at Fort Largs District Grand
Master SC in SA
Ø William
Holyman (1833-1919), master mariner and ship owner. In 1911 bought automobiles
to carry mail from Launceston to Beauty Point, the first regular mail service
by motor car in Tasmania
Ø Thomas
Swallow (1823-1890), businessman, manufacturer, mechanical inventor, member of
the first municipal council Sandridge (Port Melbourne) (1860) and was mayor for
several terms before retiring in 1875. Major Volunteer Artillery SWALLOW ST
Port Melbourne was named after him, noted for founding the Swallow & Ariel
biscuit factory which at the time (1850's) was the 5th largest steam biscuit
factory in the WORLD. Swallow's Landing & Swallow Rd & Swallow Street
Cairns also named after him.
Ø Sir
Roderick William Miller CBE (1911-1971), company director, transport pioneer. Pioneered
the coal trade with Japan (and later with Europe)
Ø Joseph
Taylor (Joe) Coffill (1841-1919), teamster, livery stable proprietor and
funeral director In 1912 Coffill merged with A. C. J. Wood to form the largest
funeral-directing enterprise in Sydney.
Ø John
Vans Agnew Bruce (1822-1863), road and railway construction contractor . By
1857 was well known as one of the largest employers of labour in the colony.
Ø Leo
Susman (1832-1903), German Jew, Merchant & Freemason, one of Hobart's wealthiest shop-keepers.
Initiated Tasmanian Union Lodge, presented with the first Past Master jewel
ever given to a Past Master in Tasmania, 25 year chair (?-1898) Tasmanian
Masonic Benevolence Fund.
Ø Herbert
Taylor (1885-1970), accountant and company director, conservative party
organizer. President Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. Treasurer and President
RACV. (check this he was life governor of freemason hospital but no mention of
initiation.. )
Ø Thomas
Alison Scott (1777?-1881), father of the Australian sugar and banana
industries,
Ø James
McFarlane Lapsley PM (1856-1931), fire brigade officer & inventor. Invented
Lapsley condenser . Grand Master WA SC
1906 to 1931. Lapsley Street Dunlop ACT is named in his honour for is
invention.
Ø James
Freeland Leacock - inventor of the "ute" in 1929 application to
register a convertible body for motor vehicles was submitted to the Patents
Office on behalf of inventor James Freeland Leacock, and accepted in 1930.
Leacock’s invention pre-dated the launch of the first official Australian ‘ute’
by five years.
Ø Sir Francis Howard
Greenway (1777-1837), colonial era architect (Also under convicts) His image
was on the old Australian $10 note
Ø Eric Hughes (1901-1964)
President Royal Victorian Institute of Architects 20th Grand Master UGLV
1963-1964 Initiated Lodge Amity 22 Feb 1934
Ø John
Smith Murdoch CMG (1862-1945), architect and public servant. Chief architect
for the Commonwealth of Australia from 1919, responsible for designing many
government buildings, most notably the Provisional Parliament House in
Canberra, the home Federal Parliament 1927 - 1988. ( )
Ø
John Petrie (1822-1992), architect, politician, first
Mayor of Brisbane , active member of the first Masonic lodge
in Queensland.
Ø Percy
William Harrison (1864-1951)
notable architect , President of WAIA from 1907-1909
Ø Lieutenant-General
Sir Talbot Hobbs KCB,
KCMG, VD (1864-1938) , soldier, notable architect , involved
in many community organizations such as Surf Life-Saving, RSL, Boy Scouts and
Rotary and Legacy Pro Grand Master
Ø William
Charles Vahland (1828 – 1915) City of Sandhurst councilor, Chairman and
Managing director of the Bendigo Mutual Permanent Land and Building Society ,
Freemason and acclaimed architect , Bendigo’s Alexandra Fountain, Town Hall,
Capital Theatre and the Anne Caudle Centre were all designed by Vahland who is
credited with designing around 100 buildings and landmarks throughout the
region Initiated Golden Lodge of Bendigo in 1857
Ø Thomas
English (1819-1884). Gawler Mayor . MLC Colonial
Architect
Ø George
Thomas Temple Poole (George Thomas Temple-Poole) (1856-1934), architect ,
Western Australian superintendent of public works. Thirty-four of the
approximately 200 for which he was responsible had been classified by the
National Trust of Australia by 1980 as 'essential to the heritage of Australia
and must be preserved'; most important of these are Treasury Buildings &
the Lands Department in Perth. Founder of the Western Australian Institute of
Architects (1896), four times its President.
Ø Robert Flack Richards (c
1866-1938, 72 when he died), Hobart architect
Ø Lange Leopold Powell
(1886-1938), architect
Ø Cuthbert
Claude Mortier Whitley (1886-1942), architect and public servant played
Australian Rules football with the Hawthorn Football Club in Melbourne and won
several golf trophies in Canberra
Ø Joel
Eade (1823-1911), builder, architect and educationist, magistrate and mayor of
Collingwood in 1870-71. Life governor of the Melbourne Hospital. Mayor of
Collingwood (1870-71)
Ø John
Burcham Clamp (1869-1931), architect & Indigenous Rights supporter
Ø Clements
Langford (1853-1930), master builder, Anglican lay leader. Built many buildings in Melbourne and Victoria,
built spires at St Pauls Cathedral at cost, many conspicuous buildings, such as
Scott's Hotel, Centre Way Arcade, Astor Theatre the Comedy Theatre, the Myer
Emporium, the Colosseum at Prahran, and Ball and Welch's building, were
constructed under his direction
Ø Ernest
Alfred Watts (1893-1979), builder, built building in Bourke Street for G. J.
Coles & Co. Pty Ltd, and additions to the National Gallery of Victoria. He
built many large structures, including the Chevron Hotel (1934), the southern
stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (1936) and the Hotel Australia (1939).
Elected, unopposed, as president (1938-39) of the Master Builders Association
of Victoria
Ø Sir William Alexander
Dargie CBE (1912-2003) artist, portrait painter, holds the current record for
the most Archibald Prizes won (eight). Official artist during WW2. Initiated
June 1951 Lodge Arboreal No 641 UGLV, received a 50 year Jewel of Service in
the Craft.
Ø Henry William Mobsby
(1860-1933), artist, photographer
and motion picture pioneer . took the first moving picture footage in
Queensland in 1898 using Lumiere cinematograph, Member of the Lodge, Indooroopilly, No.155, United Grand
Lodge of Queensland
Ø Carl Magnus Oscar Friström
(1856-1918),professional painter, President New
Society of Artists
Ø George
Frederick Harris ( 1856 - 1924), artist
Ø Harry
Pelling Gill (1855-1916), painter, art curator and teacher,
Ø James
Ashton (1859-1935), artist. President (Royal) South Australian Society of Arts
Ø Philip Blashki, born
Favel Wagczewski (1837-1916) Silversmith. Initiated Lodge Judah circa 1865
Ø Air Commodore Sir
Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935), aviator who was first to cross the Pacific
from the US to Brisbane in about 1928 . He was a MM of a Brisbane lodge, and, as a matter of interest,
it is his MM apron which is perambulated in the memorial service each Anzac Day
in the Brisbane Memorial Masonic Centre . Initiated at Gascoyne Lodge on 9 April 1925.
Ø Lawrence Hargrave (1850-1915)
aviation pioneer . Initiated at United Service Lodge of New South Wales No 937
English Const on 2 April 1877
Ø Allan Robert Stanley
Vickers, flying doctor, see the Medicine section.
Ø Chief Air Marshall Sir Frederick Rudolph William Scherger KBE, CB, DSO, AFC (1904-1984), see the Military Men section.
While it is “unmasonic” to
discriminate on race, it strongly appears that discrimination did occur,
especially in the 1800’s. Incidents such as the Lambing Flat Riot and
Anti-Chinese legislation evidences this. Chinese Australian Freemasons of the
Nineteenth Century are therefore of particularly of interest. In the Twentieth
Century, diversity is commonplace, especially after WW2. Please don’t confuse
“Chinese Masonic Society” with “Freemasonry” – these are often two different
things and in the Chinese context “Masonic” is applied to varied organizations
such as Tongs, Huis Triads, Kongsi, some being criminal, some fraternal, others
co-operatives or political.
Ø Mei Quong Tart (Mei Guangda) (1850–1903), philanthropist, first
Chinese Initiate in Australia in 1885 “was one of Sydney’s most famous philanthropists and well-loved
personalities” initiated into
the Lodge of Tranquility in 1885.
Ø Way
Lee, Yet Soo War (c. 1853–1909) Chinese businessman & philanthropist,
leading Chinese figure in Adelaide in the late nineteen century United Trademen Lodge SAC
Ø Sun Johnson
Chinese Freemason
Ø WRG
Lee and his son William Lee
Ø William
Robert George Lee was initiated on 18 August 1890
Ø James
Chuey
Ø William
Ah Ket (1876-1936), barrister & Chinese Community Leader. co-founder and
president of the Sino-Australian Association, the first Australian-Chinese
club. acting consul-general for China in 1913-14 and in 1917
(It is worth noting that Freemasons are
generally be expelled from the Craft on serious conviction, while men with criminal
convictions can find it difficult to become a Freemason.)
Ø Sir
Henry Browne Hayes (1762-1832), convict , transported to New South Wales for
kidnapping Mary Pike, heiress to a fortune of £20,000 Attempted in 1803 to
found a Masonic Lodge for which he incurred the displeasure of Governor King.
It is doubtful if Hayes had a warrant to establish a lodge, though he claimed
he did, but his meeting on 14 May 1803 is regarded as the foundation day of
Freemasonry in Australia. The very first St Patrick's day ceremony held in New
South Wales was on the 17th March 1810 at Sir Henry Browne Hayes's Vaucluse home,
Ø Robert William Felton Lathrop Murray (1777-1850), convict (bigamy,
pardoned). , editor Colonial Times, journalist. “Father of Freemasonry” in
Tasmania.
Ø Richard
Fitzgerald (1772-1840), convict, public servant and settler. One of the early
proprietors of the Bank of New
South Wales. “..one of the earliest Freemasons in the country and is
said to have played a considerable part in establishing the craft in Sydney;
this is supported by a strong tradition, but his name has not been found in
early Masonic documents”
Ø James
Alexander Thomson (1805-1860), architect, engineer and building contractor.
Emancipist transported for theft. Superintendent of the church building at
Richmond Tasmania (St Luke's 1834-37). Conditional pardon in Jan 1835 - immediately
set up a business in Liverpool Street, not only as architect, engineer and
surveyor, but also as valuer, estate agent, map printer and dealer in machinery.
His spectacular buildings were few, unquestionably the most interesting and
important work is the Hobart Synagogue (1843-45), the most comprehensive
example of the Regency Egyptian style in Australia. Whatever his merits as
architect, and they are relatively minor, Thomson provides a remarkable case of
a former convict establishing himself as a successful businessman and was respected
in many circles .
Ø Dr
William Bland (1789-1868), medical practitioner, surgeon, and politician . Sydney's
first full-time private practitioner. Naval surgeon who was sent to Australia
as a convict after killing a shipmate in
a pistol duel. Philanthropist. MLA . First president of the Australian Medical
Association formed in 1859. Accorded a state funeral.
Ø Samuel
Clayton (?-?, 1783?-1853?) portraitist, engraver, art teacher and silversmith ,
, a Past Master of Lodge No.6, Dublin , The Master of Ceremonies at the
earliest lodge in Australia and without whose guidance the new lodge might not
have survived. Transported to NSW, reputedly for forgery, engraved the
banknotes for the Bank of New South Wales when it opened its doors on 8 April
1817, also engraved the first banknotes for the Van Diemen’s Land Bank.
Received his ticket of leave on 1 October 1824,
Ø Francis Howard Greenway
(1777-1837), colonial era architect (Aslo under architects). Greenway appeared
on the old Australian Paper $10 note
(Although “irregular” Freemasons, these women were
almost certainly influenced by their membership in a Masonic Order.)
Ø Edith Cowan (1861-1932)
(Co-Freemason), first woman elected to Australian Parliament , women's activist , Member of St Cuthberts Lodge Perth Australia
(Le Droit Humain)
Ø Bessie
Mabel Rischbieth (née Earle) (Co-Freemason) ,
OBE (1874-1967) was an influential and early Australian feminist and social
activist
Ø Fanny
Furner (1864–1938) (Co-Freemason) activist
who worked to further the rights of women and children in the early 1900s in
Sydney.
Ø Col Dr Sir Weary Dunlop
is listed under “Military Men”
Ø Dr Allan Robert Stanley
Vickers CMG , MB, ChM (1901-1967), flying doctor
Ø Dr George Bankin Bearham
OBE (1899-) leading Melbourne surgeon, gynecologist and obstetrician . Past Grand Master Initiated Clarke Lodge I June 1927
Ø Dr Walter Balls-Headley
(1841{1842?}-1918), gynecologist, Grand Master Victoria in 1905-07 initiated Sir Isaac Newton Lodge 1161 14 June
1861
Ø Caleb Soul (1817-1894),
druggist and chemist,
Ø Sidney Firth Lumb
(1893-1988), professor of dentistry, House surgeon and superintendent Melbourne
Dental Hospital. Dean Dental faculty at University of Queensland, Fellow Royal
Colleges of Surgeons of England
Ø Dr Isaac
Aaron (1804-1877), medical practitioner. Royal College of Surgeons. Editor Australian Medical Journal which he
purchased in 1847.
Ø Dr John
Maund (1823-1858), physician and analytical chemist. He and Joseph Black were
appointed founding editors of the Australian Medical Journal. Co-founded Melbourne’s
Royal Women's Hospital
Ø Dr.
Richard Thomas Tracy (1826-1874) One of original committee that first published
in 1856 the Australian Medical Journal. With John Maund was co-founder in 1856
of the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Women and
Children (later the Royal Women's Hospital). Performed the first successful
ovariotomy in Victoria (1864) and quickly established an international
reputation as a pioneer gynecological surgeon
Ø Dr Handasyde
Duncan (1811-1878), medical practitioner. An original member of the Medical
Board of South Australia (1844), and served on it until his death; his name was
third of the original seven on its medical register. Initiated 1853.
Ø Dr Joseph
Steigrad CBE (1902-1971), surgeon and soldier. Fellow of the Royal Australasian
College of Surgeons, Military Hospital Commander. Jewish Community Leader
Ø Dr
Arthur Richardson, (1844-1927) doctor pioneer in Kalgoorlie member Kalgoorlie
Council, temperance advocate
Ø Dr William Hull Lewis (1806-1875)
Doctor, surgeon and magistrate in Gawler
Ø Dr John
Harris (1754-1838) , formerly surgeon of the New South Wales Corps; Early Sydney Settler.
Ø Sir
John Jamison (1776 –1844) KGV Royal Navy Surgeon & prominent landowner.
Magistrate. Founding Father of NSW. Founder Bank of New South Wales. Founder
and President Agricultural and Horticultural Society of New South Wales (now
the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales) in 1822. Founder and
president (1825 - 1827) of the Sydney Turf Club. Founder and first president of
the Australian Racing and Jockey Club in 1828 . A street in Sydney is named
after him. MLC
Ø Sir
George Strickland Kingston (1807–1880) engineer
and politician, First speaker South Australian House of Assembly Kingston
Terrace Adelaide is named after him
Ø George
McLeay (1892-1955), politician and businessman. MLA . Senate Whip. Federal
Minister.
Ø Herbert
James Mockford Payne (1866-1944), draper and politician MLA Member Royal
Commission into Wages and Wage Earners (1906–07), Gov Minister noted for his
introduction in the Senate in July 1924 of a measure for compulsory voting in
Commonwealth elections, becoming only the second private senator’s bill since
1901 to carry Parliament. This was the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1924.
Ø Arthur
Hardy (1817-1909), pastoralist,
barrister and quarry-owner, MLA. He built the colony's first country Mechanics'
Institute. First District Grand Master of the English Freemasons in South
Australia 1867-84
Ø Ebenezer
Cooke (1832-1907), accountant, parliamentarian and public servant. MLA. Commissioner
of audit. Established audit officials as a distinct branch of the civil
service. First President Public Service Association
Ø John
Sutherland (1816-1889), builder and politician. MLA, MLC. Major of Sydney 1861.
Ø Alexander
Wilson (1889-1954), farmer and politician
Ø Sir
Henry Briggs (1844-1919), headmaster and politician, Federationalist. President
of the Legislative Council
Ø Sir John Quick (1852- 1932)
Federationalist,
lawyer politician and
member Sandhurst for 9 years . Member first Parliament of Australia Initiated Lodge Judah 5 Nov
1879
Ø Joseph
Wearne (1832-1884), flour-miller and politician. MLA, Orangeman, Temperance
advocate.
Ø William
Dartnell Johnson (1870-1948), carpenter and politician. MLA. Labor Party
Leader. One of the first State parliamentarians to oppose conscription and
consequently lost his seat at the 1917 election. Speaker and Chair Parliamentary
Party.
Ø David
Robert Hall (1874-1945), lawyer and politician. Solicitor-General, Attorney-General,
MLA MLC
Ø Sir Edwin Thomas Smith KCMG , (1830-1919) brewer,
philanthropist and politician , mayor of
Kensington and Norwood in 1867-70 and 1871-73, member of each house of
Parliament (MLA, MLC) initiated East Torrens Lodge of Faith No.408 I.C. (later
the Lodge of Faith No.9) Sir Edwin Smith Avenue, Adelaide is named after him,
Ø William
Francis Schey (1857-1913), union leader, Orangeman, politician and public
servant, MLA
Ø Vincent
Pyke (1827-1894), politician, public servant, magistrate and writer, MLA, MLC
Ø Charles
William Oakes (1861-1928), jeweler and politician Deputy Leader of the
Nationalist Party, Minster, and acting NSW Premier. President of the New South
Wales Rugby Union and the Cricket Association, chairman of trustees of the
Sydney Cricket Ground and vice-president of the Surf Life Saving Institution.
Orangeman.
Ø John
Wheeler (1853-1915), accountant, Orangeman and politician
Ø Stanley
R. Whitford (1878-1959), politician, unionist, anti-conscriptionist.
Ø William
Henry Wilks (1863-1940), fuel merchant, politician and public servant, Grand
Master Grand Lodge of Scotland. Orangeman.
Ø Henry
Roberts Williams (1848-1935), mining director and politician MLA, miners rights
Ø John
Arthur Wright (1841-1920), politician, engineer and railway commissioner
Ø Thomas
(Tom) Armstrong (1885-1955), businessman and politician
Ø Leslie
Frank Louis (Les) Diplock (1899-1983), schoolteacher and politician, member of
the DLP
Ø Aubrey
Slessar (?- 1972) served 3 terms in QLD parliament
Ø George
Kerr (1853-1930), blacksmith, politician and grazier. MLA. Leader of the
Parliamentary Labor Party & Minister for Railways
Ø Andrew
Hendry Ross (1829-1910), medical practitioner and politician. MLA
Ø John Riddoch
(1827-1901), pastoralist, parliamentarian MLA.
Ø George Riddoch (1842-1919)
pastoralist parliamentarian MLA
Ø George
Graham (1838-1922), farmer and politician, MLA. First President of the
Shepparton Shire Council. Minister of several federal departments.
Ø Alfred
Elliot Chandler (1873-1935) nurseryman, MLC, one of the first three initiates
at Peace and Loyalty UGLV and the Chandler Highway is named after With father's
backing began 47-acre Everson Nursery 1895 in area which he later named
Boronia, specialized in daffodils and boronia;
Ø Sir
Herbert Horace (Bert) Olney (1875-1957), manufacturer, politician and
philanthropist. Chair of: Victorian Hospital and Charities Board, Dental
Hospital of Melbourne, Zoological Board of Victoria, Yarra Bend National Park
Trust and chair of the Rhyll and Phillip Island Koala Reserve trusts. In 1942,
when knighted, he was a member of twenty-five committees, being president,
chairman or convener of twelve of them. MLC
Ø Frank
Augustus Chaffey (1888-1940), farmer and politician. MLA. colonial secretary
Ø Walter
Peden Joyce Skelton (1883-1979), railway officer and politician, unionist,
prohibitionist MLA. Founded & Presided over the Protestant Independent
Labour Party.
Ø Edward
Fitzgerald Russell (1867-1943), trade unionist, Port Melbourne Mayor, president
of the Trades Hall Council, Melbourne
Ø James
Tolmie (1862-1939), newspaper proprietor and politician, MLA
Ø George
Hugh Alexander Mackay (1872-1961), politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives,
MLA
Ø Sir
Henry Cuthbert KCMG (1829-1907), lawyer and politician .
MLC, Solicitor General. Ballarat identify.
Ø Emanuel
Steinfeld (1828-1893), furniture manufacturer and retailer, politician, MLC, President
Chamber of Manufactures. Mayor Ballarat East Council. Friend of Redmond Barry
Ø Albert
Edwin Elworthy Lee Tucker (1843-1902), parliamentarian, police magistrate.
Mayor Fitzroy Council. MLA. Chairman Royal Commission (1878) on closed roads
and member of the 1878 commission of inquiry into crown land, royal commissions
on the Mildura settlement in 1896 and on state forests and timber reserves in
1897, director of the Melbourne Permanent Mutual Benefit Building Society. Founding
member (1871) of the Australian Natives' Association.
Ø Evelyn
Douglas Darby (1910-1985), teacher and politician. MLA. Founded & President
(1939-53) the British Orphans Adoption Society (BOAS). Anti-communist, right
wing activist .
Ø Sir
Reginald Victor Wilson (1877-1957) , businessman and politician, MLC. Member of
the royal commission inquiring into Cockatoo Island dockyard (1921). President
Motion Picture Distributors' Association (1927-39). senior vice-chairman
(1938-57) of the Royal North Shore Hospital board, a member (1938-46) of the
National Health Research Council and chairman (1939-57) of National Press Pty
Ltd
Ø Keith
Dodgshun (1893-1971), farmer and politician. Karkarooc Shire Council, MLA . Deputy
Leader County Party, Deputy Victorian Premier
Ø Sir
David Storey (1856-1924), businessman and politician. Defeated fellow mason
Edmund Barton in Randwick 1920 election. MLA, MLC President Ulster Association
of New South Wales
Ø Tom
Cleave Stott CBE (1899-1976), wheat-farmer and politician. MLA sat in
parliament for an unbroken thirty-seven years. Speaker, post 1962 held balance of
power.
Ø Ninian
Melville (1843-1897), cabinet maker, undertaker and politician. MLA. Mayor Newtown.
Mayor Ashfield and Summer Hill. Orangeman
Ø John
Hurley (1844-1911), mining speculator and politician. MLA. Orangeman
Ø Francis
Augustus Wright (1835-1903), carrier (Wright Heaton & Co) and politician.
MLA. Mayor of Redfern. postmaster-general. Deputy District Grand Master EC
Ø Samuel
Edward Lees (1843-1916), printer and politician MLA MLC
Ø George
Cann (1871-1948), politician. President of the Western Miners' Association. MLA
Ø William
Byrnes (1809-1891), MLC . At his death on 25 October 1891 at Parramatta he had
the distinction of being both the oldest member of the Legislative Council and
the oldest Freemason in the colony.
Ø Edwin
Joseph Mackrell (1878-1965), politician MLA
Ø Andrew
Tennant (1835-1913), pastoralist and politician, MLA MLC
Ø Arthur
Herbert Whittingham (1869-1927), grazier and politician MLC
Ø Edward
Alfred Anstey (1858-1952), builder and politician, pro-conscriptionalist, He
resigned from the A. L. P. in 1916 over conscription, became a foundation
member of the National (Labor) Party
Ø Robert
Fowler (1840-1906), pottery manufacturer and politician, philanthropist. Member
1886 to the royal commission on intoxicating drink, chairman of his district
Public School Board. Director of Sydney Hospital and the Benevolent Asylum and
a Governor of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for twenty-four years MLA MLC Mayor
of Sydney.
Ø Sir
Claude Ernest Weymouth James (1878-1961) , politician, president of the
Launceston Club in 1927 and of the London Club in 1942. Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Tasmania in 1926-28 and founder and first master of the
Australian Masonic Lodge, London, 1947. He was co-founder and treasurer of the
Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys, secretary of the Launceston section of the
Belgian Relief Fund and president of the Tasmanian Rights League. Initiated in
the Tasmanian St Andrew Lodge 1901. MLA Mayor of Launceston
Ø Robert
Hollis (1851-1937), engine driver, trade union leader and politician . Director of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in
1913-33 . Member of Australian Socialist
League (1894) Mayor of Launceston. MLA (NSW)
Ø Richard
Cleburne (1799-1864), merchant, politician, anti-transportationalist. MLC
Ø James
Fletcher (1834-1891) Coal Miner and mine owner, newspaper owner &
politician, First president Miners' Union (1861), First Mayor of Wallsend. In
1876, he became proprietor of the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate.
“The Largest Funeral Newcastle Had Ever Seen, 25,000 People Lined the Streets“ MLA
Ø Frederick
William Coneybeer (1859-1950), trade unionist and politician, Speaker of the
House. minister of education MLA
Ø John
Gibson Farleigh (1861-1949), manufacturer and politician, Orangeman. MLC
Ø Sir
John Cowan (1866-1953), grazier and politician. MLC. Government whip for twenty
years, and when he retired in 1944 had the longest continuous service of any
member in both Houses. . Member Mobilong District Council for 20 years, and its
chairman for 15 years. Government Minister
Ø John
Estell (1861-1928) , coalminer and politician, Labor Party Whip 1904-1913,
anti-conscriptionist, minister for railways, trade unionist. alderman on the
Plattsburg Municipal Council in 1887-1900 and mayor in 1891, 1897 and 1899,
President of Wallsend and Plattsburg Fire Brigade, patron and president of
Plattsburg Mechanics' Institute and a member of the committee of management of
the Wallsend Mining District Hospital. MLA MLC Mayor of Plattsburg
Ø William
James Beckett CBE (1870-1965), politician. MLA MLC
Ø Thomas
Henry Brooker (1850-1927), salesman, wood-merchant and politician. Mayor of
Hindmarsh (1891) MLA
Ø Theodor
Johannes Scherk (1836-1923), teacher, agent and politician. President of the
German Club Adelaide first honorary member of the United Daughters of Australia.
MLA
Ø Joseph
Henry Lewis Turley (Henry Turley) (1859-1929), anti-consciptionalist, Trade
Union Official, MLC, MLA
Ø George
Robert (Bob) Nichols (1809-1857), lawyer and politician. MLA MLC. First
native-born Australian admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales. Owned the
Australian newspaper. Auditor General
Ø Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott
KCMG (1842-1901), solicitor and politician, federationist, MLA Grand Master NSW
(1895-1901). Speaker of the House. Initiated in 1864
Ø James
Russell (1829-1889). Merchant and Politician. In 1871-78 and 1882-89 Russell
served as a Ballarat East Councilor & Mayor in 1874-75 and 1886-87. Former
Mayor of Sebastopol. MLA. Orangemen
Ø Dr
Andrew Ross MD (1829-1910). Doctor and surgeon. Mayor of Molong. First and only
member for Molong for 25 years until seat abolished. Magistrate & MLA
Ø Sir
George Ritchie KCMG (1864-1944), river trader and politician, MLA, MLC, During
his parliamentary career he held every ministerial position and was a minister
in both Houses , a feat rarely equaled. .
“One of the earliest pioneers of the River Murray”. Mayor of Goolwa & Adelaide Alderman,
Acting Premier
Ø Sir
George Ritchie KCMG (1864-1944), river trader and politician, MLA, MLC, During
his parliamentary career he held every ministerial position and was a minister
in both Houses , a feat rarely equaled. .
“One of the earliest pioneers of the River Murray”. Mayor of Goolwa & Adelaide Alderman,
Acting Premier
Ø Sir Alexander
Lyell McEwin (1897-1988) , Wheat grower
& Politician, Chief Secretary MLC represented the SA (1925-27) in
rifle-shooting. Minister for Mines & Health
. Lyell McEwin Hospital is named for him
Ø John
Warburton (Jack) Pennington CBE (1870-1945), storekeeper, grazier and
politician, MLA, Bet Bet Shire Council in 1900-07, Party Whip in Lawson
Government 1918-23, Education Minister.
Ø Robert
Steel Byrnes MBE (1899-1979) , Presbyterian administrator, poet and writer
Ø Nathaniel
Barclay DCM (1894-1962), soldier settler and politician, ex-servicemen leader.
MLA Barkley Square Red Cliffs, Victoria is named for him
Ø Joseph
Vardon (1843-1913), printer and politician, temperance advocate. Mayor of
Hindmarsh in 1888-9 MLC
Ø Edward
Charles Vardon (1866–1937) Printer and Politician. MLA MLC (son of Joseph
Vardon (1843-1913))
Ø James
Aitchison Johnston Hunter (1882-1968), accountant and politician. Co-founder
Queensland Country Party at Toowoomba in 1936. MLA
Ø James
Park Dawson Laurie (aka “Park Laurie”) (1846-1928) MLA.
Founder Mt Gambier Lodge
Ø Ephraim
Henry Coombe (1858-1917), journalist and politician, MLA. South Australian town
of Coombe is named after him.
Ø Arthur Wade OAM (1919 –
2014)– MLA for Newcastle from 1968 to 1988
Ø Cecil
Thompson (‘Charlie’) Oliver AM (1901-1990), trade union official, politician,
MLA. ALP State President, NSW Secretary AWU. Initiated 1962
Ø Thomas
Davies Mutch (1885-1958), journalist, socialist, trade union official,
reformer, politician and historian. MLA, Minister for Education Trustee of
Public Library of New South Wales 1916-1958
Ø James
Tobias (Toby) Ryan (1818-1899), butcher, pastoralist, politician and sportsman.
MLA . First Master of Queen's Lodge 982 EC in Penrith NSW.
Ø Sir
Maurice Charles O'Connell, (1812-1879), soldier,
public servant and politician President and member MLC First provincial Grand
Master of the Irish Constitution, in Queensland, Queensland Pioneer O’Connell
Town (now Newtown NSW) is named for him or his wife.
Ø Sir
Frederick Palgrave Barlee KCMG (1827-1884), WA Colonial Secretary 1855-77 ,
Magistrate, & MLC . first president of the Working Men's Association in
1864 ; Lieutenant-Governor of the British Honduras from 1877-1882;
Administrator of Trinidad in 1884.
Ø Charles Edward Camidge
(1837-1911), Anglican Bishop
Ø Dr Harrington Clare Lees
(1870-1929), Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne 1921-1929, foundation
member of the Old Melburnians' Masonic Lodge.
Ø Rev HG Cranswick, Bishop
of Gippsland
Ø Henry Lowther Clarke
(1850-1926), Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne Provincial Grand Master of
Masonic Province of the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire .
Ø Charles
L Riley (1855-1930 or 1854-1929?) Archbishop of
Perth. He served as Chaplain General of the Australian army units during WW1.
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia, “ his spiritual influence
in the development of the Australian lodges still exists” Initiated into Peace and
Unity 314 Lancaster
Ø Moses Rintel (1823-1880)
Jewish minister & philanthropist first Rabbi of Melbourne
Ø Sir Israel Brodie
KBE. (1895-1975) (Very Rev) Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation
of the British Commonwealth . Duke of Sussex Lodge No 48 UGLV
Ø Rabbi Raymond Apple AO RFD (1935-) The
Great Synagogue Sydney “retired in 2005 after many years as
Australia’s highest-profile Rabbi”
Ø Christopher Thomas Frow
Goy MBE (1897-1982) Moderator Presbyterian Church in Victoria 1956-?
Ø Joseph John Booth MC
(1886-1965) Fourth Archbishop of Melbourne and Bishop of Geelong (Church of
England), Initiated 15 September 1914 Footscray St John's Lodge N 71
Ø Chap Archdeacon GE
Lambie, Past Grand Chaplain
Ø Horace
Crotty (1886-1951) Church of England Bishop of Bathhurst (N.S.W.) 1928-1936
Ø Rabbi Jacob Danglow CMG OBE VD (1880-1962), Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, Army
Chaplain
Ø Rev T.J. Riddle, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church
of Victoria
Ø George
C. Barber President-General of Methodist Church of Australia (1948-51)
Ø Rabbi
Dr Joseph Abrahams M.A. (1855?–1938?) Worshipful Master of the Lodge of
Australia Felix (1908) and Grand Chaplain of UGLV (1910), Chief Rabbi Melbourne
Hebrew Congregation.
Ø Joseph
Hunter Goble (1863–1932) “one of the best known Baptist Ministers in Australia” “Joe Goble's rapport with working men and
women made his ministry one of the most outstanding in Australia”
Ø Robert
Kirkwood Ewing (c.1823-1899), minister of religion and controversialist. President
Launceston Philharmonic Society and formed St Andrew's Teetotal Society.
President of Launceston Mechanics' Institute. Became Provincial Grand Master in
1858 moderator of the Presbyterian Church in 1863
Ø Walter
Albiston (1889-1965), Congregational minister. Secretary of the Congregational
Union of Victoria. Secretary then President of the Congregational Union of
Australia and New Zealand.
Ø James
Douglas Northey (1890-1975), Congregational clergyman, chairman Congregational
Union of Victoria. President Council of Churches of Victoria. In 1938 helped
found Christian Commonwealth Movement. President Melbourne College of Divinity.
Principal Congregational College of Victoria, Congregational Union of Australia
and New Zealand. Initiated 1921, Grand Chaplain.
Ø Thomas
Parking (Tom) Willason (1882?-1939), Methodist Minister
Ø Edward
Sidney Kiek (1883-1959) Congregational minister. “revitalized the South
Australian theological world in the 1920s”
Ø William
Marcus Dill Macky (1849-1913), Presbyterian minister, Orangeman. “.. a
controversial and militant Protestant, with an impeccable Irish Protestant
lineage.” Founder and First President Protestant Defense Association. Editor
“Watchman” (1902-1904) selling 20,000 copies per week.
Ø Robert
Wilson Macaulay (1882-1951), Presbyterian clergyman. Executive-member (1920-48)
Australian League of Nations Union (United Nations Association) and of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (1944-48). Moderator
Victorian Assembly. first president (1932-38) of the Christian Social Order
Movement. Moderator-General (1942-45) of the Presbyterian Church of Australia
Ø Isack
Morris (1881-1951), notable Rabbi
Ø Asher
Hymen Hart (?-?), First WM Australia Felix 1 initiated that lodge 1841. Founder
Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (1841)
Ø Francis
Lyon Cohen (1862-1934), Rabbi, served as the first Jewish chaplain of the
British Army (1892-1904)
Ø William
Frank Hambly (1908-1972), Methodist minister, biblical scholar and college
principal. Deputy Chancellor (1968-71) of the University of Adelaide,
Ø Sir Redmond Barry KCMG (1813-1880) philanthropist
& Judge, Victoria’s first Solicitor-General later Justice of the Supreme
Court, founder Melbourne University and its first
Chancellor, Founder Victoria State Library. The judge who sentenced Ned Kelly. Acquitted rebels of Eureka Stockade.
Ø Sir William Clarke
(1831-1897) , landowner, stud-breeder and philanthropist, first Grand Master of
the Grand Lodge of Victoria (1889-1896) Initiated Tasmanian Union Lodge 356 on
11 Oct 1855
Ø Justice
Jeffrey Hart Bent (1781-1852), Judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature
in NSW. Lodge of Social and Military
Virtues No 227 IC, MM cert issued 1 Jan 1817
Ø Sir
James Cockle FRS FRAS FCP (1819-1895) lawyer and mathematician. First Chief
Justice of Queensland, Australia from 1863-79
Ø Sir Robert Richard
Torrens, GCMG (31 May 1814 – 31 August 1884), land
titles law reformer
was the third Premier of South Australia and a pioneer and author of simplified
system of transferring land. author of the Real Property Act 1857 (‘the Torrens Act’),
Ø William James Byrne
(1871-1951) 15th Grand Master UGLV 1939-1942 Established one of Melbourne’s most respected
law firms” Initiated Kent Lodge -
28 Feb 1907
Ø Justice Charles Stumm KC (1965?-1929) Queensland
Supreme Court Judge , Grand Master QLD 1922-1929
Ø Justice
Benjamin H Matthews, (1891-1974) Grand Master Queensland. , Judge Supreme Court
of Queensland
Ø Justice Hayden Erskine
Starke KCMG (1871 – 1958), High Court Judge Not to be confused with his son John Erskine
Starke (1913 - 1994) – both Judges. H.E. Starke “Between 1903
(when the High Court was created) and 1920, he appeared before the court 211
times, more than any other justice of the court”
Ø William Bede Dalley QC
(1831-1888) Barrister, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General. MLA MLC . An
interesting Catholic member of “the establishment” and quite an amazing man.
Australia's first privy councilor . Initiated Lodge of Australia 1858. A Sydney
Street is named after him
Ø Charles Edward de Boos
(1819-1900) journalist and police magistrate , mining warden and in 1881 presented with a gold medal 'as a
mark of esteem' by Chinese miners in the Braidwood district
Ø Oliver James Gillard Kt
(1906-1984) Supreme Court Judge. 21st Grand Master UGLV 1965-1968 Initiated Eros Lodge 7 April 1934
Ø Chief Justice Thomas
Slaney Poole (1873-1927) Grand Master South Australia GL
Ø Sir
Geoffrey Sandford Reed (1892-1970), Supreme Court Judge and foundation
director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO). Chaired
three Royal Commissions. (Another one conspiracy theorists will love).
Ø Sir Leslie James Herron
(1902-1973), Chief Justice,
Ø Sir Wilfred Kelsham
Fullagar KBE (1892-1961), High Court Judge
Ø William John Fookes (?-1925)
President Law Institute of Victoria
1902-03
Ø Justice Arthur Piper(1865-1936),
Judge Supreme Court South Australia, Grand Master
South Australia Freemasons
Ø Norman Thomas William
Allan (1909-1977), Police Commissioner
Ø Francis Erich (Frank)
Bischof (1904-1979), Police Commissioner QLD (I guess we need to claim the bad with the
good).
Ø Clifford Henry Book KC
(1895-1954) Judge , Crown Prosecutor 1926-1942 . 16th Grand Master UGLV . Initiated Melbourne University Lodge 11 Dec
1919
Ø Athol James Kennedy (?-?)
Corporate Lawyer, Magistrate. Initiated United Accountants Lodge 13 Dec 1927
Ø Francis Robert Nelson
(1906-1985) Supreme Court Judge
Ø Justice Keith John
Austin Asche AC QC (1928-) Senior Judge Family Court. President of RMIT & Chancellor
Deakin University, 30th Grand Master UGLV 1984 – 1986 Fourteenth Administrator of the Northern
Territory 1993-1997 (Initiated 30 Sept 1967
Lodge of Famonsel OR Initiated Sir Samuel
Walker Griffith Lodge 408QC ?)
Ø Justice
Howard E Zelling, CBE QC Grand Master South Australia 1972-1976
Ø Justice
Samuel J Jacobs, AO QC Grand Master South Australia 1979-1982
Ø Clive William Harris
(1918-) County Court Judge, Chairman Workers Compensation Board. 24 Grand
Master of UGLV. Initiated East Camberwell Lodge 19 Dec 1946
Ø Frederick Charles
Standish (1824-) District Grand Master Victoria EC (1861-?) . Assistance Commissioner Goldfields (1854-?) Chinese Protector (1858-?) , Chief Commissioner of Police for Victoria
(1858-1880) Chief Commissioner
during the hunt for the Kelly Gang . Credited with creating the Melbourne Cup
Horse Race.
Ø Paul Heinrich Matthias
Foelsche (1831-1914) Magistrate, Police Inspector, notable historic photographer
Ø Robert Cleghorn
MacKenzie, Goldfield Warden Victoria First President Maldon Hospital
Ø Eustace Beardoe Grundy
KC (1849-1938) Lawyer, Pro Grand Master South Australia , initiated Mt Gambier Lodge 1207 EC 1877
Ø Sir
George Coutts Ligertwood (1888-1967), judge, Chancellor of the University of
Adelaide (1961-66)
Ø Neville Leonard Colbran
AM (1928-2007) President Law Institute of Victoria 28th Grand Master UGLV 1980-1982
initiated Lodge of Precision 17 Dec 1949
Ø Arthur
Lang Campbell (1889-1949), Professor Of Law University of Adelaide.
Ø
Sir Bernard Sugerman KC (1904-1976) , Supreme Court Judge, KC, arbitrator
who confirmed standard 40 hour week. first editor (1927-46) of the Australian
Law Journal
Ø
Ø Justice
William Alfred Wearing (1816-1875), Supreme Court Judge & QC
Ø George
John Crawford (1812-1852), judge. first to wear a judicial wig in the SA colony
Ø John
McLerie (1809-1874), soldier and police officer. 1850 superintendent of Sydney
Police. By 1874, mainly because of his efforts, the police had gained public
confidence by controlling most bush ranging . Founder of the Society for the
Relief of Destitute Children
Ø Chief
Justice Harold Bayard Piper (1894-1953), judge and company director. Chaired
two royal commissions, one into betting the other on lotteries. Chairman Australian
Red Cross Society
Ø Honourable
Francis Stewart Boyce KC (1872-1940), barrister and politician,
Attorney-General. Temperance Advocate MLC
Ø Peter
Brett (1918-1975), Professor of Jurisprudence
Ø Justice
Richard Bullock Andrews QC (1823-1884), Supreme Court Judge and Attorney
General. MLA. Prominent SA Colonist. Sixth South Australian State Funeral.
Ø Edward
Castres Gwynne (1811-1888) Supreme Court Judge MLC
Ø Justice
Charles Edward Chubb QC (1845-1930), Supreme Court Judge, attorney-general,
crown prosecutor, and politician, MLA
Ø William
Henry Moore (1788?-1854) , Solicitor of the Crown
Ø Chief
Justice Sir Archibald Paull Burt KB (1810-1879), Chief Justice & Judge (Laid
Foundation Stone 1866 in WA) Western Australia's first chief justice
Ø Adolphus Appleroth
(1886-1952) wrote the famous jingle "I like aeroplane Jelly".
Initiated at Lodge Vaucluse 15 March 1928.
Ø Hugh Webster, once Prof
of Physics at Uni Qld and for a time Australia's Science Rep to the United
Nations.
Hugh worked with Rutherford and actually 'split the atom' shortly before him,
Rutherford got into print while Hugh cautiously checked and rechecked his
results
Ø John Hosking (1806-1882),
first Mayor of Sydney initiated Lodge of Australia
Ø Frederick Thomas
Hickford (1862-1929) Politician, Mayor of Brunswick , President Metropolitan Fire Brigade , Chairman Tramways Trust 9th Grand Master UGLV
Ø Sir Albert John Gould
(1847-1936), lawyer and politician. Minister for Justice under Sir Henry Parkes
(1889-91) and (Sir) George Reid (1894-98).
Ø Sir Ernest Fisk
(1886-1965) radio pioneer . Initiated into Freemasonry at St John Lodge No 579, UGLE on 28
April 1910
Ø Alfred
Carson OBE (1859-1944), journalist and social worker. founder of the Infant
Health Association, president of the Silver Chain District Nursing Association
for thirty years, and chairman of the Bush Nursing Society Alfred Carson Lodge
267 is named after him
Ø Herbert Brayley Collett
(1877-1947), librarian, soldier and politician
Ø David Isaac Freedman
(1874–1939) Politician & chaplain in the Australian Imperial Force, he
served on Gallipoli, in Egypt and France throughout which he wrote to the
family of every Jewish soldier he met. Two thousand mourners attended his
burial in Karrakatta cemetery
Ø Arthur Rudolph Bailey
(1863-1938), pharmacist was a driving force behind the Pure Foods Act
Ø G. E. Hudson (1862-1926,
Chairman of Tariff Board, Chief Surveyor Victoria
Ø A Blashki (?-1938) prominent
business man, founded the Jewish Aid society , “Past Grand Master Victorian
Grand Lodge”
Ø Charles Carty Salmon
(1860-1917), politician & Federationalist Speaker of the House , 8th Grand Master UGLV Initiated Talbot Lodge 12 Dec 1852
Ø James Ernest Ogden
(1868-1932), miner, unionist and politician
Ø Frederick John Ludowici
(1873-1969), businessman and conservationist
Ø John Paul Sennitt
(1851-1922), Local Councilor South Melbourne City Council, JP engineer and
ice-cream manufacturer Admiral Collingwood
Lodge
Ø Leslie George (Les) Cole
(1892-1978), magician,
Ø Sir Andrew Clarke
(1824-1902), military engineer, politician and public servant.
Surveyor-General. . Initiated Lodge Happiness
Ø Ernest Henry Farrar
(1879-1952), trade unionist and politician. MLC
Ø James Squire Farnell (1825-1888), politician
MLA, MLC , drover , bushman , Provincial Grand Master
of the Irish Constitution First GM GL of NSW .
Member Leinster
Marine Lodge .
Ø T.S. Burston(?-1928, 71 when he
died), three times Mayor of Toowoomba , Past Grand Master
Ø John
Tuthill Bagot (1819- 1870 ) MP , Solicitor-General (1857), Commissioner of
Crown. Lands (1860/61). Provincial Grand Master Irish Constitution, , member
first Parliament of 1857
Ø William Dixon Campbell
Denovan (1829-1906), miner, reformer, politician and public servant
Ø Hubert
Leslie Primrose (1880-1942), solicitor and politician, member of New Guard, “On
19 March 1932, after another senior New Guardsman, Francis de Groot, had
unofficially 'opened' the southern approaches of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, on
the northern side, Primrose, as North Sydney's mayor, ceremoniously slashed
another ribbon”
Ø Major Dr John Connell AM
(1913- ) , engineer business man, founder of Aurecon, Melbourne City Train
Loop, Grand Master UGLV 1986-89
Ø Sir James Anderson
Murdoch CMG (1867-1939), retail trader, politician and philanthropist. MLC
Ø Sir William John Macleay
(1820-1891), pastoralist, politician and patron of science
Ø Sir George Eccles Kelso
King (1853-1943), businessman, initiated on 7 June 1878 in the Prince of Wales
Lodge, Sydney, influential in establishing the Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark
Master Masons , became Grand Mark Master Mason of New South Wales (1892-95).
Ø Sir William Lawrence
Baillieu (1859-1936), financier and politician. On the death of Prince Bailieu
“he told his nephew that 'everything the Baillieu family has they owe to your
Uncle Willie'; and one-fifth of his estate of almost £500,000 was left to the
University of Melbourne Library 'in memory of William Lawrence Baillieu'.
Ø Sir Clive Latham Baillieu
(1889–1967) , K.B. financier and politician,
Ø Sir John (Jack) Frew (1912–1985) OBE.
Medicine, Dr on Burma-Thailand Railway ,
teacher Melbourne University, “`one of the last giants in general medicine’ “
Ø Francis Ormond (1829-1889)
philanthropist, politician, grazier, founded RMIT (then known as Working Men’s College),
Ormond Hall at the Victorian Institute of the Blind, Ormond College at
Melbourne University are named after him.
Ø George Edwin Emery CMG (1859-1937), 5th Grand Master UGLV (1907-1909) Commissioner of both Savings Bank and Post
Office Savings Bank, becoming General Manager when both merged , one of the founders of Rotary in Victoria Initiated Lodge if Australasia 20 Dec 1894
Ø Sir John W Hackett KCMG (1848-1916), politician, principal
proprietor of the West Australian Newspaper Grand
Master of Grand
Lodge of Freemasons of Western Australia in 1901-03
Ø Joseph Henry Abbott (1830-1904),
businessman, civic leader and politician. Member of the Royal Commission on Law
reform which began in 1897
Ø Sir Manuel Hornibrook (1893-1970),, eminent civic
construction engineer, Prince Albert Lodge No 248 UGLQLD
Ø Sir Henry Weedon
(1859-1921) , philanthropist and politician , Melbourne’s Lord Mayor 1905-1908 Chair Tramways Trust Initiated Duke of
Manchester Lodge 13 March 1885
Ø William Warren Kerr CMC CBE (1864-1949) 13th
Grand Master UGLV 1932-1935 . President of both Victorian and
Australian Chamber of Commerce , President State Bank Victoria founding
council-member of Swinburne Technical College 1908 , Mayor
of Kew 1907 . Initiated Austral-Temple Lodge 11
Nov 1908
Ø Alexander Corrie (1886 -1941) One of founders of Launceston Stock
Exchange & first President and one of the founders of the Brisbane Stock
Exchange, first QLD Grand Master
Ø Richard Arnold Rowe
(1890-1960) 18th Grand Master of UGLV 1947-1951 . Chairman Melbourne Stock Exchange and also
Associated Stock Exchangers of Australia . President RACV Initiated Rechab Lodge 14 May 1917
Ø Edward Hargraves (1816–1891)
– discoverer of gold in Australia
Ø Sir William Brunton KCB (1867-1938) Lord
Mayor Melbourne 1923-1926 Foundation Chairman of Freemasons Hospital. Initiated
Victorian Naval and Military Lodge 1905
Ø Phillip Cohen (1852-?)
Chief Clerk Dept of Mines Victoria for 22 years . Initiated Duke of Sussex Oct 1878 .
Ø William Henry(?-1903),
owned the “South Melbourne Citizen’s Newspaper”
Ø Sir Thomas Hiley, QLD Treasurer,
Prince Albert Lodge No 248 UGLQLD
Ø Angell Ellis (1831–1916),
foundation Editor “Victorian Craftsman”
Ø Frank Ernest Pettifer
(1873-1946) 17th Grand Master of UGLV 1945-1946 President Braille Writers Association Initiated Austral-Temple Lodge 8 Dec 1920
Ø William Player Bice
(1855-1933) 11th Grand Master UGLV 1926-1927 . Initiated Earl of Carnarvon 26 Oct 1886 Of particular note for effectively banning
public wearing of regalia and putting temples “off limits to the general
community” . His name is on Gipps
St Foundation Stone .
Ø Charles Roger Darvall
CBE Kt(1906-) State Electricity Commissioner 22 Grand Master UGLV 1968-1970 . Initiated Wimmera Lodge 20 Oct 1944
Ø Sydney Lance Townsend
Kt. (1912-1983) Dean of Medicine Melbourne University . 23rd Grand Master UGLV 1970-1972 Initiated 24
Sept 1948 Philatelic Lodge
Ø James W Jackobs,
Secretary of the Royal Freemasons Homes 1947-1967
Ø Christopher Robert
Barnes James (1899-) 26th Grand Master UGLV Initiated 7 Feb 1945 into City of
Kew Lodge
Ø Francis
Arthur Macarthur-Onslow (1879-1938), three times Mayor of Camden , Queen's Medal
with five clasps.
Ø Reginald Edward Gregory
MBE(1911 -) honorary Secretary Girl Guide Association, 27th Grand Master UGLV
1978-1980
Ø Henry John Nathan
(1927-) 29th Grand Master UGLV 1982-1984 Initiated Lodge Fraternal 1948
Ø John William Connell OA
(1913-) 31st Grand Master UGLV 1986-1989 Initiated 27 Sept 1946 Francis Ormond
Lodge
Ø George Brunswick Smythe,
Magistrate, first Master of a Lodge in Victoria, Australia Felix 1839
Ø John Stephenson, “Father
of Freemasonry..” (in Victoria), Assistant Editor ‘Port Philip Gazette”
Ø Henry
Melville (1799-1873), journalist, publisher and author
Ø William Herbert Green
OBE (1878-1968) businessman, philanthropist, politician Mayor of Townsville, Foundation
District Grand Master of the District Grand Lodge of North Queensland
Ø David
Davies(1862-?), politician, owner “South Wales Daily Post”
Ø William
Edwin Black, ( ? - 1884) assisted Colon Light layout Adelaide Streets . “To him (Black) belongs the distinction of
being the father of the first white boy born in South Australia.”
Ø Prof George Ingle Finch, MBE, DSc, (1888-1970), chemist and mountaineer, Fellow of the Royal
Society Initiated, aged 40 Hampstead L. No. 2408 EC
Ø Frederick Thomas Wimble (1846-1936) ,
politician, ink-maker,
type-founder and printers’ furnisher,
founding editor Cairns Post, Lodge Austral, No. 194, UGLNSW Wimble
Street Brinsmead Cairns is named after him
Ø Ray
Campbell, National Commodore of the Australian Volunteer Coastguard, initiated
Lodge of Confidence in 1977
Ø Reginald
John Burchell (1913-1922) MC, politician
Ø Anthony
Raymond 'Tony' Lauer, APM, JP (1935- ) was the Commissioner of the New South
Wales Police from 1991 until 1996.
Ø Bruce
Skeggs OAM, KSJ (1932 -2013) Journalist, trotting commentator, publisher, Mayor,
state MP
Ø Francis
(Frank) Clune OBE (1893-1971), author
Ø Henry
Condell (1797 - 1871) First mayor of Melbourne.
Ø Harold Coates OBE
(1917-2002) NSW politician Grand Master NSW
Ø Maurice
Herman Kellerman OBE (1902-2000) NSW Board of Jewish Education Initiated Lodge Apsley
Ø Robert
Dunbar Scott, Surveyor (? – 7 March 1898 Laid
out the township of Camperdown
Ø Gordon Lewis, Radio
Ø David Tree and “Sam the koala”
became an international iconic image of the Black Saturday 2009 fires in
Victoria which were Australia’s worst bushfire disaster. David was photographed
in his CFA uniform holding Sam’s “hand” and giving her water from a water
bottle. The photo (and a video) were taken about a week before Black Saturday while
trying to get the Delburn Fire complex under control. That fire burnt 60000
hectares and destroyed thirty homes and was still burning out of control a week
later when the Kinglake fire complex started.”
Ø Charles Richmond John
Glover (1870-1936) philanthropist, director or governor of several organizations including
Municipal Tramways Trust, Bank of Adelaide, Adelaide Children’s Hospital,
National Parks Board and St John's Ambulance Association. Elected Mayor of Adelaide
(the first to be called Lord Mayor) in 1917, Grand Secretary
in the early 1900s, Glover Avenue in Adelaide is named after him.
Ø Mr.
John Daniels, (1818 - 1887). Colonist; sergeant in a regiment in charge of
convicts at Norfolk Island; a prominent Freemason
Ø Bill
Mason (1972- ? ) is not a Freemason but
a famous jewel thief, we add him here to amuse ourselves with people who
reproduce our list from lodgdevotion.net and represent it as their own. Bill
was Initiated into our list on 12 March 2015
Ø W
Oldham (1811- 1883) , Magistrate , founder
of Kapunda , “Protector of Aborigines, and in that capacity compiled a grammar of the
Adelaide aboriginal tongue.” , Organized
the military volunteer Mines Rifle Company,
Ø Charles
William Ferdinand, (generally recorded as “C.W.F.” ) Trapmann, (1838-1885)
brewer, Mayor of Hindmarsh , Major in
VMF.
Ø William
Lawes Ware (1847 – 1921(?) ) , Auditor for the City of Adelaide 1878 -1885(?)
Ø William
Fiveash (? – 1892) , connected with J. E. Seppelt (father of B. Seppelt), of
Seppeltsfield, and through that connection was instrumental in building up one
of the largest wine businesses in the Australias. Founder of Irish Const in
Colony and central in construction of Alfred Masonic Hall Waymouth-street,
Chairman of their Trustees for the same
Ø James
Elliott ( ? - 1883) J.P., co-founder, editor and part proprietor of the Kapunda
Herald. Chairman of the Hospital Board, Vice-President of the Institute, member
of the School Board of Advice, the Horticultural Society, and Dutton Park
Committees, and Director of the Marble and Building Company, all of Kapunda. Founder
of Dutton Park and the Kapunda Hospital;
Ø James
Scandrett ( - 1903) co-founder Kapunda Herald
Ø Henry
Edward Downer (1836–1905) , member of parliament and Attorney General Deputy
District Grand Master under the English constitution ,
Ø Fred
Johns, (1868-1932), Biographer , In 1906 he published his Johns's Notable
Australians
Ø William
Henry Gray (1808-1896) , pioneer, a founder of the Reedbeds Mounted Rifle
Company (1859). In 1889 WH Gray, gave large area of land west of Adelaide (now
Adelaide Airport) to the Grand Lodge of South Australia for Masonic Homes. These
were not built, the land being purchased by the Government about 1906 for the
Glenelg Sewerage Treatment Works, but the capital sum formed the foundation sum
of the present day Masonic Homes. Gray Street in the West End of Adelaide named
after him, he also owned land in the Darwin NT region where a suburb is named
for him.
Ø Henry
Richard Mildred (1795-1877). Lawyer, politician, Pro Grand Master EC in South
Australia . In 1851 he presided as ProGM at the stone laying of the
German-British Hospital in Carrington Street. Member of the House of Assembly
1857-1865 and a Legislative Councilor 1866-1873. Mildred Road in North Adelaide
was named after him
Ø Sir
Lewis Cohen (1849-1933) many times Mayor and Lord Mayor Adelaide. Sir Lewis
Cohen Avenue, Adelaide, named after him,
Ø Charles
Dyte (?- 1893) Jew, involved in Eureka Stockade, MP & Councilor and Mayor
of Ballarat East
Ø Charles
Kenworthy , intermediary for the
Americans taken at the storming of the Eureka Stockade. He helped organise the
release of American miner Charles Ferguson.
Ø Emmanuel
Steinfeld *(1828-1893), Mayor Ballarat East Council (1866-69)
Ø Robert
Gouger (1802-1846) , “First Colonial Secretary” (South Australia) was one of
the founders of South Australia” Gouger St Adelaide is named after him
Ø Francis
Lochée (1811-1893) JP, lawyer, editor and banker. “Governor John Hutt became a
close friend and persuaded him to become the first Freemason initiated in the
colony”. Proprietor, editor and publisher – the Inquirer “Mr. Lochée shared in
the year 1845, the distinction of being the first Masons initiated in Western
Australia.”
Ø Sir
John Morphett, (1809–1892) South Australian Pioneer, Politician Morphett St
Adelaide is named after him.
Ø Norman
Selfe (1839–1911) engineer, naval architect, inventor, urban planner and
outspoken advocate of technical education, the Sydney suburb of Normanhurst was
named for him
Ø Thomas
Gilbert (1789-1873) , pioneer, First South Australian Post Master, initiated Lodge
of Friendship in 1834. Gilbert Street in Adelaide and the River Gilbert were
named after him
Ø Alexander
Boden AO (1913-1993) , industrialist, author, philanthropist. Fellow Australian
Academy of Science
Ø Sir
Herbert Lethington Maitland (1868–1923) surgeon and sportsman.
Ø John
Samuel Shearston (1853-1916), seamen's missionary
Ø Rev
Solomon Mark Solomon (?-1941), Scouting, The Victorian Zionist League
(conspiracy theorists will love that one).
Ø Octavius
Charles Beale (1850-1930) , piano manufacturer and a philanthropist .
Ø Frederick
William Neitenstein (1850-1921), prison reformer
Ø Leonard
Burnie (Len) Harris (1890-1964), newspaper publisher and printer
Ø Frederick
John Prichard (1851-1920), journalist
Ø Lionel
George Logue (1880-1953), speech therapist – made Famous by the movie – the
Kings Speech. Initiation St George's Lodge WA on 18 September 1908
Ø William
Ramsay Young DCM, MM (1894-1965), soldier and butcher.
Ø Walter
Albert Selle CBE (1883-1968), schoolteacher and university registrar
Ø Michel
Francois (Frank) Albert (1874-1962) , music publisher, radio station &
cinema owner. Director of the Australian Broadcasting Co. Ltd. Founding
secretary in 1927-35 and president in 1936-37 of the Geographical Society of
New South Wales. early member of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia and a founder
and commodore of the Motor Boat Club (Royal Motor Yacht Club)
Ø Sir
Walter Thomas Merriman (1882-1972), sheep breeder
Ø James
Richard Collins CBE (1869-1934) secretary to the Treasury and commissioner of
war. His signature appeared on paper money issued in Australia 1910 to 1926.
represented Australia on the Pacific Cable Board (1926-30), on Reparations
Conference at The Hague (1929-30) and Lausanne (1932) and as leader of the
delegation to the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1931
Ø George
Henry Thorn (1840-1905), politician MLC. managed his father's (George
Thorn (1806-1876), soldier, businessman and politician ) properties on the
Darling Downs.
Ø John
Macintosh (1821-1911) , ironmonger, alderman, magistrate, and politician. MLA
MLC
Ø Arthur
Ashworth Aspinall (1846-1929), Presbyterian clergyman and school principal
Ø William
Phelan (1915-1973), businessman and politician. Mayor of Maryborough 1954/5
Ø James
H Porter (-1940) , Fremantle printer
Ø Georg
Heinrich Friedrich Ulrich (1830-1900), (aka George Henry Frederick aka George
Favorke) geologist and mineralogist. Goldminer. Fellow Geological Society of
London, original member of the Australian Institute of Mining Engineers Mining
Lecturer University of Melbourne.
Ø Edmund
Tom Webb (1830-1899), storekeeper and politician. MLA MLC . Bathurst Major.
Methodist Lay Leader. Orangeman Involved
in 1893 case of Masonic Building
Ø Sir
William John Sowden (1858-1943), journalist and newspaper editor. First SA State
President of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia Founded
4 lodges, Master of three
Ø Asdruebal
James Keast CBE (1892-1980), mining engineer & company director
Ø Sir
Raymond Douglas (Bob) Huish CBE (1898-1970), ex-servicemen's leader and
businessman. President Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of
Australia
Ø Arthur
John Carter (1847-1917), businessman, Vice-Consul for Sweden and Norway,
consular agent for France in 1902 and consul for Norway in 1906. Received the
Norwegian Order of St Olav. Five terms as President Brisbane Chamber of
Commerce, MLC, leader of the Federation League
Ø Kenneth
Hunter Laidlaw (1887-1981), union official. Founded the Union, The United Bank
Officers’ Association of Queensland
Ø Ernest
Lund Mitchell (1876-1959), photographer and farmer, official photographer to
the governor of Western Australia. Initiated 1900 Lodge Cambrian No.10
Ø Francesco
Sceusa (1851-1919), socialist, foundation member of the (Royal) Geographical
Society of Australasia (1883), President Italian Working Men's Benefit Society,
foundedthe first Italian newspaper in Australia (1885), the Italo-Australiano,
A founder of the Australian Socialist League in 1890
Ø Avrum
(Tim) Einihovici (1895-1988), medical practitioner and Esperantist
Ø Thomas
Worsnop (1821-1898), town clerk and author. Wrote History of the City of
Adelaide (1878); 'The Historical Record of South Australia 1512-1854'. In 1897
he published The Prehistoric Arts, Manufactures, Works, Weapons, etc., of the
Aborigines of Australia .Ffellow of the Royal Historical Society, London
Ø Hugo
Flecker (1884-1957), medical practitioner, radiotherapist, toxicologist and
natural historian. Flecker Botanic Gardens, Cairns, are named in his honour.
Ø John
Maxwell (Max) Freeland DFC AM (1920-1983), air force officer and Professor of
Architecture. On 1 Sept 1945 led a fly-past at Melbourne celebrations to mark
the end of WW2 Senior Lecturer Royal Melbourne Technical College. Chair of
Architecture University of New South Wales. Initiated Erskine Murray Lodge
Melbourne 1954
Ø Harry
Samuel Taylor (1873-1932), newspaper owner
Ø George
Thornton (1819-1901), merchant, magistrate, and politician. Mayor of Sydney,
obelisk (Thornton's 'scent bottle') in Hyde Park monument to him. MLA MLC. Founding
director and chairman City Bank of Sydney, a trustee of the Savings Bank of New
South Wales, chairman of the Mutual Insurance Society of Victoria. A founding
councilor of the NSE Aborigines Protection Association in 1880, officially
appointed protector of the Aborigines. Vice-commodore of the Sydney Yacht Club
1859, founding member of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron in 1862, founding
president of the Sydney Rowing Club and of the New South Wales Rowing
Association Irish Provincial Grand Master 1857-67 Leinster Marine Lodge of
Australia No. 266
Ø Karl
Rawdon von Stieglitz OBE (1893-1967) surveyor, pastoralist and historian and
author Official Historian to the Tasmanian Government
Ø Leslie
Cecil Joshua Nott OBE (1895-1963), comptroller-general of prisons
Ø Robert
Ross Haverfield (1819-1889), grazier, newspaper proprietor and editor. With A.
M. Lloyd he produced an issue of the Bendigo Advertiser and Sandhurst
Commercial Circular, the first newspaper published on the Victorian goldfield,
appointed (1861) secretary to the Royal Commission on Burke and Wills
Ø Charles
Tucker (1857-1928), customs agent, politician and pastoralist, MLA. After South
Australia's longest criminal trial (97 witnesses, about 8000 exhibits over 31
days) in 1907, as customs agent for John Martin & Co. Ltd, Tucker was found
guilty of having defrauded the Customs Department during the 1890s of duties
payable on goods imported by the firm
Ø George
Mackaness OBE (1882-1968) , educationist, author and bibliophile, major figure
in Sydney literary circles. notable contributions in three fields— English teacher,
historian who made available quantities of documentary material, bibliophile
who made the collecting of Australiana popular
Ø Charles
Edward Jeanneret (1834-1898), steamboat-owner and politician. MLA . His Hints
for the Preservation of the Teeth (1830) was the first dental publication in
Sydney. Mayor Hunter's Hill three times.
Ø James
Graham (1819-1898), merchant, agent and politician. Company Director, MLC. Consul
for Sardinia in 1859 and later for United Italy. Early member of the Melbourne
Club and its president in 1865, a founding member of the Old Colonists'
Association. One of Victoria's most prominent men of commerce.
Ø Eric
Campbell DSO (1893-1970), solicitor and leader of the New Guard
Ø Otto
Georg Hermann Dittmar Krome (1863-1917), educationist, In 1894 Krome and Thomas
Palmer leased Melbourne Teachers' College, Carlton, from the Education
Department and opened University High School, a private, co-educational
secondary school which quickly became one of the largest and most successful in
Melbourne. Headmaster of Wesley College (1897), Methodist Ladies' College, Kew
(1906)
Ø David
John McClelland (1873-1962), engineer, S.E.C. commissioner (1932-41), Chaired
Royal Commission on State Rivers (1936). Member of a Royal commission into
Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission (1940-41). Supervised construction of new
stands in the 1930s and 1950s at the MCG and regrading the ground for the 1956
Olympic Games
Ø Alexander
Bain Moncrieff CMG (1845-1928), engineer, chairman Supply and Tender Board
(1895-99); President Institution of Surveyors in 1901; Chairman Municipal
Tramways Trust in 1907-22; and, from 1909, railways commissioner . Elected to
the British Institution of Civil Engineers, London, in 1888 and the American
Society of Civil Engineers in 1894
Ø James
Morgan (1816-1878), MLA newspaper proprietor and politician
Ø Charles
Nettleton (1826-1902), photographer. Systematically recorded Melbourne's growth
from a small town to a metropolis, photographed the first Australian steam
train when the private Melbourne-Sandridge (Port Melbourne) line was opened 1854.
Police photographer for 25+ years and photographed Ned Kelly Official Royal
photographer in Australia. member of the Collingwood Lodge
Ø Horace
Bohmer Newman (1889-1968), importer and manufacturing agent, Jewish Community
leader Zionist
Ø Alexander
Morton (1854-1907), museum director and naturalist
Ø Charles
Ferris Lewis (1828-1900), 'the Father of St Arnaud'
Ø Robert
Adam Ritchie (1836-1891), manufacturer and politician, MLA
Ø John
William Israel (1850-1926), Auditor General of Tasmania, first
Commonwealth Auditor General. 1897 First President of the Board of Benevolence
Tasmania. Founding President of the Civil Service Association in 1897.
Ø Christy
Kosmas Freeleagus (1889-1957), businessman and honorary consul to Greece. Greek
Community Leader, Silver Cross of George I (1941), gold cross 1951
Ø Alfred
Harris (1870-1944), journalist, newspaper owner and editor , Jewish
anti-Zionist, edited and printed first issue of the Hebrew Standard of Australasia:
Ø Alfred
Edward Gerard (1877-1950), merchant and Aboriginal welfare worker, Methodist
Layman.
Ø George
Samuel Hutton (1848-1913), local councilor, Initiated 1871, 1889 Provincial
Grand Master of Queensland under the Irish constitution. The first building of
the Freemasons' Homes at
Sandgate was named Hutton. Mayor Hamilton Town Council in 1 1905-06 and
foundation member of the Brisbane Club.
Ø Simon Bouda (??-), journalist and
television
Ø Thomas
Walker Fowler (1859-1928), civil engineer, surveying & civil engineering
lecturer, Royal Commission member, engineer-in-chief of Tasmania and permanent
head of the Public Works Department, Chairman of the Municipal Surveyors' Board
of Victoria
Ø Malcolm
John Leggoe Uren (1900-1973) OBE, journalist & intelligence officer
Ø Abraham
(‘Izzy’) Orloff (1891-1981), photographer Many photos of Perth and Fremantle in
the early 20th century were taken by him.
Ø Josiah
Eustace Dodd (1856-1952), organ builder The organs at St Mary's Cathedral,
Perth (1910), St John's Cathedral, Napier, New Zealand (1910), Patterson Street
Methodist Church, Launceston, Tasmania (1912), St Carthage's Cathedral,
Lismore, New South Wales (1912) and St Joseph's Church, Malvern, Victoria
(1917) were good examples of his larger instruments.
Ø William
Berry (1857-1928), marine engineer, Methodist lay leader, trade union official.
Chairman for 30 years of Victorian Trotting Association. President of the Ascot
Racing Club President of the Ascot Racing Club, in 1948 the association became
the Melbourne Racing Club and he was its chairman in 1949-50. He also served
for 19 years as a trustee of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club, which controlled
the Caulfield Racecourse Reserve.
Ø John
Bryant Stokes (1925-1979), public servant, first President Western Districts
Rugby Union Football Club Initiated in 1951 into Lodge Canberra
Ø William
Francis Waters (1897-1968), public servant , bushwalker, Boy Scout leader,
holder of Silver Wolf
Ø William
Lushington Goodwin (1798?-1862), journalist, master of the convict transport
Kains, politician, newspaper owner and editor.
Ø Othman
Frank Blakey (1897-1952), engineer, leader in the application of techniques
such as welded steel framework and reinforced concrete, President Institution
of Engineers (1945)
Ø Edward
Campbell CBE (1883-1944), businessman and Melbourne Lord Mayor (1937), Philanthropist.
Foundation member of the Wesley Collegians' Lodge and of the Victorian
Engineers' Lodge No. 411. Life governor of the Royal Victorian Institute for
the Blind
Ø Henry
Deane Walsh (1853-1921), engineer, St John Ambulance Association Treasurer
Ø Robert
George Cameron (1886-1960), educationist
Ø Charles
William Ferdinand “C W F” Trapmann, (1849?-1885) brewer & bottler. Three
times Mayor of Hindmarsh
Ø Bertie
Richard (Bert) Milliner (1911-1975), politician and trade unionist, MLC
Ø Henry
Macdermott (1798-1848). Wine and Spirit Merchant Mayor of Sydney 1845. Radical
Political Activist.
Ø George
Fuller Godfrey CBE (1904-1989), journalist and union official President of the
Australian Journalists Association & witness to Japanese Sub attack in
Sydney Harbour ?
Ø William
Eustace Maclean JP (1884-1964), engineer, chief of the Hydro Electric
Commission, Tasmania(1933)
Ø Thomas
Gilbert Henry Jones (1895-1970) , Professor
of Chemistry. President (1932-33) Royal Society of Queensland, Fellow of the
R.A.C.I., President (1938-39) of its Queensland branch and national president
(1938-39). Chair of chemistry at the University of Queensland. Grand Master
1954-7 Grand Lodge of Queensland
Ø William
George Inglis Hayman (1897-1968), electrical engineer and educationist Haymen
Road in Perth is named after him.
Ø Thomas
Ross (1866-1936), glassmaker. Mayor of Waterloo.
Ø Watkin
Wynne (1844-1921), newspaper manager. Imported one of the first motor cars to
Australia. Alderman (1896-1901) on Waverley Municipal Council, Mayor of Waverley
Municipal Council, in 1898-99. A founder in 1888 of the United Grand Lodge of
New South Wales. General Manager Daily
Telegraph. Initiated 1881 at Lodge of Australia No 3
Ø Wall H
Tew (1915-2007), OBE, JP who was the last Shire President, first Mayor of Knox
(position held four times). Wally was involved in the procurement of the Knox
Historical Society building, Ambleside Homestead, the inception of the Knox War
Memorial and the establishment of Amaroo Hostel; Wally Tew reserve in Ferntree
Gully Melbourne is named after him
Ø Frederick
William Bullock (1851 –1931) Auctioneer, Real Estate Agent, Mayor of Adelaide
(1891-92) An early South Australian pioneer
Ø John Lazar (1801/3?-1879),
actor. Mayor of Adelaide from 1855 to 1858. A portrait in oils is in the Freemasons' Hall, Adelaide. District Grand Master. Later town clerk of
Hokitika NZ
Ø Nicholas
George Sparks (1857-1930), fire brigade office, Kings Police Medal
Ø John
Michael Finnerty (1853-1913), mining warden and magistrate
Ø John
Thomas Smith (1816-1879), publican, philanthropist, politician and landowner.
Won Bourke Ward on the first Melbourne Town Council in Dec 1842 remaining a
councilor for the rest of his life, seven times Mayor of Melbourne between 1851
and 1864. Built the Queen's Theatre Royal, Melbourne's first theatre. MLA, MLC.
First Freemason initiated in Victoria Smith St Collingwood is named in his
honour Third Master of Australia Felix,
Victoria’s Oldest Lodge, Initiated there 12th April 1840
Ø Edwin
Buckland (1871-1959), Huntly Shire Councilor 'the best known personality in
Bendigo and the North'
Ø James
Shaw (1846-1910), Builder & investor, First Mayor of Coolgardie, Mayor of
Adelaide (1888)
Ø Alexander
Kennedy Smith (1824-1881), engineer. He built gas works at Ballarat,
Castlemaine, Sandhurst, Melbourne and Newcastle. Provided plans and
specifications for many gas supplies in Australia and abroad, including Sydney,
Shanghai, Yokohama, Auckland, Dunedin and Nelson, and for Victorian towns such
as Portland, Warrnambool and Stawell. Designed the Sydney and the Coliban
water-supplies and was engineer to the South Yarra Waterworks in the 1860s.
Major in the Victorian Volunteer Artillery Regiment. Melbourne City Council and
was mayor in 1875-76. MLA Provincial Grand Master SC
Ø Robert
Campbell junior (1789-1851), merchant, entrepreneur and pastoralist. President
Bank of New South Wales. (1843-51) Initiated in Sydney 6 Jan 1823 Australian
Social Lodge No. 260, Irish Constitution
Ø Robert
Campbell (1804-1859) MLA, MLC “five or six thousand colonists” attended his
funeral in Parramatta, first Provincial Grand Master under the Scottish
Constitution in Australia (1856). anti-transportationist
Ø Anton
William Rutherford Vroland (1874-1957), educationist, text book author.
President Victorian State Schools Teachers' Union, helped form Victorian
Teachers' Union
Ø David
Allen (1780-1852), Deputy Commissary General, arrived Sydney 1813. A man of
poor reputation.
Ø Cpl
William Blizzard (c1784-1832) [spelt as Blizard in the Lodge register] was
master of No. 218 as from the 24th December, 1820. He enlisted in 1793 at St
Vincent in the West Indies as a 10 year old boy drummer. He remained in NSW
having taken his discharge. He was also the foundation Outer Guard of the Lodge
of Australia No. 820, English Constitution, on the 6th April, 1829.
Ø Sebastian Hodge, ("Bass”
HODGE) (1833-1889) Bandsman (11th
Regiment), clarinettist, saxophone player, publican Born 1833 In
Australia with 11th Regiment, January 1846-September 1857 Returned to Sydney,
January 1862 Died Sydney, 21 April 1889, aged 56 (Not to be confused with
Sebastian "Bass" Hodge of Bathurst (a cousin)) United Service Lodge
No 24 NSW
Ø Frank (Francis) Howson (1817- 1869) Baritone
vocalist, conductor, arranger. Born London, arrived Hobart, 28 January
1842 (per Sydney, from the
Downs, 3 October 1841) Departed Newcastle, 10 April 1866 (per Japan, for San Francisco) Died Omaha,
USA, 16 September 1869, aged 52
Ø James
Brackenrig (1758?-1844?) Foundation Senior Deacon at The Australian Social
Lodge No. 260 , Private in the NSW Corps who arrived in the colony aboard the
ship 'Neptune' (second Fleet).
Ø William
Chapman (1820-1887), musician and composer
Ø George Bennett (c1817-1854) Singer, pianist, organist, concert presenter, composer. Born
UK c.1817 Arrived Adelaide, South Australia 1839 Died Adelaide, 22 September
1854, aged 37
Ø Capt
John Piper (1773-1851) Norfolk Island
commander 1804-1810 Point Piper is named for him , arrived in Sydney in 1792
& one of the wealthiest individuals in early Sydney.
Suggested names needing further research.
Ø Possible;
William Hance, Organist, organ keeper, organ builder , Arrived Hobart, 26
September 1823 (per Mariner) Died Hobart, 10 October 1842, aged 50 In 1832 he
was building an organ for one of Hobart's Masonic lodges, the first documented
instance of an organ being built in the colonies
Ø James
Stuart [Stewart], Foundation Senior Warden at The Australian Social Lodge No.
260
Ø Henry (de) Burgh, (1841-1869?) Amateur
vocalist, pianist, composer
Ø Brother
Drummond as Senior Tyler
Ø Brother
Hetherington as Junior Tyler
Ø Mr St
John Caws, first secretary of the Musical Society of Victoria, of which he was
one of the founders Lodge Judah # 20
Ø Samuel
KAYE, Singing-master, professor of music, organist, music seller, organ
builder, arranger, music publisher, Active Melbourne, by 1860
Departed Melbourne, after July 1876. Music for the Masonic Order, being
Ritual No 1 selected and arranged by Bro. Samuel Kaye
Ø Mathew
Bacon (?-?) The Foundation Master NSW . Officer of the 48th [Northamptonshire]
Regiment of Foot, Initiated under Irish travel warrant, No.218
Ø William
Hague (1864-1924), storekeeper and politician MLA Chair Angaston District
Council
Ø Lewis
Ormaby Martin (1870-1944) Lawyer & MLA, Mayor of Taree, legal advisor to
Manning Shire Council, WM of Lodge Manning 1901-2
Ø William
Samuel Foxall (c1848- 1914) Goulburn business man
Ø Edward
Knight (?-1875) Chief Magistrate, Foundation Councilor and Mayor City of
Geelong.
Ø Rev
Dr John Edward Bromby (1809-1889), clergyman, schoolmaster and public lecturer,
woman’s rights
Ø Captain
Philip Leigh ( c1813 - 1886) One of the earliest initiates at Australia Felix
EC, Master of the same in 1851 took part in the Masonic demonstrations at the
opening of Prince's Bridge Melbourne
Ø Abraham
Abrahams (1813-1892) Painter & prominent philanthropist
Ø William
James (1854-1897), Bendigo Councilor.
Ø Judge
Hugh Montgomerie Hamilton (1854-1930), Past Grandmaster of the united Grand
Lodge of New South Wales, one of the first to bring golf clubs into New South
Wales, and, when he took part In the Murchison expedition in the New Zealand
Alps. As a result of the part he played in that expedition, the second highest
mountain in Australasia, Mount Hamilton, near Mount Cook, is named after him.
Ø Possible
Major John Hamilton, D.S.O., B.E., A.M.I.C.E.
Ø W R
Fitzsimmons (c1871-1926) MLA & President Kuring-gai Shire Council
Ø David
Mack (1859-1925) well known Courser and Judge of Coursing. PM of St. Andrew's
and St. George's Lodges.
Ø H. L.
Binney, JP (-1925), Member Mobilong Council, President Murray River Rowing
Club, Vice President South Australian Rowing Association, “He accompanied the
Olympic eight to Paris at his- own expense, and rendered valuable assistance to
the crew when it was in training.”
Ø Possible;
H N Edwards (c1832-1915) Twenty Years a councilor of Port Melbourne, all flags
at half mast on his death in Port Melbourne
Ø A J
White, JP (?-1939) President Glouster Council,
Ø Thomas
Bragg (1856-1921) innovative farmer & Dubbo Pioneer.
Ø John
Allan Edmonds (1884-1949) President Boorowa Council
Ø Colonel
D D Dawson VD (1876-1935) promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the A.I.F. in 1916
and given command of the 25th Battalion on Gallipoli , Anglican Church Leader member of the General Synod of Australia
& elected the first district president for Central Queensland of the
Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial league of Australia
Ø Arthur
George Stokes, (c1861- 1936) Hobart Councilor
Ø John
Abbot (c1968-1936), President Dandenong Shire Council, member 1910-22.
Foundation member Australian Natives Association. “Brought electric light to
Dandenong”
Ø Arthur
King (1908) prominent musician & conductor on the Goldfields. Kalgoorie
Masonic Lodge 24
Ø Dr. Octavus
Weld. B.A., M.D (c1932-1901) Mt Barker Pioneer Initiated Canada 1858
Suggested names needing further
evidence, without further evidence currently being found.
Ø George
Furphy. Industry
Ø Alan Davidson , cricket
Ø Sir
Eric Pearce (1905-1997), broadcaster, entertainer
Ø Edward
Henty 1810–1878 , pioneer farmer
Ø Sir
Henry Gullett (1878-1940), farmer, journalist, historian and Cabinet Minister
politician
Ø Air
Vice Marshal Sir George Jones (1896 –1992) KBE, CB, DFC RAAF
Ø Sid Patterson 1927- 1999) cycling
Ø Brigadier
Sir George Knox KBE, CMG, ED, (1885- 1960) MLA whom the Shire of Knox, later to
be known as the City of Knox was named after. Member Peace and Loyalty UGLV
Ø Charles
Heath (1867-1948 ?), Prominent
local architect, designed the red brick lodge in Davies Street, Brunswick,
which was built by fellow mason W.H. Cooper in 1923 May have designed Cobury soldier's
memorial and Town Hall.
Ø Jack
Iverson (1915 – 1973) cricket
Ø Sir Ian Clunies Ross (1899 – 1959)-
science. His Image was on the $50 Australian Bank Note, 1973 until 1992
Ø Jack Thompson jockey
Ø Dr. Harvey Eustace Astles First
President of the Melbourne Savage Club
Ø Nicholas
Bayly (1770? (1769?)-1823?) ex Lt NSW Corp
Ø William
Archibald Borthwick (1924- 2001) MLA was Minister of Lands, Soldier Settlement,
Health and Deputy Premier
Ø Sir
Gilbert Lawrence Chandler OMG, KBE, (1903-1974) MLC who was founder and
president of the Angliss Hospital for 35 years.
Ø Sir Arthur Dean (1893-1970) Justice
of the Supreme Court Victoria
Ø Tommy Woodcock horseracing
Ø George
Avery, Olympics
Ø Bob
Haynes commentator
Ø Walter Burley Griffin
Ø Sir Kenneth Luke (1896-1971) football
administration
Ø Dick
French, cricket umpire
Ø Sir
Charles Brunton (1867-1938) Melbourne Lord Mayor , President Victorian Bowling
Association
Ø Sir Bruce Small (1895–1980) cycling,
mayor of the City of the Gold Coast
Ø Lionel
Rose Former multiple world boxing champion
Ø Bobby Simpson cricket
Ø Alan McGilvray AM MBE (1909 –1996)
cricket
Ø Ian Craig, Captained Australian Cricket
team)
Ø William (Billy) Lloyd Murdoch (1854 –1911), cricket
, Australian Second Test Captain in 1882
Ø Mr. J. W. Tolmie, Gippsland Pioneer
Ø Victor Trumper (1877- 1915) ,
cricket
Ø James Hardie, businessman
founder Hardie Industries
Ø Tibby Cotter (1883–1917) cricket
Ø Neville Wran
Ø Les Slee, axeman
Ø Lou Richards, football
Ø Harry
Beitzel, football
Ø Brighton Diggins football
Ø Bob Pratt (1912-2001), football
Ø Sid Sewell
Ø Dick Reynolds (1915-2002) Essendon
Football Club
Ø Howard Okey (12 February 1906 - 3 March 1985
Ø Ron Barassi , Victorian Rules
Football legend.
Ø Robert
Campbell (1804-1859), politician, philanthropist, anti-transportationist,
merchant, First Provincial Scottish Grand Master of the Province of Australia
(1856)
Ø Sir
Howard Florey, medicine (1898 –1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and
pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with
Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of
penicillin.
Ø Colonel
Lawrence (Laurie) James Newell AM CStJ QPM ED, (1920-2011), Deputy Police Commissioner,,
soldier, Chair CFA (VIC) 1978-?, Community Leader. commanded the search for
Prime Minister Harold Holt
Ø Leslie
Arthur Logan politician
Ø Neil Roberts football
Ø Jack
Patten, boxer claimed as first Australian Aboriginal Freemason
Ø Arch
Oliver (1920-2004) professor of Civil and Mechanical University of Tasmania,
helped found the school of Engineering at UTAS
Ø The
Honourable Beaumont Arnold Moulden (1849-1926) lawyer and politician,
Ø SA MLA the Palmerton suburb of Moulden is
named after him Attorney-General of South Australia from 1889 to 1890.
Ø William
Hancock, ( - 1904) , Colonialist, built most of the Government buildings and
prominent business places at Kadina, Wallaroo, and Moonta
Ø Harold
Hubert Salisbury 1915–1991 , South Australian Police Commissioner
Ø Thomas
William Blake, JP, Councilor (1938-1950) and Mayor of Preston, 1945/1946
Ø James
Page, originator of the Volunteer Movement when war with Russia Declared 1854
Ø James Larra (James Lara)
(1749-1839), Jewish emancipist and merchant” certainly the most prominent Jew
in the earliest years of the colony” On 12 December 1787, aged 38, he was sentenced to death at the Old
Bailey for having stolen a tankard worth £5. The sentence was commuted to
transportation, and he arrived with the Second Fleet in June 1790 in the
Scarborough. Opened one of the first legal pubs in Australia “The Freemasons
Arms”
Ø William Kerr
(1812-1859), journalist, founded the Melbourne Argus
Ø J.F.Taylor
(?-?) member first South Australian Lodge, Hand of Friendship EC #613 . A
street in Adelaide is named after him
Ø Daniel
Wakefield (?-?) member first South Australian Lodge, Hand of Friendship EC #613
. A street in Adelaide is named after
him
Ø Canon
Farr MA looks to be George Henry Farr (1819-1904), Anglican clergyman and
schoolmaster
Ø G F
Angas, one of the Fathers and Founders of South Australia Less likely to be
George French Angas (1822-1886), naturalist and painter but more likely to be
George Fife Angas (1789-1879), merchant, banker, landowner and philanthropist.
MLC Angastown SA is named after him, he donated land to several public
institutions including building the freemasons hall.
Ø Archibald
Cooke, first initiate in South Australia on 25 March 1856.
Ø Sir
Alexander Hamilton Sea Lord. He commanded the Australian navy from 1918-20. This may be Sir Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton
KCB, DSO, RN (31 December 1890 – 27 June 1957) During his early career he was
generally known as L. H. Keppel Hamilton. I am starting to suspect Denslow was
in error with this entry
Ø Frederick Foote Turner (?-1908)
Attorney general
Ø George
Reibey & James Reibey, sons of Mary Reibey, now pictured on the $20 note
and closely associated with the establishment of Australia’s first bank. Both initiated in The Lodge of Australia
Ø Rev.
F Poole , M.A.
Ø Rev.
Frederic Slaney Poole ,
Ø Sir
William Anglise, food industry (Check issue 122 Vic freemason)
Ø Bob Skilton football
Ø Albert Lachlan
(1877-1955) journalist, attended the opening of the first Federal parliament,
was one of the earliest members of the parliamentary press gallery
Ø Ferdinand
Henry Wright (?-?) served as a Captain with the 14th Infantry Battalion. After
landing on Gallipoli on Anzac Day 1915 he was seriously wounded and invalided
home to Australia. 1921 to 1951 Wright was Consul for the Netherlands in
Victoria
Ø Rev J
H Raverty, Anglican Church Leader, Grand Chaplain.
Ø Graham
Vivian “Polly” Farmer MBE (1935-), footballer
Ø William
(Bill) Berry, Mayor of Brighton Liberal Candidate 1914 election
Ø Alan
Humphrey Croxford (1922-1985), barrister, cattle-breeder and works
administrator. Poor services & planning on outer suburban fringes of
Melbourne drew him into politics. In 1961 he was elected to Doncaster and
Templestowe Shire Council. As councilor & chairman (1961-66) of the
Warrandyte Waterworks Trust, appointed council’s delegate to the Melbourne and
Metropolitan Board of Works. Chair Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works
(MMBW). Initiated in 1943, possibly in Chatham Lodge where he later was Master.
Ø Thomas
Boulton [Bolton] Early NSW Settler or
convict in Sydney
Ø Henry Curtis (John Henry Benedict) (Revd. J. H. A.; Henry Anselm CURTIS, O.S.B.; OSB; J. H. B.
CURTIS) (1829-1909) Singer, "leader of Gregorian chanting",
singing master, Benedictine monk A headmaster of Lyndhurst College, around
1863-64 he entered sexual relationship with the college housekeeper that lasted
8 months, and ended with him renouncing his vows and eloping with the woman to
Melbourne. There, as J. H. B. Curtis, he became a highly respected cititzen,
and prominent freemason, and secretary of The Athenaeum Club Note, he is mentioned here as an Oddfellow and
here a Druid
Ø A.B.
“Banjo” Patterson (1864-1941). Poet,
journalist and author
Ø Henry Lawson (1867-1922), Australian poet
and author Possibly a member of the “Knights of Labor secret society”
– but no evidence he was a Freemason. He was erroneously included in early
versions of this list.
Ø James
Cook (1728-1779) English explorer (Editors
note – UGLE has never been able to substantiate his membership nor has any
other Grand Lodge, likewise no subordinate lodge has ever been able to evidence
his initiation )
Ø George Syme KBE (1873-1942) Managing
Editor of "The Age" and "The Leader" newspapers from 1908
until 1942.
Ø Robert James Lee “Bob” Hawk (1929-)
, former Australian Prime Minister. Indeed, if a PM or Premier is not in our
list it is because I am not in a position to authority speculate that they were
initiated as a Freemason, much less actually have evidence of the same… give me
a reliable source and I will include them as per the usual methods for this
list. Please don’t email me unless you have a reliable source for a PM or Premier.
· The Royal Woman’s Hospital (Melbourne
Lying-in Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Women and Children) has two Freemasons as the Founders
- this might be a good area of research
· The Australian Medical Journals co-founding
editors were Freemasons and a subsequent purchaser was a Freemason – this might
be worth looking into.
· Several of Australia’s first members
of parliament were Freemasons – that would be worth looking into.
· Two out of three early owners of
“The Australian” newspaper were Freemasons
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biographies/search/?query=rele:%22286%22&re=true&rpp=200
· Royal Australian Air Force Air
Marshals: Frederick Scherger (confirmed as a Freemason), Richard Williams,
George Jones, William Bostock, Adrian Cole
Sources
Sources for inclusion of
names are recorded in the endnotes.
Source websites and
books below are recorded either for the strong start they gave me in the early
days of research or because they yielded several names I may not have otherwise
discovered.
For several years now,
my methodology has been to think of a famous or notable Australian, then use Google
to Boolean search for a reliable source confirming membership. Both as a
Freemason and with an interest in History, I often stumble across new names
Web sites used are
retained in this list even if they go off line. Such sites can be retrieved
using internet archives such as http://archive.org/web/
The
Australian Dictionary of Biography
http://adb.anu.edu.au/
National Library of
Australia, Trove, Digitised Newspapers and more
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
Paul M Bessel Web Pages
http://bessel.org/fameaust.htm
National Archives of
Australia
http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/
Parliament of New South
Wales ~ Members
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/V3Home
United Grand Lodge
Victoria's Web Site
http://www.freemasonsvic.net.au/our-history/famous-autralian-freemasons/
http://www.seymour-masons.com/instruction.html
Lodge Tomalpin No 253
http://www.lodge253.org.au/famous.php
The ArmyLodge (478)
http://www.oocities.org/athens/acropolis/1124/ayfamous.html
(Web Site down)
http://www.durham.net/~cedar/famous.html
The Phoenixmasonry
Masonic Museum and Library
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/
It's No Secret, Real Men
Wear Aprons,
Edited Peter Lazar,
Published by Masonic Care Ltd Australia 2009
ISBN 978-0-646-52446-7
A
Century of Union
By PT Thornton,
published by United Grand Lodge Victoria 1989
ISBN 0 7316 5791 8
The History of
Freemasonry in Victoria
by P.T. Thorton.
Published by United Grand Lodge of Ancient and Free Accepted Masons Victoria
1978
ISBN 0 9596128 0 7
Notable South
Australians: or, Colonist - Past and Present .
By George E Loyau,
Carey, Page and Co, Printers, Waymouth Street Adelaide 1885
as found at http://ncb.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/Notable%20South%20Australians%20-Geo%20E.%20Loyau.pdf
on Friday, January 09,
2015
10,000 Famous
Freemasons.
By William R. Denslow's
Published by Macoy
Publishing & Masonic Supply Co., Inc. Richmond, Virginia 1957
Via http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/poems.htm
"Vice Regal Grand
Masters - Who and Why?" by Kent Henderson. Retrieved 4 April 2012 via http://kenthenderson.com.au/m_papers03.html
“Adelaide streets named
for Freemasons”
Grand Lodge Of Antient, Free And Accepted Masons Of South Australia And
Northern Territory
Accessed via http://archive.today/x5DPD#selection-857.0-857.37
on Monday, January 12, 2015
Lodge
of Australia - 180th Anniversary Speech via http://www.lodgeofaustralia.com/~lodgeofa/our-history2/item/173-lodge-of-australia-180th-anniversay-speech.html
on Monday, December 14, 2015
A
Brief Australian Masonic History - The Irish Connection by the late W.Bro. Ron
Cook The Australian Social Lodge No. 260. Via http://www.irishmasonichistory.com/a-brief-australian-masonic-history---the-irish-connection.html
on Saturday, December 26, 2015
My goal is to try to
present a reliable and researchable list which survives scrutiny. I think I am
doing a reasonably good job, but it must be said that due to the methodology being
to research these names via the internet, it is possible the list has developed
a bias towards those already noted on the web as Freemasons. That said, there
are several important men listed who have been discovered via my own research
of books, periodicals and lodge records. The best example of which is Air Chief
Marshall FrederickRudolph William Scherger, who was reported to me as a Freemason, was not listed
on the web as one, but research showed him to be a member.
Firstly, apologies for
removing as many full stops from the list as possible, hence C.B.E becomes CBE.
This was done to make the list more readable.
Also, “Masonic ranks”
have generally not been added with the exception of Grand Masters, and even
then, appellations have been omitted, again to make the list more readable.
· Representative British
Freemasons By Kessinger Publishing Company ISBN: 0766135896
· Representative British
Freemasons", Dodd’s Peerage Limited, London, 1915.
· Australia's First Rotary
Club A History of the Rotary Club of Melbourne By Owen
Parnaby
· The Architect of
Victory: The Military Career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman by
Peter Dean
· A MAN OF ACHIEVEMENT.
H/C + D/W (Waveney Browne) 2nd Edition, 1976. 154pp. A biography of Sir Manuel
Hornibrook and his building achievements in Queensland, around Australia and
the around world. Excellent condition.
· Builders of the Empire,
Freemasonry and British Imperialism 1717-1927 by Jessica l Harland-Jacobs,
University of North Carolina Press 2007 ISBN-13:978-0-8078-3088-8
· Paul Cullen, Citizen and
Soldier : The Life and Times of Major-General Paul Cullen, by Baker, Kevin ISBN
Number 1877058289 / 9781877058288
· Charles Court: I Love
This Place, the biography of one of Western Australia’s best loved politicians.
See index Lathom Masonic Lodge, 31, 47, 93
· O'Dea, C. 1997. Ian
Clunies Ross – a biography. Hyland House, South Melbourne ISBN 1-86447-018-6
· Masonic Influence in the
Settlement, Commercial and Pastoral Development of the Colony of New South
Wales 1788-1860 Author Jennifer Lambert
Tracey Publisher University of
Canberra, 2007 Length 752 pages Subjects Freemasonry New South Wales
· State Library NSW,
Manuscripts and Oral History & Pictures, Chester Smith papers : pictorial
material, ca. 1770-1952 http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=148415
· From Abbey to Athenaeum:
John Henry Benedict Curtis, 1829-1909. Victorian
Historical Journal Volume 82 Issue
2 (Nov 2011) Bowman, Margaret
