Famous &/or Notable Australian Freemasons

Compiled by WBro Damien Hudson, PM Lodge Devotion 723, PM Lodge Evolution 931, UGLV
Copyright 2024 DL Hudson
Version One First Published 2007
This Version (14) is dated Monday, 6 January 2025
Email; melbournemason AT hotmail.com (please use “Famous Australian Freemasons” as subject) 

This list began as a short list of Famous Australian Freemasons in our Lodge Newsletter “Devotion News” and has grown to include over 1,000 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 of Australian members of “The Craft”. My list is now widely used by others – please cite our web site when using our content.

This compendium has been compiled over years and is always evolving. This edition is version 14.

Initially, 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 and a useful resource for researchers. 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 honour 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 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 or influence on Australia; early Governor Generals who were not “Australian” being good examples. 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 value of the list might be to social historians examining how membership of the Craft influenced some of the great men (and women) recorded below, especially how being Freemasons 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 those researchers in mind.

Note - If you reproduce all or part of this list or use it as a reference, in the interest of good manners and the Law, you MUST cite the source. We do not knowingly add a name unless the person is deceased or agreed to be, or is, 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.

Some Household Names of Men who were not Primarily Politicians

(See sections below this one for references establishing Masonic membership)

·   "Smokey Dawson" Herbert Henry MBE AM (1913 –2008), country music entertainer and community leader.

·   Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935), aviator first to cross the Pacific from the US to Brisbane in about 1928.

·   "Chips Rafferty" John William Pilbeam Goffage (1909-1971) Film actor

·   Graham Kennedy (1934-2005), entertainer and the "King of Television". Initiated Lodge of St Kilda, 1955.

·   Charles "Bud" Tingwell (1923-2009) actor and spitfire pilot.

·   Sir Donald Bradman AC (1908-2001), world famous Australian cricketer.

·   Sir Hubert Opperman (1904-1996) world's fastest bicyclist in 1930s.

·   Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). "Father of Australia", botanist.

·   John McDouall Stuart (1815-1866), explorer, claimed he recognised a Masonic greeting when he encountered a party of traditional owners in northern Australia.

·   Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), Governor of NSW (1810 to 1821).

·   James Boag (c.1822-1890), brewer, founded “J. Boag & Son” in 1883.

·   Charles Brownlow (1861-1924), football legend.

Famous Freemasons; Australian Prime Ministers

·   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.

·   Sir George Reid GCB, GCMG, KC (1845-1918), 4th Prime Minister of Australia, Lodge Centennial No. 169, UGL of NSW on 16 Nov 1896 ,

·   Sir Joseph Cook GCMG (1860-1947) 6th Prime Minister of Australia. Initiated into Lodge Independent No 8 UGLNSW 12 Feb 1892.

·   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. Resigned 1960.

·   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

·   Sir Robert Gordon 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 1920. Received a 50 Year Jewel.

·   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

·   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, Master that Lodge 1936, conferred PSGD 1939

·   Sir John Grey Gorton (1911-2002) 19th Prime Minister of Australia. Initiated into Freemasonry at Kerrang Lodge No 100 UGLV on 5 Feb 1948. Resigned 1990

·   Sir William McMahon GCMG, AC, CH (1908-1988) 20th Prime Minister of Australia. Initiated at Lodge University of Sydney No 544 UGLNSW on 22 March 1974.

 Return to Table of Contents

Famous Freemasons; Australian State Premiers

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.

Famous Freemasons; Australian State Premiers – NSW

·   Sir Charles Cowper KCMG (1807-1875) 2nd Premier of New South Wales five times, was initiated in The Lodge of Australia in 1862

·   Sir John Robertson KCMG (1816 - 1891) MLA MLC 5th Premier of NSW and Premier 5 times. Colonial Secretary. President Local Branch Irish (National) League from 1864 until 1865 Led squatter protest against Governor Gipps' attempt to restrict expansion beyond boundaries of location in North-West in 1838. Opposed Federation Best remembered for land reform and in particular the Robertson Land Acts of 1861, which sought to open up the selection of Crown land and break the monopoly of the squatters.

·   James Squire Farnell (1825-1888), MLA, MLC 8th Premier of NSW, politician, drover, bushman. Provincial Grand Master of the Irish Constitution, First Grand Master GL of NSW, Member Leinster Marine Lodge . .

·   Sir Robert Askin GCMG , (1907 - 1981) 32nd Premier of New South Wales, member Boree Lodge No 335 & Prince Edward Lodge No 349 In 1973 Askin became the first Premier of New South Wales to win a fourth successive term.

·   Sir Eric Willis KBE, CMG (1922-99), 34th Premier of New South Wales

  Return to Table of Contents

Famous Freemasons; Australian State Premiers – Queensland

·   Arthur Macalister CMG (1818-1883) solicitor and politician. 2nd Premier of Queensland (Premier there times.1866, 1866-67, 1874-76). Agent-General for Queensland (1876). Speaker of the House (1870). Briefly on Ipswich Municipal Council (1862). Board of Education (1860) and its chairman in 1862-67. He was a founding trustee of the Ipswich Grammar School. MLA. Active in Separatist Movement (from NSW). Provincial Grand Master SC QLD 1875-1879. Macalister Range is named for him.

·   Sir Charles Lilley QC (1827-1897), politician and judge. Social reformer. 4th Premier of Queensland (1868-1870). Colonial Secretary. Chief Justice Supreme Court of Queensland. Australian Republican. CMF. Attorney-General (1865-1866, 1866-1867, 1868-1869). Instrumental in establishing the Brisbane School of Arts and helped found the Brisbane Grammar School (1869). Introduced free education in January 1870. Forrester, Court Fortitude. One of five Queenslanders to be regularly initiated in Queensland, North Australian Lodge No 796 EC (QLD) on 10 Aug 1859.

·   John Douglas CMG (1828-1904), politician and administrator. MLA MLC. 7th Premier of Queensland (1877-79). Federationalist. Postmaster-General. Trustee of Brisbane Grammar School in 1874-77, foundation president Spring Hill Mechanics' Institute (1864), president North Brisbane School of Arts in 1872-85. District Grand Master SC for 18 years (1879-1896), retired 1896. Port Douglas is named for him.

·   Sir Samuel Walker Griffith KCMG (1845-1920), Chief Justice and 9th Premier of Queensland (twice), Grand Master. Federationalist.

·   Sir James Robert Dickson KCMG (1832-1901), businessman, politician and 13th Premier of Queensland. Chairman of the Brisbane Permanent Building and Banking Co. from 1876, foundation chairman of the Queensland Trustees from 1883, and chairman of the Royal Bank of Queensland in the crisis year of 1893. Federationalist. Originally a member of Scottish Masonic Constitution.

·   Sir Robert Philip KCMG(1851-1922), businessman and 15th Premier of Queensland MLA. Initiated 19 Nov 1883 in Townsville Lodge No 1596 EC

·   William Forgan Smith (1887-1953) 24th Premier of Queensland 1932-1940, painter and decorator, trade unionist and anti-conscriptionist. MLA. Initiated into Prince Albert Lodge No 248 UGLQLD.

  Return to Table of Contents

Famous Freemasons; Australian State Premiers – South Australia

·   Boyle Travers Finniss (1807-1893), soldier, surveyor and distinguished public servant. 1st SA Premier Initiated SA Lodge of Friendship in 1838 MLA MLC.

·   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 . Lodge of Friendship SAC

·   Sir John Hart CMG (1809-1873), SC Provincial Grand Master SA 10th 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

·   Justice Sir James Penn Boucaut KCMG QC (1831-1916) Politician and Judge. MLA. 11th Premier South of Australia, Premier three times. Federationalist Member Lodge of Friendship SAC

·   Sir John Alexander Cockburn KCMG (1850-1929), 18th Premier of South Australia, Federationalist and medical practitioner Helped establish the Grand Lodge of South Australia and served in several high offices within it Initiated Friendship Lodge No 423 South Australian 1876

·   John Greeley Jenkins (1851-1923), 22nd Premier of South Australia

·   Thomas Price (1852-1909), 24th Premier of South Australia, reformist, trade unionist

·   Archibald Henry Peake (1859-1920), 25th Premier of South Australia

·   Robert Stanley “Bob” Richards (1885-1967), 32nd Premier of South Australia.

·   Sir Thomas Playford IV GCMG (1896-1981), 33rd 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

·   Rev Lynn Maurice Ferguson Arnold AO (1949-) Anglican Priest and former politician. 40th Premier of South Australia (1992-1993). State Government Minister. CEO World Vision Australia (1997-2003). Chair Don Dunstan Foundation (2010-2020) and Patron. Chairman Freemasons Foundation SA.

  Return to Table of Contents

Famous Freemasons; Australian State Premiers – Tasmania

·   Sir Adye Douglas (1815-1906), lawyer and politician. 15th Premier Tasmania (1884 - 1886), MLA MLC, one of the founders of the Anti-Transportation League. Federationalist; delegate to the federal conventions in 1891 and 1897-98. Elected to the first Launceston Municipal Council (1852), Launceston Mayor in 1865-66 and 1880-82. Founding Junior Warden of St John’s Lodge Launceston in 1843, later its Worshipful Master Initiated 1835

·   Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry “Ned” Braddon, PC KCMG (1829-1904) 18th Premier of Tasmania , politician, federationalist, free-trade supporter, wrote “Life in India” & “Thirty Years of Shikar”, represented Tasmania on Federal Council 1888, Constitutional Convention 1897 and was responsible for the “Braddon Clause” in the Const. of Australia, elected to the First Federal Parliament of Australia, at 72, oldest elected member of MLA. Suburb of Braddon Canberra and Division Braddon are named for him. Initiated Lodge of Peace No 7 TC in 1880, twice Past Master of that Lodge (1897&98)

·   Sir Neil Elliott Lewis KCMG (1858-1935), lawyer and 19th Premier of Tasmanian three times. MLA. Attorney-General . Federationalist. Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania 1933-35. Chancellor of the University of Tasmania 1924-33

·   Sir John William Evans CMG (1855-1943), seaman, businessman and politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania

Famous Freemasons; Australian State Premiers – Victoria

·   Dr William Clark Haines (1810-1866), surgeon and politician. 1st Premier of Victoria. Magistrate, trustee of the Port Phillip Savings Bank, anti-temperance, helped draft Victorian Constitution, colonial Secretary, Melbourne University Vice-Chancellor in 1857-58. Provincial Grand Master SC. MLA MLC

·       Sir James Brown Patterson KCMG (1833-1895), butcher, real estate agent & auctioneer, politician, 17th Victorian Premier 2nd Grand Master of Grand Lodge Victoria (GLV)1886-88 . Mayor of Chewton, MLA

·   Sir George Turner KCMG (1851-1916) Privy Councilor , Victoria's first Australian-born Premier of Victoria (18th) Commonwealth Treasurer & Minister , Mayor of St Kilda 1887-88. Founding member ANA. Introduced income tax (1894) Initiated 1882 at The Brighton District Lodge No37

·   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 (UGLV). Foundation member UGLV as member Creswick Havilah Lodge No 26 UGLV

·   William Alexander Watt (1871-1946) politician, 24th Premier of Victoria, Acting Prime Minister post WW1. Initiated North Melbourne Lodge UGLV 2 Dec 1901, Master that Lodge 4 June 1906, resigned 6 June 1921.

·   Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson KMCG (1875-1952), 27th Premier of Victoria 1918-1924, politician and lawyer. MLA MLC. Initiated Mount Alexander Lodge No 8 UGLV on 11 Dec 1922. Foundation SW (23 Nov 1925) Old Scotch Collegians Lodge No 396 UGLV and Installed as Master that Lodge 25 Oct 1926. Resigned 30 Oct 1951

·   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,

  Return to Table of Contents

Famous Freemasons; Australian State Premiers – Western Australia

·   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

·   John Scaddan CMG (1876-1934) mine-engine driver, MLA. Known as “Happy Jack” 10th Western Australian Premier Youngest WA Premier The town Scaddan is named after him.

·   Sir Charles Court AK, KCMG, OBE (1911 –2007), 21st Western Australian Premier Past Master Lathom Lodge .

Famous Freemasons; Australian & State Governors

·   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 16 January 1793 at Bombay, India in Lodge No 1

·   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 IC, member of Australia Felix, first Grand Register(1889-1890) of UGLV

·   Sir Ernest Clark GCMG KCB CBE (1864-1951), lawyer, taxation inspector, company director, Chief Scout in Tasmania, Governor of Tasmania 1933-45. Grand Master Tasmania 1935-37. Initiated 18 Nov 1890 in St Peter’s Lodge 476 EC (in Wales). Invested as Grand Master when a MM, but soon becoming a Past Master of Tasmanian Operative Lodge No 1 GLTas

·   Sir Frederick Napier Broome KCMG (1842-1896) Governor of Western Australia 1882-89 The town of Broome in Western Australia is named for him

·   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 No. 1629 EC

·   Sir Robert William Duff GCMG, PC (1835-1895), Governor of NSW (1893-1895), 3rd Grand Master of UGLNSW,

·   Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB, MC (1896-1967) South Australian Governor 1953-60 Grand Master South Australia 1956-1958

·   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 No. 98 on 6 February 1950 Dallas Brooks Hall 300 Albert St East Melb was named after him

·   Major General Sir John Charles Hoad KCMG (1856-1911) soldier & distinguished staff officer. First Australian to be appointed head of Commonwealth Military Forces. Assistant adjutant general at Victorian Headquarters (1895). During the Boer War, commanded 1st Australian Regiment (Cape Town 1899). Attached to the Japanese Army as an observer, Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria and received the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class, and the Japanese War Medal. Foundation Chief of the Australian section of the staff Imperial General Staff. Accompanied Field Marshal Lord Kitchener on inspection of Australia's land defences (1909-10). Initiated Windsor Lodge No 72 (UGLV) on 22 Nov 1894, Master of that Lodge 1902

·   Lieutenant-General Sir John Northcott KCMG, CB, MVO, KStJ (1890-1966). NSW State Governor (1946-1957) & 20th Grand Master UGLNSW (1952-55). Wounded at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. Commanded BCOF (Japan) )

·   Lord Somers, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks KCMG, DSO, MC (1887-1944), Governor of Victoria, 12th Grand Master Victoria 1927-1932 . Fourteenth First Grand Principal Holy Royal Arch Victoria. Chief Scout of Victoria and succeeded Baden-Powell as Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth Foundation member Baden Powell Lodge No 488 (UGLV). Initiated Household Brigade Lodge

·   George Edward John Mowbray Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke KCMG CB CVO CBE ADC TD (1862-1947) Soldier & Governor of Victoria 1921-26 Initiated Lodge of Prudence No. 388 10th Grand Master UGLV 1922-1929

·       Lord Stonehaven, Major-General Michael Jeffery PC GCMG DSO, Governor General 1925-1930, Grand Master UGLNSW (1928-30)

·       Major-General Michael Jeffery AC, CVO, MC.(1937-2020), Governor General of Western Australia 1993 –2002 and then Australia 2003–2008, Former CO of SAS Regiment (Australia). Chief Scout of Australia, Initiated in St George’s Lodge No 6 on 23 November 1994, , member Lodge of St John No 1 WAC

·   Sir Samuel J Way (1836-1916), South Australian Lt Governor, Grand Master South Australia 1884-

·   Sir Charles 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

·   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 No 357 EC on 6 June 1872

·   Sir Eric Neal (1924-) AC CVO South Australian Governor 1996-2001 , Chair Wespac

·       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

·   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. 8th Grand Master of UGLNSW (1910-1913). Initiated 1 June 1898 in Lodge of Amity No 137 EC

·   Sir Gerard Smith KCMG (1839-1920), Governor of Western Australia (1895-1900) First Grand Master of Western Australia Grand Lodge. Initiated into Freemasonry on 4 May 1880 in the United Studholme Alliance Lodge No. 1591 EC

·   Lord Kintore, Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer (1852- 1930) Governor of South Australia and Grand Master South Australia 1889-1895

·   Lord Carrington, Charles Robert Carrington (Charles Robert Wynn-Carington) KG GCMG PC DL JP (1843-1928) 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, Governor, British Liberal politician and aristocrat. known as the Lord Carrington from (1868 -1895), and Earl Carrington (1895-1912). Governor of NSW (1885-1890). Prominent Freemason; UGLE District Grand Master NSW (1888-90) and united the four separated Grand Lodges to form UGLNSW. First Grand Master UGLNSW (1888–1891). Initiated 28 October 1861 in Sir Isaac Newton Lodge No. 859 (EC)

·   Sir Thomas Mellis Napier KCMG (1882-1976) Judge, Lieutenant Governor 1942-73 Grand Master of South Australia 1928-1930

·   Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson GCB GCMG (1843-1910), Governor of NSW 1902-1909. “He promoted 'the ultimate formation of a separate navy' for Australia”. 6th Grand Master of United Grand Lodge of New South Wales (1905-09). Initiated in Royal Sussex Lodge No. 501 EC in November 1863

·   Lord Brassey. Thomas Brassey KCB (1836-1916), 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 No. 98

·   Lieutenant-General Sir John Goodwin KCB, KCMG, DSO, Queensland Governor 1927-32 and Queensland Grand Master1931-32.

·   Lord Gowrie, Brigadier General Sir Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven VC DSO and Bar (1872-1955) Victoria Cross Winner, and Australia's longest serving Governor-General. 15th Grand Master UGLNSW. Initiated into Freemasonry at Lodge St Andrews Military Lodge No 668 on 15 March 1893.

·   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 No. 65 NSWC on 17 January 1904

·       Sir Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey GCB, GCMG, PC, DL, JP (1845-1915), Governor of NSW, 2nd Grand Master UGLNSW (1891-1893) Initiated into Apollo University Lodge No 357 EC, on 25 October 1865 affiliated with Lodge Ionic No. 65 NSWC

·   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 IC Grand Master

·   Lord Carmichael, Thomas Gibson Carmichael GCSI KCMG (1859-1926) Governor Victoria 1908-11 Governor of Madras , India, Governor of Bengal . Grand Master of Scotland (1908). Grand Master UGLV 1909-1912 . Initiated 1895 in Lodge Dramatic and Arts No. 757 SC

·   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 Antioch No 570 UGLV on 4 Oct 1954.

·   Sir George Cumine Strahan KCMG. (1838-1887), Governor of Tasmania .

·   Sir Ronald Hibbert Cross KCMG (1896-1968), British Parliamentarian. British High Commissioner to Australia 1941. Governor of Tasmania 1951 Initiated in Fidelity Lodge No. 63, Tasmania, in 1953 while serving as Governor.

·   Lieutenant-Colonel 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.

·   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

·   Col James Erskine CB (1765-1825) fought at the Battle of Vinegar Hill (Ireland) in June 1798. Lieutenant-Governor Port Jackson & NSW. Presented silver trowel to Australian Social Lodge No 260 IC

·   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.

·   Lieutenant-General Sir John Lavarack, Grand Master QLD Governor of Queensland from 1946-1957.

·   Sir Charles du Cane KCMG (1825–1889), Politician, Public Servant and Governor. Governor of Tasmania 1868-1874

·   Sir George Grey KCB (1812-1898), explorer of Australia, writer, Governor, politician. Named Glenelg River, Stephen Range, Mt Lyell. 3rd Governor South Australia 1841-5, twice Governor New Zealand 1845-1853 & 1861-68, Governor of Cape Colony (South Africa) 1854-61, 11th Premier New Zealand 1877-79. Member Friendship Lodge SAC.

·   Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Ballie, 2nd Baron Lamington, GCMG GCIE, (1860-1940) politician and Governor of Queensland 1896-1901 & Bombay 1903-1907. Lamington's name is remembered in Australia by place names, particularly the Lamington Plateau in Queensland and Mount Lamington in Papua-New Guinea. It is claimed that a cake covered in chocolate and coconut is named after him. Initiated 2 Nov 1903 Lodge Biggar Free Operative No 167 SC, District Grand Master SC India 1904-1908

·   Field Marshal Sir Henry Wylie Norman GCB GCMG (1826-1904), soldier, governor and agent-general. Aide-de-camp to the Queen Victoria 1863-69. Governor of Jamaica 1883, Governor of Queensland 1888-95. Initiated 15 September 1851 in Khyber Lodge No 582 EC in India Not an active Freemason

·   Sir William Portus Cullen, KC, KCMG (1855-1935). Chief Justice and politician. Chancellor, University of Sydney (1913-1934), Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (1910-1930), and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1910-1925). Federationalist. MLA MLC

NOTE – Two Governors not noted above appear in the Premiers lists while several others appear elsewhere, their achievements as Governors being secondary.

  Return to Table of Contents

Famous Australian Freemasons; Australians of the Year ..

·   Major General Alan Bishop Stretton AO CBE (DSO Vietnamese) (1922-2012), Army Officer, Australian of the Year 1975. Best known for efforts following Cyclone Tracy, Christmas Day 1974. In 1975, Stretton was named Australian of the Year as well as Father of the Year. Initiated Paralled Lodge No 489 (UGLV) on 26 June 1947

·   Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop, Australian of the Year 1976 (see military men section for footnotes)

Famous Australian Freemasons; Australian (and Foreign) Explorers

·   Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), explorer

·   Hamilton Hume (1797-1873) first Australian explorer to be born here. Initiated at Leinster Marine Lodge of Australia No 266 IC on 12 Sept 1825.

·   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`

·   Lieutenant John Oxley (1783-1828) RN explorer . Surveyor-General . Initiated Lodge of Social and Military Virtues No 277 IC on 6 March 1817.

·   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 .

·   Charles Henry Karius (1893-1940) Explorer and Magistrate in PNG. Found the source of the Fly and Strickland Rivers, & headwaters of the Sepik River. Initiated New Guinea Lodge No 292 UGLQ on 29 Nov 1926,

·   Sir Joseph Banks KB PC (1743-1820) "Father of Australia", botanist . Believed to be the first Freemason to set foot in Australia with CPT Cook on HMAS Endevour 1770. Member Inverness Lodge, No. 4 Member Waltham Lodge No 279 until his death

·   Sir Augustus Charles Gregory KCMG (1819-1905) Explorer Surveyor-General of Queensland, found coal in Western Australia . MLC. First English District Grand Master in QLD. Initiated Samaritan Lodge No 575 EC in Sydney in 1855.

·   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.

·   Charles Archibald Brookes Hoadley CBE (1887-1947), explorer, educationist and scout leader. Member Australasian Antarctic Exploration Expedition led by Douglas Mawson (1911-1913). Chief Commissioner Victorian Boy Scout Association (1928-1937). Awarded the King's Polar Medal (1915), Order of the Silver Wolf (1931). First Principal Footscray Technical School. Foundation Member Baden Powell Lodge No 488. WM 1922 at Footscray Wisdom No 239. Foundation Secretary Wyndham Lodge No 239 (all UGLV). Cape Hoadley in Antarctica and Hoadley Memorial Lodge No 669 (1951) UGLV named after him. Initiated 1 May1915 in Lodge Orion No 55 UGLV

·   Arthur Todd Holroyd MD, MB, FZS, FLS, FRGS (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 (now Holroyd). District Grand Master of the English constitution (1867-77)

·   Albert Frederick Calvert (1872-1946), author, explorer, traveler and mining engineer. Initiated 1893. “..ended his writing career as an unreliable chronicler of Masonic history”

·   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)

·   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

  Return to Table of Contents 

Famous Australian Freemasons; Military Men – Victoria Cross Recipients

The Victoria Cross is the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. In Australia, the Victoria Cross for Australia has replaced it and was created by letters patent signed by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on 15 January 1991. Both awards entitle the recipient to the post nominal "V.C.". Since established in 1856 and first awarded in 1857, 1,358 VCs have been gazetted over the entire British Empire. By comparison the American Medal of Honor was first awarded in 1863 and has been awarded 3,517 times. The military ranks recorded below are the final rank achieved and not held at the time the VC was awarded. You do not “win” a VC, you are awarded it, yet “winner” in used below in consideration of google searches.

·   Lord Gowrie, Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven VC PC GCMG CB DSO and Bar (1872-1955) Victoria Cross Winner, and Australia's longest serving Governor-General (see Governor General Section above)

·   Lt William Dunstan VC (1895–1957), Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated St John's Lodge No 36 (UGLV) on 13 July 1916, resigned July 2020. Joined Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 (UGLV) 12 Jan 1922, resigned 12 Aug 1926.

·   John Hutton Bisdee 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

·   Major General Neville R Howse VC, KCB, KCMG (1863-1930), surgeon & soldier, politician first Victoria Cross Winner in Australian Services and only medical member of the Australian Forces to be awarded the VC. MLA Initiated Lodge Ophir on 29 Aug 1901 , Master of that Lodge in 1909

·   Captain Albert Jacka, VC, MC & Bar (1893-1932) Australia’s first WW1 VC. Initiated in Caledonian Lodge No 113 UGLV on 12 Jan 1922.

·   Corporal John Hurst “Jack” Edmondson (1914-1941) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated into Lodge Liverpool No 197 on 3 April 1935. First Australian VC of WW2, KIA Siege of Tobruk. ,

·   Brigadier Arthur Blackburn VC CMG CBE ED (1892-1960), soldier, lawyer, politician, Victoria Cross Winner. Landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. MLA. Initiated Peter's Collegiate Lodge No 58 South Australia on 9 Dec 1918.

·   Gunner Walter Ernest “Wally” Brown VC DCM (1885-1942) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated Lodge Godeldrie No 558 on 7 April 1931.

·   Private George Cartwright VC (1894-1978) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated Lodge Merrylands No 479 on 1 Nov 1923.

·   Private William Matthew Currey VC (1895-1948) Victoria Cross Winner. MLA. Initiated into Lodge Carlton No 382 on 11 March 1930.

·   Private James Hannah (Heather) “Jim” Gordon VC (1907-1986) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge United Service No 307 WA on 2 April 1959

·   Major Blair Anderson Wark VC DSO (1894-1941) army officer and quantity surveyor, Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge Lane Cove No 338 on 8 Nov 1921

·   Seaman James Gorman VC (1834-1882) Victoria Cross Winner initiated at The Leinster Marine Lodge of Australia in 1878.

·   Sergeant John Woods Whittle VC DCM (1882-1946) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge Sydney St Andrew no 7 on 1 Nov 1923

·   Lieutenant James Rogers VC (1873-1961). Soldier and farmer. Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge Robbie Burns No 88 UGLV on 11 Nov 1913

·   Captain Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell VC (1884-1933) soldier and farmer. Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Lodge Bulwer No 1068 UGLE on 15 June 1917

·   Lieutenant-Colonel William Donovan Joynt VC (1889-1986) soldier, printer and publisher. Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated at Old Melbournians Lodge No 317 UGLV on 12 Oct 1923. Also joined Berwick Lodge No 359 in 1924, excluded No 359 on 30 Sept 1928, lifted 16 Dec 1954 and joined Bolton Memorial Lodge No 758 on 12 Feb 1955. Lodge

·   Corporal George Julian “Snowy” Howell VC MM (1893-1964) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated into Freemasonry on 2 Dec 1920.

·   Major Frederick Harold Tubb VC (1881 - 1917) Victoria Cross Winner. Initiated Euroa Lodge No 185 UGLV on 10 Feb 1914,

·   Lieutenant-Colonel William John Symons VC (1889-1948), soldier and businessman. Initiated Windsor Lodge No 72 UGLV on 27 April 1916. Excluded 25 Feb 1921, exclusion removed Sept 1922. Changed his surname after the war to “Penn-Symons”

·   Lieutenant William "Rusty" Ruthven, VC (1893 –1970). MLA. Elected Collingwood Council in 1931 and was Mayor (1945-46). Official timekeeper for the Collingwood Football Club. MLA 1945–61. Foundation member Legion of Honour Lodge No 622 on 2nd September 1947 (resigned that Lodge 30 June 1964). Initiated in Clifton Hill Lodge No 335 UGLV on 2 June 1932 (resigned that Lodge 3 Nov 1955) Clifton Hill Lodge was renumbered after merger.

·   Captain Albert Chalmers Borella, VC, MM (1881 –1968). soldier and farmer. Changed his name to Chalmers-Borella in Sept 1939. Initiated Lodge Grange No 45 UGLV in July 1925

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dalziel (1893-1965), soldier, locomotive fireman and farmer – the 1,000th receipting of the Victoria Cross Connaught Lodge No 335. Initiated 4th September 1919 at Atherton, Queensland

·   William Napier VC (1828 – 1908). Born in England, his Victoria Cross was gazetted in 1858 for actions at Azamgarh in India. Arrived in Australia January 1863, buried at Bendigo Victoria. Initiated in St John's of Rochester Lodge N 1882 EC in Bendigo and became that Lodge’s Secretary.

·        Corporal Cameron Baird VC MG (1981-2013) Initiated 23 Sept 2006 Lodge Thespian No 256 UGLNSW&ACT

Famous Australian Freemasons; Military Men of Rank or Note

·   Col Dr Sir Ernest Edward “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

·   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 Member Victorian Naval and Military Lodge 49 (Likely initiated in Corinthian Lodge No 68, Egypt, date unknown, but joined Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 on 8 July 1920)

·   Air Chief Marshal 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). Initiated 21 May 1929 in Adastral Lodge No 397 UGLV, WM Adastral Lodge No. 397 (1939-1945). Member Lodge of the Golden Fleece No 300 UGLV 1950-1962. MMM of Werribee Mark Lodge No.98

·   Air Vice Marshal Stanley James “Jimmy” Goble, CBE, DSO, DSC, CdeG, (1891 – 1948) “a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)”. Served three terms as Chief of the Air Staff, alternating with Wing Commander (later Air Marshal Sir) Richard Williams. Goble came to national attention in 1924 when he and fellow RAAF pilot Ivor McIntyre became the first men to circumnavigate Australia by air, journeying 8,450 miles (13,600 km) in a single-engine floatplane. Member Rechab No 224 UGLV

·   Air Vice Marshal Joseph Eric “Joe” Hewitt CBE (1901-1985). RAAF Officer. Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in 1941. Commanded No.9 (Operational) Group in the New Guinea area (1943), the largest and most important operational command in the RAAF, praised but sacked less than a year later over alleged morale and disciplinary issues. Responsible for demobilisation of RAAF post WW2, and the development of a postwar professional air force – his restructuring of education and training is favourably viewed. Lodge Adastral No 397 UGLV on 25 May 1926. Resigned 30 June 1938. Affiliated Old Scotch Collegians' Lodge No 396 (ULGV) on 3 Oct 1956, resigned 31 Oct 1974.

·   Major-General Sir Frederick Gallagher “Black Jack” Galleghan DSO OBE ISO ED (1897-1971), army officer and public servant, WW1 & WW2, Battalion Commander, POW in Changi Prison Camp. Initiated 20 August 1919 in Lodge St John No 115 NSWC

·   Major-General Dr Frederick Arthur Maguire CMG DSO VD KStj MD (1888 – 1953) soldier and surgeon. Commanding officer Australian Army Medical Corps, 3rd Division 1918-20. Alderman Sydney Council. Grand Master NSW 1933-35 & 1944-5. Initiated June 1920 in Lodge of Australia No 3 NSW

·   Major-General Raymond Sharp AO RFD ED (1929-?) reservist (full time) army officer, Commander of the 2nd Infantry Division, WM Lodge Penshurst No 859 (1957-58), member Army & Navy No 517, Lodge Oatley 381

·   Major-General Sir George Frederick Wootten KBE, DSO and Bar, DSC (USA), E.D. (1893 – 1970). Distinguished Soldier, Solicitor and Administer. Landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. Division Commander. Brigade Commander at Tobruk (1941). Accepted the surrender of the Japanese 37th Army in Borneo. Chair Repatriation Commission 1945-58. Initiated in Lodge Combermere No.752 E.C (Melbourne) on 18/8/21 & affiliated Lodge Bland. (15/8/28) GL NSW

·   Air-Commodore Colin Rex “Rex” Taylor CBE (1914-?), John Knox Lodge Initiated Lodge Adastral No 397 UGLV in 1947

·   Air-Commodore Arthur Henry “Harry” Cobby CBE DSO DFC (two Bars) GM (1894-1955) , Leading fighter ace of the Australian Flying Corps during World War 1. Cobby shot down 29 aircraft and 13 balloons between February and September 1918, and was the leading A.F.C. ace. United States of America Medal of Freedom with bronze palm, for meritorious wartime service. Member Peace Commemoration Lodge 519 UGLV at time of death. Initiated in Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 UGLV 1916 and was Master of Adastral No 397 UGLV 1932-33 and was PSGD.

·   Air-Commodore Jack Napier Davenport AC DSO GM DFC and bar (1920-1996), pilot, flying ace, Commanding Officer 455 Squadron, businessman, Managing Director Monier Ltd, Deputy Chair Reserve Bank Australia, Director Alcoa, Qantas and many other companies. Initiated 13 July 1951 in Lodge Sydney High School No 631 UGLNSW and died a Freemason

·   Air-Commodore William Henry “Bull” “Bill” Garing CBE DFC MID DSC (USA) (1910-2004) PJGW GL NSW&ACT. received the Distinguished Flying Cross after he held off three waves of German bombers, over 12 hours, that were attacking the Armed Merchant Cruiser Mooltan on 31 July 1940. Initiated Lodge Adastral No 597 (UGLV) 16 Aug 1932 aged 21. Member Gippsland No 51 (UGLV) 1944-62

·   Air-Commodore Jack Dowling CBE AFC (1916-1992?). Commanded 458 Squadron Nth Africa. Commander RAAF Forces Vietnam. Initiated Gippsland Lodge No 51 (UGLV) on 2 March 1949, resigned 5 June 1985

·   Major-General Sir Robert Joseph Henry Risson CB, CBE, DSO, OStJ, ED (1901-1992). Chairman Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board . 25th Grand Master of the UGLV 1974 - 1976 chief commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association 1958-1963 Initiated Baden Powell Lodge No 488 (UGLV) 24 July 1961, member several other Lodges in UGLV including 478, 831,855

·   Major-General Francis Eric “Frank” Poke AO, RFD ED (1923-2018) Grand Master UGLV 1991-1993. Initiated Poulett Lodge No. 18 (GLTas) on 5 Nov 1953 & member United Service Lodge No 330 (UGLV) from 1972.

·   Major-General Sir Alan Hollick Ramsay CB CBE DSO ED (1895-1973) soldier and teacher. WW1 & WW2. Initiated 6 Oct 1925 in Aberfeldie Lodge 309 UGLV

·   Major-General Roy Kendall CBE MID (1887-1963) 1st AIF Fought in WW1 and WW2. Fought on Kododa Track where he was head of signals. Commanded Corps Signals in Middle East and Greece. Director of Recruiting (1954). Initiated in NSW (either Unity 32 and Lodge Imperial No 579), joined Army Lodge No 478 (UGLV) on

·   Major-General George Alan Vasey aka” 'Bloody George” CB CBE DSO and Bar (1895-1945) soldier. Also held Greek Military Cross (1944) & United States' Distinguished Service Cross (1944). Division Commander. A commanding officer Middle East, Crete, Papua, New Guinea including on the Kokoda Trail. Initiated 10 Oct 1927 in Wesley Collegians Lodge No 358 UGLV, affiliating with several others in other Constitutions but remained a member of 358 until his death.

·   Major-General John Keatly Forsyth CMG (1867-1928) commander Fourth Light Horse Regiment Arrived Gallipoli May 1914

·   Major-General Sir Charles “Rosie” Rosenthal KCB CMG DSO VD (1875-1954) architect, soldier and musician MLA MLC. Designed St Andrew's, Lismore, St Laurence's, Barraba, and Holy Trinity, Dulwich Hill, Sydney Anglican Churches. One of founders Aerial League of Australia in 1909. Fought at Gallipoli, twice wounded. Division Commander. awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre (1917), the French Croix de Guerre (1918) and the Légion d'honneur (1919). Administrator of Norfolk Island 1937-45.

·   Major-General Robert Edward Jackson CMG DSO (1886-1948) Served at Gallipoli to WW2. Member Army Lodge No 478 UGLV

·   Major-General Arthur Gillespie Wilson DSO CBE (1897-1981) Member Army Lodge No 478 UGLV

·   Major-General Ronald Eustace Wade CB CBE (1924-1995) Adjutant General. Initiated in Army Lodge No 478 in 1940.

·   Major-General Thomas Henry Dodds CMG CVO DSO (1873-1943) Victorian Naval and Military Lodge 49 UGLV . Deputy Adjutant General in France to AIF. Hawthorn City Councilor, Honorary Federal Treasurer of RSL.

·   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

·   Major-General Sir Thomas William “Bill” Glasgow KCB, CMG, DSO, VD (1876 – 1955), soldier, politician & diplomat. General Glasgow Lodge No 267 UGLQ is named in his honour. Landed at Gallipoli on 12 May 1915. Led the Anzac Day parade in Brisbane for twenty years. Australia's first High Commissioner to Canada. Given a State Funeral. MLC . Member AIF Memorial Lodge No 289. Member Lord Dufferin Lodge No 48 UGLQ and was Master in 1913/14.

·   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.

·   Lieutenant-General Sir Carl Jess CB, CMG, CBE, DSO (1884-1948)

·   Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Morshead KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED Legion of Honour (France) (1889-1959), WW1 & WW2 Soldier, Gallipoli & France (1915-18), Commander Rats of Tobruk and New Guinea and Borneo Campaigns Initiated Lodge No 195 on 23 March 1921, Lodge Army and Navy No 517

·   Lieutenant-General Henry Gordon Bennett CB, CMG, DSO, VD (1887 – 1962). Served in both WW1 and WW2. Despite highly decorated achievements during WW 1, during which he commanded at both battalion and brigade level and became the youngest general in the Australian Army, Bennett is best remembered for the Battle of Singapore in February 1942. As commander of the 8th Australian Division, he escaped while his men became prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army. He never again commanded troops in battle. In 1945, his escape caused controversy and resulted in a Royal Commission, which found that he had been unjustified in relinquishing his command. Member Austral Temple Lodge No 110

·   Brigadier The Hon Murray William James Bourchier CMG, DSO, VD, MLA (1881-1937) grazier, soldier and politician, led his Regiment, the 4th Australian Light Horse, in the Charge at Beersheba Initiated Rupertswood Lodge No 104 UGLV 1908

·   Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO (1894-1981) Army Officer. Fought in WW1 & WW2. Initiated St. Clair Lodge No 43 UGLV on 10 Dec 1919. (Resigned 12 July 1933, Joined Army Lodge No 478 UGLV on 2 Nov 1934). Affiliated Army & Navy Lodge No 517 NSW in April 1932. Received 50 Year Jewel UGLV.

·   Lieutenant-General Rudolph Bierwirth CBE (1899-1993) Commander in Chief, British Commonwealth Forces Korea (BCFK), affiliated Army & Navy Lodge No 517 NSW in June 1934

·   Lieutenant-General Sir William Robert MacFarlane Drew, KCB CBE QHP MB FRCP (1907-1991) Director-General of Army Medical Services 1965-1969

·   Major-General Edward James Milford CB CBE DSO (1894-1972) Divisional Commander (5th & 7th) WW2. At noon on 8 September 1945 Milford accepted the surrender of all Japanese troops in Borneo Initiated into Army Lodge No 478 UGLV in 1937, Master of that Lodge 1947 remaining a member until deceased.

·   Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE, CB (1872-1949) British Royal Navy Officer (RN) . Held several commands concerning Australia & NZ, including commanding the Australian Fleet as 1918-20 and HMAS Australia (launched 1911), the only capital ship to serve in the RAN.. Initiated into the Lodge of St. John and St. Paul, No. 349 in Malta 1894

·   Rear-Admiral Guy Griffiths AO, DSO, DSC, RAN (1923-) 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.

·   Commodore Dacre Henry Deudraeth Smyth AO (1923 –2008) senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy(RAN), an artist and a poet. Published many books. Commanding Officer of HMAS Cerberus (1971-1978) Initiated Lodge of Memories No 633 UGLV on 24 April 1952. Received 50 Year Jewel in 2002

·   Brigadier-General Sir Walter Ramsay McNicoll DSO, KBE, CMG (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 AIF. Administrator of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea in August (1934-1942). Initiated Geelong Unity and Prudence No 5 UGLV on 16 Oct 1913 (resigned 1920)

·   Brigadier-General Evan Alexander Wisdom CB CMG DSO (1869-1945) soldier, businessman. One of first to receive a commission (Lieut 1 Oct 1901) after Commonwealth took over Defense Dept, in command of Cannington Mounted Infantry. Staff Officer to General White at evacuation of Anzac then served in France. Mayor of Claremont 1908-12. Administrator (Governor) of Mandated Territory of ex-German New Guinea 1921-1932. MLA

·   General John Jackson Paine CBE VD (1864-1936) Soldier and solicitor. Mayor of Windsor for 9 years

·   Lieutenant-General Sir Horace Clement Hugh Robertson KBE DSO (1894-1960) WW1 & WW2, over his career accepted 9 swords from defeated commanders. Egypt, Gallipoli Palestine & Syria (1914-18), Bardia, Tobruk, Palestine, & New Guinea (1939-45). C in C British Commonwealth Occupying Force Japan (1946-51) & Korea (1951-53). Division Commander Initiated 4 Nov 1922 in Kitchener Lodge No 240 UGLV, affiliated many times in different constitutions , Past Master of Army Lodge No 478 UGLV

·   Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley George Savige KBE, CB, DSO, MC, ED (1890-1954) soldier and founder of Legacy. Landed Gallipoli 6 March 1915

·   Major-General Herbert William Lloyd, CB, CMG, CVO DSO (1883 - 1957) MLA Fought at Gallipoli where he earned his DSO. Member of Australia Felix of Hiram No 4 UGLV

·   Surgeon-General Sir William Daniel Campbell Williams KCMG CB KStJ (1856-1919) surgeon and soldier. See the “Medicine” section

·   Colonel Sir Thomas Charles “Tom” Eastick DSO, CMG, ED (1900-1988), engineer and army officer. Regiment Commander. RSL State president. Accepted Japanese surrender at Kuching Borneo in 1945

·   Colonel Alexander Robert Heron CMG DSO VD CMF (1888-1949), soldier and pharmacist. Battalion Commander WW1 & 2. 75 Years a Freemason, WM Kennedy Lodge in 1928 and Past First Principal Chapter, Scribe Ezra.

·   Colonel Ferdinand Henry Wright (1889-1981) Company Director. Captain with the 14th Infantry Battalion. After landing on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915; seriously wounded and invalided home to Australia. 1921 to 1951 Wright was Consul for the Netherlands in Victoria. WW2 carried out several secret missions to Malaya, New Guinea and the Netherlands Indies Initiated Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 (UGLV) on 13 April 1922. In 1934, joined United Services No 330 UGLV

·   Colonel James Lawson DSO (1884-1965) Led 'A' Squadron which led the Charge at Beersheba 31 Oct 1917, depicted in George Lambert's painting of the battle of Beersheba at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra Initiated Rupanyup No 118 UGLV 1913 and received his 50 Year Jewel in that Lodge.

·   Colonel Terance Raymond “Terry” Bates (1934- 2015). Foundation member of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Lodge No 921 UGLV, 60 years a Freemason

·   Colonel James Campbell Stewart DSO and Bar, CMG (1884-1947), soldier and public servant, acting Battalion Commander Gallipoli , Brigade Commander France. Chief Marshal ANZAC Day March. Prominent Freemason

·   Colonel Leslie Walker (?-?), member first South Australian Lodge, Hand of Friendship EC No.613 . Walker Street Adelaide is named after him

·   Colonel Burford Sampson DSO (1882-1959), soldier and politician. Platoon commander at Gallipoli, MLC Author of Tommy Atkins, Boer War Yarns and other war stories

·   Colonel William Brazenor DSO and Bar (1888-1945), soldier and administrator, fought with distinction at Lone Pine, Gallipoli. Foundation member of Wendouree Masonic Lodge. Yarrowee No 10 in 1914

·   Colonel David Day Dawson VD CMF (1876-1935) promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the 1st AIF 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 (RSSILA) Member Rockhampton City Council. Past Master Capricornia Masonic Lodge.

·   Colonel Clement James Cummings DSO OBE (1908–1991), soldier, accountant, and sportsman. Battalion Commander. RSL’s Meritorious Service Medal (1990) “One of Australia's most distinguished field officers of World War II” Colonel Cummings Drive Buchans Point, Cairns is named after him.

·   Colonel Arthur Anthony Page ED (1922-2011) WW2 veteran and author of “Between Victor and Vanquished”. As physiotherapist, headed the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Centre in Brisbane, specialising in the rehabilitation of amputees. Founding member Astronomers’ Association of Queensland (AAQ) and was its first President in 1969. Fellow Astronomical Association of Australia (ASA). Member AIF Memorial Lodge No 289.

·   Colonel Franklin James “Bill” Morgan ED (1917-2001) banker. Grand Master GLQLD 1980-83

·   Colonel Justin Fox Greenlaw Foxton CMG (1849-1916), politician, barrister and soldier MLA. Supported female enfranchisement. His role in the creation of the Australian fleet remains his greatest claim to remembrance. President of the Queensland Cricket Association and member of the Australian Cricket Board of Control. Member Scottish Constitution Lodge

·   Colonel Alexander “Alex” Christie CBE (1886-1971) Army Officer during WW1 & WW2, Knight of St John and founder of the Colonel Alexander Christie CBE Trophy of St John Ambulance. Founding member and IPM of AIF Memorial Lodge No 289 UGLQ (1922) Joining member Lodge Antioch No 570 UGLV in 1936 and United Ambulance No 602 UGLV in 1949. Initiated in NSW, Imperial Lodge No 579 on unknown date, but prior to July 1938 when he joined Antioch. PM in Queensland Constitution.

·   Colonel John Murray Church DSO (1928-2016) served in Korea, Malaysia and was the Commanding Officer 2 RAR 70/71 tour in Vietnam

·   Colonel Lawrence James “Laurie” Newell AM CStJ QPM ED JP (1920-2011) Deputy Police Commissioner, soldier, Chair CFA (VIC) 1978-?, Community Leader. Commanded the search for Prime Minister Harold Holt. Initiated Australia Felix No 1 UGLV on 14 Sept 1953, WM that Lodge 1968-69 & 1983-84

·   Colonel Herbert Brayley Collett CMG DSO VD (1877-1947) librarian, soldier and politician. MLC Became a Lt Col at 31. President RSL WA 1925-33; patron of the Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association of Australia. President of National Party of WA

·   Colonel Eric Fairweather Harrison (1880-1948), soldier, staff officer and politician. First Australian to attend Staff College at Quetta India (1910). On the outbreak of WW1, gave the order at Port Phillip Heads to fire across the bows of the German steamer Pfalz to prevent its escape. Director and chief instructor, Royal Military College, Duntroon (1915 & 1941). Initiated Clarke Lodge No 98 (UGLV) 6 Sept 1933

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Harold Daniel Luxton (1888-1957), Businessman, MLA Lord Mayor of Melbourne Initiated Old Melbournians Lodge No 317 UGVL on 14 Dec 1928 serving as Master that Lodge 1932

·   Lieutenant-Colonel George Francis Murphy CMG DSO and Bar, (1883-1962) soldier, teacher and administrator. One of the last to leave during evacuation at Gallipoli . Foundation member of Sydney Legacy

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Edmund Hutchinson Cass CMG (1876-1931), soldier, commandant & teacher. Brigade major of the 2nd Brigade, AIF 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. Initiated in St Clair No 43 UGLV in 1904

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Harold Frederick Stokes CBE (1899-1977), engineer, company director. President of the Austin Hospital (1952-74) and chairman of the board of the Cancer Institute. A wing of the Austin Hospital was named after him. Initiated Army Lodge No 478 UGLV on 7 March 1947.

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Philip William Clifford Stokes, OBE ED (1906-1983) politician. Commanded 8th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (nicknamed "Stokes Travelling Circus") at Siege of Tobruk. He was MID and later served in New Guinea. MHR (Fed.). Initiated Lombard Lodge No 359 (UGLV) on 23 Jan 1929. WM Strathmore No 566 (UGLV) 14 June 1956

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Dr Howard Kynaston Denham DSO (1883-1972), soldier and medical practitioner. Battalion Commander. Initiated 1911, WM Ionic Lodge, Sydney

·   Lieutenant-Colonel William Stansfield CMG DSO VD (1874-1946), a WWI veteran and the “Queensland magician of transport and supply” at Gallipoli and in the Desert campaign. He also served in WWII. Founding Member AIF Memorial Lodge No 289

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Dr Arthur Ross Clayton DSO (1876-1963), medical practitioner Mayor of the Moonta 1924-26 & 1939-40

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Gordon Walker DSO ED CMF (1900-1971), army officer and businessman. 24th Battalion Commander. Battle of Tobruk. POW, Captured Battle of Crete after stepping off evacuation transport when he realized most of his men would be captured. Captured Battle of Crete (20 May to 1 June 1941) on 1 June 1941. Degree Dates not recorded, but looks to be Initiated Wesley Collegians Lodge No 358 UGLV. Affiliated The Army Lodge No 478 UGLV on 2 Sept 1938, WM that Lodge 1951-52

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hazell Elliott CMG, DSO and Bar (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

·   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

·   Lieutenant-Colonel William Charles Nightingale Waite MC (1880-1973), soldier and auctioneer. Served in Boer War, WW1 & WW2 (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. Well known as Chief Marshal on Anzac Day in Adelaide; proudly mounted on a dapple-grey charger, he led the parade on twenty-nine occasions.

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Arthur Kendall CMG (1876-1938), veterinary surgeon. First Chair Victoria’s Milk Board

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Byrne Hart MC, CBE (1895-1989), soldier, accountant and company director. From January 1943 commanded the 2nd Australian Water Transport Group. Lamington Lodge No 110 UGLQ, Master that Lodge 1936-37 PAGM

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Allan Gordon Cameron DSO and Bar (1909-1960), bank officer and soldier was awarded the DSO and Bar in New Guinea. Battalion Commander.

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Donald Charles Cameron KCMG DSO & Bar VD Order of the Nile KCMG (1879-1960), solider, pastoralist and politician. Veteran of the Boxer Rebellion, South Africa War, and WWI, wounded at Gallipoli. Regimental Commander leading the attack on Beersheba. Queensland Parliamentarian 1919-1931, Almoner of the Order of St John in Australia. Member AIF Memorial Lodge No 289 MLA. (not to be confused with Donald Cameron (1877-1950), soldier and glazier )

·   Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles Strickland (1856-1933) Senior Militia Officer in Australia. Initiated Lodge of St John 1878 and PM of the same, Grand Scribe Ezra

·   Lieutenant-Colonel John Joseph Moore RFD (1936-) radio and TV Broadcaster (ABC), Lodge Wyvern, Holds 50 Year Certificate

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Jennings Imrie Harris VD CMF (1871-1915) Solider and Accountant and Company Secretary. Secretary to the Hiram Lodge (1899), Honorary Secretary of United Service Institute (1901-1904), Brisbane Hospital Organiser (1907), Collector & Organiser of the General Hospital (1911) and General Secretary to the Ambulance Brigade (1911-1913). Served in Boer War & WW1. Arrived Gallipoli May 1915, KIA July 1915 joined Star of the Border No 293 IC at Stanthorpe, Norman No 25 GLQ and later Naval and Military Lodge No 51 GLQ

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Ross Tinkler, MBE (1933 – ) Solider. Malaya Emergency, 1948-1960, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV). Initiated NSW on 25 Oct 1954, affiliated The Army Lodge No 478 in Dec 1957, WM that Lodge 1981-82, holds 65 Year Jewel

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Thomas Christoph Layh CMG DSO and Bar, VD CMF (1885–1964) Bank Clerk and Soldier. Landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. His boat was one of four that mistakenly beached in front of the Turkish positions at Fisherman's Hut on North Beach. In 1918 arranged counter attack leading to hundreds of prisoners and the capture of 120 machine guns, awarded Bar to DSO for that action. Initiated Kitchener Lodge No 3402 UGLE, Affiliated Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 UGLV on 11 Dec 1919.

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Henry Peter Eller DSO VD CMF (c1880?- ??). Secretary, Manager and Soldier. Alfred Hospital Manager (1926-1946). President Melbourne Legacy (1924-25). 1st AIF. CMF Rifle Association. Initiated Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 (UGLV) on 11 Sept 1919.

·   Lieutenant-Colonel David Elder Reid DSO VD CMF. (c1864-1930) Company Director & Soldier. Served in Boer War. Twice Mayor of Gympie. PM of Lord Dufferin Lodge No 329 IC, which is now UGLQ No 48.

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Albert David Reid MC CMF MID(1886-1962) Grazier, Solider and Politician. Long public service commenced when 21 years old as a councilor at Murrumburrah. Dept President of Burrangong Shire Council (1924–27). Member CMF (1908–14) Served in WW1 and WW2, First and Second AIF. Served at Gallipoli from 12 May 1915 to 7 August 1915 and GSW ‘unfit for general service’. In January 1917 transferred on active service in the Palestine campaign and promoted to the rank of captain. As Captain of 4th Light Horse Regiment, 31 October 1917 led the Second Squadron of the 4th Light Horse in the charge at the Battle of Beersheba crossing Trench 1 and 2. 1941 dir. of recruiting NSW; AIF 1941-43. Minister for Agriculture (1938-41) CP Whip died in office

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsay Walter EDDY (1917-2006) Army Officer. Liverpool Lodge No 197 UGNSW&ACT . Affiliated Peace Commemoration Lodge No 519 UGLV (1963-77) and Boronia Lodge No 649 UGLV (1976-1996)

·   Wing Commander John Lloyd Waddy OBE DFC (1916-1987) WW2 fighter pilot, 6th Top Australian Air-Ace. Commanded the No. 80 Squadron in SW Pacific, where he was awarded the US Air Medal. One of eight senior pilots in the "Morotai Mutiny" April 1945 (later vindicated). MLA member Lodge Oxford No 85

·   Wing Commander William Lloyd Brill DSO, DFC with Bar (1916-1964), RAAF officer

·   Wing Commander Nick Leray-Meyer AM (1940-2023), president RAAF Vietnam Veterans Association Initiated in South Australia. Member Brunswick United Lodge No 924 UGLV. Initiated Woodville Lodge No 125 (SA) 21 August 1967

·   Major Alexander Thomas Paterson MC (1886-1950), soldier and businessman.

·   Major William Adolphus “Bill” Chaffey (1915-1987), farmer and politician MLA. Served in Z’ Special Unit 1944-45 Initiated in 1940

·   Major John William Hamilton (1870-1915), Civil Servant, Soldier, Staff Officer. KIA at Gallipoli 25 April. Australian Intelligence Corps. 6th Battalion 1st AIF at Gallipoli. As a Captain, helped escort Lord Kitchener visit to Australia in 1909/1910. Initiated Hiram No 9 QLD, Member UGLV - Windsor No 72 (1905-1908) Melbourne No 17 (1907-1908), Foundation Member Middle Park Lodge No 206 (1908-1911), Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 (1913- KIA).

·   Major George Albert Eddy CMF (1860-1900), Solider and Teacher. 2IC 1st Australian Regiment, KIA in Boer War at Battle of Rensburg (Hobkirk's Farm "Pink Hill"), 12 February 1900. Initiated Yarrowee Lodge No 10 (UGLV) on 17 June 1890, resigned 2 Aug 1894. Affiliated 9 Sept 1897 at Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 UGLV

·   Major George Bland Humble (1839-1930), teacher and Fremantle town clerk Humble Way Nth Freemantle is named for him.

·   Major Charles Reginald Miles Cox CMF (1889 - 1956), Manager. 1ST AIF. Interwar Commanded 24th Battalion as LtCol. Initiated in Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 on 12 Oct 1920.

·   Major Shannon Grills MID CMF (1888-?) 1st AIF. Landed Gallipoli 25 April and later France. Prominent local CMF Officer and member of Footscray Club. Initiated Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 (UGLV) on 11 Sept 1919

·   Major Henry John Frederick Coe CMF (Lt Col) VD (1894-1968) Army Officer, Salesman, Clerk, Cinema Projection Instructor, Christian Science Minister (In relation to Christian Science, often “Major Henry J. F. Coe” or “ Henry J. F. Coe”. Served WW1 & WW2. Landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. Initiated Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 (UGLV) 28 May 1920.

·   Major Hugh George McCullough (1907-1969) WW2 army officer and later store manager for G J Coles & Coy. Initiated The Lodge of Cordiality No 331 UGLV on 1 Nov 1947

·   Major Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith (1887-1975). Soldier, staff officer and commanded the famous “Great Emu War” of 1932. Served WW1, WW2, including Commander Brisbane Fortress in mid-1943. Civilian Advisor in Korea. Founding member United Service Lodge No 330 UGLV on 31 July 1923, Master that Lodge in 1930. Held 50 Year Jewel. Appears to have joined UGLV as MM from an unknown Constitution.

·   Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell CBE, DSO and Bar, ED. (1890–1966) MP. Chief Patron of the Rats of Tobruk Association. MLA

·   Brigadier Arthur Harry Langham Godfrey MC, DSO and Bar (1896-1942), army officer and auctioneer. Battalion Commander. Served in WW1 & WW2. Most senior AIF officer killed in action at El Alamein. .

·   Brigadier Sir Bernard Evans KBE DSO ED CMF (1905-1981) army officer, architect and builder. Melbourne City Councilor for Gipps ward (1949-73), Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1959-1961. Founded Bernard Evans & Associates, one of Melbourne’s Largest Architectural Firms. Initiated St Kilda Lodge No 303 UGLV on 2 Oct 1929, Foundation Member Rhetoric Lodge of Communication No 831, received 50 Year Jewel.

·   Brigadier Sir William Henry Hall KBE DSO ED (1906-1998) Victorian RSL President 1964-75 and National President 1975-78

·   Brigadier Sir George Hodges Knox KBE, CMG, ED, (1885- 1960) orchardist, soldier and politician, philanthropist MLA, whom the Shire of Knox, later to be known as the City of Knox was named after him. Member Peace and Loyalty UGLV Battalion Commander of 23rd Battalion from August at Gallipoli. Speaker of the House. Initiated Clarke or Peace and Loyalty Lodge UGLV but certainly Initiated in 1922

·   Brigadier Keith Vincent Rossi AM OBE RFD ED (1921-2016) Served in WW2 and in Vietnam. Active in the RSL, Legacy and VVAA. 60 Year Bar UGLV. WM United Service Lodge 1984/85 (UGLV). Initiated City of Collingwood Lodge No 464 (UGLV) in 1948.

·   Brigadier Keith Royce Colwell CBE (1919- ) Initiated in Stanley Lodge No. 37 in Brisbane in 1944. 1954 Keith affiliated with The Army Lodge No 478 UGLV in 1954. Held a duel 70 Year Jewels UGLV and UGLQ. Coast Watcher in WW2

·   Brigadier Graeme Benjamin Standish AM RFD ED (c1933-). Regimental Commander. Senior Instructor Operations at the Reserve Command and Staff College 1981/82, the Chief of Staff (Army Reserve) at Third Division 1984/85 and the Commander of the Third Training Group 1986 to 1988. Member United Service Lodge No 330 UGLV. Holds 60 Year Jewel. Initiated Bentleigh Lodge No 482 UGLV on 3 July 1958

·   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. President Legacy Club of Melbourne (1959), a member and trustee of the Rats of Tobruk Association and president of the Nurses Memorial Centre 1966-71. Initiated Lombard Lodge No 357 UGLV on 27 Sept 1933, Foundation Member Henley No 547 UGLV

·   Captain James Croker Ferguson, JP (c1830-1891) “.one of the most expert riflemen in the colony”

·   Captain Jack Hayward Watson AM ISO KStJ, JP, (1916-2001) army officer and lawyer, prosecutor of Japanese War Criminals Rabaul & Wewak, Area Commissioner NSW Scouts (1948-64), Registrar General NSW (1958-77)

·   Captain Robert Russell Fullarton (1829-1895), naval officer and public servant. Naval Commander (all Naval Reserves) Melbourne Harbour Master

·   Captain Frank Reid Tubb MC (1880-1952). Boer War & WW1 Soldier. MC; 7th Battalion, Military Cross fighting around Pozieres in August 1916. See also P00735.014. (AWM) Brother of Frederick H Tubb, VC

·   Lieutenant William Sinclair MM MC (1887-1959), soldier, boxmaker and sales representative

·   Lieutenant Percy Muir Dun MC & Bar. M.M (1894-1971), soldier, sawmill manager and grazier. Wounded on four separate occasions, often charging machine gun nests, a battalion sergeant stated: 'Lieutenant Dun really deserved the VC; his men would follow him anywhere'

·   Lieutenant James Anderson Kerr Johnston CMF (1883-1915) Fitter & Locomotive Engineer. Died of Wounds received in action. Member Loyal Orange Lodge No 92 (LOL). Initiated Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 (UGLV) on 14 July 1910.

·   Flying Officer Noel William Warren (1918-1994) Grand Master GL of NSW&ACT (1976-80 ) Initiated 3 Oct 1947 in Lodge Torchbearer No 638

·   Flying Officer Ernest “Sandy” McKenzie (1923-2012), engineer, WW2 pilot Hurricanes and Thunderbolts in Burma (1944-45), initiated Lodge Temperance No 179 on 27 May 1947, WM that Lodge 1974-75

·   Corporal Sir Raymond “Bob” Huish CBE (1898-1970), ex-servicemen's leader and businessman. WWI veteran and RSL Queensland Branch President 1930-1967; founder of the Sir Raymond Huish Award for treatment of veterans mental health and behavioral problems. President Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Imperial League of Australia . Member AIF Memorial Lodge No 289

·   Bruce Carlyle Ruxton MBE OBE AM (1926-2011), President of Victorian RSL 1979-2002. Initiated 20 March 1953 in Wilsmere Lodge No 645 UGLV

·   John Alexander Watson DSO (1891-1980), grocer, insurance agent and army officer. Led the logistics during the siege at Tobruk . WM of No 266 (UGLV) in 1929. Awarded 50 Year Jewel in Army Lodge No 478 UGLV in 1971 Initiated Duke of Brunswick Lodge No 132 in 1919..

·   John Henry Lockett OAM known as “Jack Lockett” (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. Initiated Ouyen Lodge No 249 on 15 August 1921

·   The Rev. Clive Mortimer Cox MID (1903-1942), Presbyterian Minister of Religion, CMF & Army Chaplain. Died of stomach GSW received on Kokoda Track died 28 Dec 1942, oral history says wounded Christmas Day tending troops. Buried Bomana War Cemetery, Port Moresby. Initiation date is 23 March 1932, either in Murray Bridge Lodge No 44 SAC or Portland Lodge No 6 UGLV.

  Return to Table of Contents 

Famous Australian Freemasons; Sport

·   Sir Donald Bradman AC (1908-2001), world famous Australian cricketer . Initiated Lodge Tarbolton No 12 UGLNSW 26 Nov 1929.

·   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 WM Lodge Killara No 670 (1955-56), Foundation Master Lodge Cricket No 931 (1959-60)

·   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

·   William Harold “Bill” Ponsford MBE (1900-1991), test cricketer. The Ponsford Stand at the MCG is named for him. Initiated 11 Sept 1922 in Rechab Lodge No 224 UGLV

·   Charles Brownlow (1861-1924) football, Brownlow Medal is named after him. Unity and Prudence Lodge initiated in 1885

·   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

·   Edward “Eddie” Charlton AM (1929-2004) professional snooker and billiards champion. Initiated into Lodge Swansea No 755 UGL of NSW&ACT 14 July 1961.

·   Walter Albert Lindrum CBE OBE (1898 - 1960) professional billiards player. Initiated Crimea Lodge No 432 8 Oct 1934 and remained a member until his death

·   Jack Plummer, sprinter, Australian 1500m track champion and also at Auckland 1950 Empire Games

·   Aaron Treve “Tommy” Woodcock (1905-1985), horseracing, Australian handler of the racehorse Phar Lap Initiated 11 Nov 1943 in Smithfield Lodge No 414 UGLV

·   Ray Land, who competed in sprints and relays at Melbourne Olympics1956

·   Vic Patrick born Victor Patrick Lucca (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, WM that Lodge 1961-62, held RTWBro PAGM

·   Mickey “Roy” Tollis (1927 – 2007), boxer

·   Herbert Henry “Dally” Messenger (1883-1959), Rugby player. Considered one of Rudby’s greats and known as “The Master”. Initiated at Lodge Thespian No 265 on 26 Feb 1915

·   William John “Nipper” Truscott (1886-1966), footballer inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996

·   Deverick John “Mick” Cronin (1911-1979), Australian Rules footballer and commentator

·   William Hender Hellings, swimmer one of the founders of the NSW Swimming Association

·   John Hill (b1925?), member Victorian Boxing Hall of Fame, 50 Year Jewel holder.

·   Edgar Laurence “Dunc” Grey (1906-1996), Olympic bicyclist

·   Mervyn Thomas “Merv” 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 (1976-79).

·   William Morris “Bill” Lawry AM (1937- ) cricketer initiated Manangatang Lodge 705 UGLV in 1962 or Sportsman Loge No 543 UGLV in 1962

·   Arthur Theordore Wallance “Wally” Grout (1927-1968), test cricketer

·   Charles George "Charlie" Macartney (1886 –1958) cricketer known as "The Governor-General". Played in 35 Tests between 1907 and 1926. “

·   Stanley Rupert Rowley (1876-1924), Olympic Sprinter Paris 1900, member Lodge Austral

·   Leo Ejner Jensen (1912-1978), wrestler and physiotherapist. Australian Heavy Weight Champion 1952

·   Dr William Caldwell McClelland CBE (1875-1957) Melbourne Football Club captain 1901-04, President of the VFL in 1926-55 and of the Melbourne Cricket Club in 1944-57 Australian Football Hall of Fame. Founding Member Brighton Grammarians No 433. Initiated Brighton-Lowry Lodge No 37 UGLV on 26 Oct 1910

·   Glyn de Villiers Bosisto MBE (1899-1990). Lawn Bowls, “created so many records that he was dubbed the (Sir Donald) `Bradman of bowls’ Member Sir Francis Drake No 770 UGLV and prior, member of Sirus 292 NSW Const.

·   Robert “Bob” Jones (1952-) Racing Car Driver & Businessman, Grand Master of Victoria , V8s at Sandown and Bathurst represented Victoria in basketball and played for Williamstown in the VFA and South Melbourne under-19s in the VFL

·   Arthur Tunstall OBE (1922-2016), Boxing & Sports Administration.

·   John James “Jack” Lyons (1863-1927), state and international cricket batsman, household name.

·       Peter Jackson aka "Black Prince" aka “'Peter the Great'” (3 July 1861 – 13 July 1901) “Australian pugilist” “a man of colour” heavy weight champion of Australia. Buried in The Brisbane General Cemetery also known as Toowong Cemetery, A magnificent tomb was erected by subscription with the words, 'This was a man'.

·   Alexander Chalmers “Alec” Bannerman (1854-1924) test cricket. Initiated 12 September 1894 Paddington Ionic Lodge No 18 NSW

·   William “Bill” Beach (1850-1935) sculler, won International Sweepstake London 1886 & world champion seven times and retired undefeated. Initiated 21 April 1885 in Lodge Tarbolton No 377 SC, member several lodges. Foundation member Lodge King Edward, Dapto

·   Arthur Robert Morris MBE (1922-2015) test cricketer Initiated 25 Feb 1948 in Lodge Rockdale No 574 NSW

·   Donald “Don” Tallon (1916-1984) test cricketer; wicketkeeper. “..integral member of the 1948 Australian team that he was named one of Wisden’s five cricketers of the year. Sir Donald Bradman regarded Tallon as a great wicket-keeper and one of the best he had seen”. Initiated 17 June 1976 in Acacia Lodge No 330 GLQLD

·   Geoffrey Dymock OAM (1945-) test cricketer

·   Arthur Alfred Mailey (1886-1967), test cricketer, bowler, cartoonist and journalist

·   Alan Keith Davidson AM MBE (1929-) test cricketer& President NSW Cricket Association. Initiated 28 January 1957 in Lodge Empire Temperance No 423 NSWGL. Also member Lodge Manoora Technology No 432.

·   Jack Huxtable OAM, “Yallourn Football Club Stalwart”, OAM for service to the sport of Australian Rules football, and to the community of Morwell. AFL Victoria Country Life Member. Member Lodge Cornucopia No 927 UGLV

·       William George Arthur “Bill” Redmond (1927- ), football, in 2019 was the last surviving member appearing in the Carlton 1947 Football Premiership Team Photo. Golden and Corinthian Lodge No 7, Initiated West Melbourne No 231 UGLV

·       Peter George Norman (1942-2006) Australian track athlete. Won the silver medal in the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, with a time of 20.06 seconds, remains an Oceania record. Five-time national 200-metres champion. Best known as the third athlete pictured in the famous 1968 Olympics Black Power salute photograph, which occurred during the medal ceremony for the 200-metre event. Initiated Sunshine Lodge No 226 UGLV 4 Sept 1972

·   Gordon George “George” Avery (1925-2006) Olympian, Silver Medalist Summer Olympics London 1948

·   Sir Kenneth George Luke CMG (1896-1971) manufacturer & football administration. Carlton President (1938 - 1955), VFL President (1956 - 1971). Member Australian Football Hall of Fame. A stand at Waverley Park and Boulevard in Mulgrave are named after him. Member Sportsman Lodge No 543 UGLV. Initiated Pentalpha Lodge No 90 UGLV on 28 Feb 1918 and received his 50 Year Jewel in that Lodge in 1968.

·   Richard Allan “Dick” French (1938-) cricket umpire

·   Leonard Victor Maddocks (1926-2016) test cricketer. Initiated 25 July 1948 in Lodge Fortitude No 443 UGLV, resigned April 1974.

·   Robert Baddeley “Bobby” Simpson AO (1936-) cricket

·   Henry James Herbert Scott (1858 - 1910), cricketer and physician, magistrate, Mayor of Scone in 1893-97 and 1899-1900. Captained Australian Cricket Team in England in 1886

·   Brighton John Diggins (1906-1971) football. Initiated Albert Park Lodge No 262 on 15 Sept 1936. Foundation member Sportsman Lodge No 543

·   Richard Sylvanus "Dick" Reynolds (1915-2002) “King Richard”. Football Player (AFL) Essendon Football Club. Reynolds is one of four footballers to have won three Brownlow Medals. Initiated City of Essendon No 238 UGLV on 14 August 1940 (resigned in 1976 as MM)

·   Howard Clement Okey (1906 - 1985) Essendon Football Club Player (AFL) & Committee Member. Initiated Lodge Deeside No 487 UGLV on 20 Jan 1938

·   Ambrose Harold Palmer MBE (1910-1990), champion boxer, boxing trainer and Australian rules footballer. At 15 became Victorian amateur welterweight champion. Coached the Australian team at Melbourne Olympic Games (1956), by which time “he was acknowledged to be the doyen of his trade”. Coached Johnny Famechon. Played for Footscray in the VFL. Inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 & Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003. Initiated Concord Lodge No 234 (UGLV) 19 Nov 1938, Resigned June 1975

·   Neil Edwin Roberts (1933-) football (VFL), Brownlow Medalist 1958. Initiated Sportsman Lodge No 543 UGLV 14 August 1961. Resigned June 1978. Officer in charge of Mawson base, Antarctica, 1971–1973, Silver Polar Medal.

 Return to Table of Contents  

Famous Australian Freemasons; Actors, Entertainers, Radio & Musicians

·   "Smokey Dawson" born Herbert Henry MBE AM (1913 –2008), country music entertainer and community leader

·   Graham Kennedy AO (1934-2005), entertainer and "King of Television". Won 5 Gold Logie Awards. Initiated St. Kilda Lodge No 303, 1955

·   "Chips Rafferty" born John William Pilbeam Goffage (1909-1971) Film actor. Initiated at Lodge Literature No 500 UGLNSW in 1957

·   Charles "Bud" Tingwell AM (1923-2009) actor and spitfire pilot. Initiated Burwood Lodge No 785 on 27 Jan 1950

·   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

·   Harry Van Der Sluys, aka "Roy Rene Mo (1892-1954) better known as “Mo” the clown. Lodge Thespian No 256 NSW Australia

·   Nathan Phillips better known as “Stiffy” the clown (?-1932), Lodge Thespian No 256 NSW

·   Raymond Charles "Ray" Barrett (1927 –2009) movie actor and voice of John Tracey in “Thunderbirds”. Initiated in 1949 in Empire Lodge No.197 UGLQ

·        Philip Peter Jacob Wirth (1864-1937) bandsman and circus proprietor, with his brother, founded Wirth Bros Ltd Circus (1913-1963)

·   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, Past Master of the Duke of Leinster Lodge Member of the Adelaide City Council.

·   Walter Malcolm Neil McEachern (1883-1945) singer, one half of the comic musical duo Mr Flotsam and Mr Jetsam . Toured with Nellie Melba

·   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

·   William St John M Caws (W. St. John M. CAWS) (c1840-1909), first secretary of the Musical Society of Victoria, of which he was one of the founders Lodge Judah No 20 UGLV St Clair Lodge No 43 UGLV, former Lodge St Clair No 416 SC

·   Samuel Kaye (1829-1895), 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. Kaye’s Rocks on Brisbane River are named after him.

·   Henry (de) Burgh, (1841-1869?) Amateur vocalist, pianist, composer

·   Edward Ralph de Tisne (1890-1931) American Actor, Initiated into Freemasonry in Thespian Lodge No 256, UGL of NSW on November 22, 1921, later affiliated with Thespian Lodge No 268 in Brisbane 1922

·   William Ellsworth Robinson “Chung Ling Soo“ aka “Ching Ling Soo” (1861-1918) international “Chinese” magician, his death on stage was widely reported in Australia, Lodge Thespian No 256 NSW

·   Lancelot Sherlock Fitzgerald aka Lance Vane (1884-1942) actor. Initiated Thespian No. 268 UGLQ December 7, 1922, later affiliated with Thespian Lodge No 256 UGLNSW

·   Hugh Huxham - English actor, vaudevillian, politician, leader Hugh Huxham's Serenaders, Thespian Lodge No 73 QC

·   Clarence Alphonse Lambert aka Lou Vernon (1888-1971), screen, stage and radio actor and entertainer, appeared in Bonanza and Gunsmoke, and Australian TV dramas Homicide, Division 4 and movies such as The Power and the Glory (1940) and “On the Beech” 1959. Initiated Thespian Lodge No 268, UGLQ December 1919

·   Claude Holland (1901-1984), Australian actor, movie star, broadcaster, radio station manager, member Hugh Huxham's Serenaders. Initiated Thespian Lodge No 268 UGLQ on November 1, 1923.

·   John Vyvyan Ormonde Dobbie (1903-1952), Australian actor, movie star, broadcaster, auctioneer . Leading parting in “His Royal Highness” 1932, Australia's first musical film Initiated Thespian Lodge No 268 on 3 May 1945

·   Lt George Patrick “Pat” Hanna (1888-1973), New Zealand army officer, actor, movie star, cartoonist. Initiated into Thespian Lodge No 268 UGLQ on July 3, 1924

·   Arthur Phillips Hemsley (1891-1954) actor, comic and radio, part of comic act “Brull & Hemsley”. Initiated Thespian Lodge No 268, UGLQ 1920

·   Ronald William “Ron” Blaskett (1922-2018), television pioneer, ventriloquist & puppeteer of “Gerry Gee” a famous Australian ventriloquist’s doll and star of the “Tarax Show” 1958- 1964 on Channel 9. Initiated Lodge Companionship No 513 UGLV 17 April 1947, resigned 17 Nov 1966 GL Certificate No. 124,577

·   Michael Schiavello (1975- ) Australian sports commentator . Initiated in 2009 in Deepdene-Balwyn Lodge No 275 UGLV

·   Garnet Hannell Carroll, OBE (1902-1964) actor, theatrical entrepreneur, theatre manager and owner (Roxy Theatre). Initiated 22 Sept 1931 into Lodge Orpheus No 394 UGLV

·   Oliver John Nilsen CBE JP (1884-1977), radio broadcaster, electrical engineer. Lord Mayor of Melbourne (1951). Of 3UZ radio station fame. Granted the first commercial broadcasting license in Victoria (1925). Initiated North Suburban No 112 UGLV on 10 April 1912, Installed WM Princes Hill No 294 in 1924, 50 Year Jewel and 60 Year Bar North Suburban No 112 UGLV .

·   William Chapman (1820-1887) postman, musician and composer “the father of the postman (Adelaide)” Member Lodge of Harmony No 3

 Return to Table of Contents  

Famous Australian Freemasons; Architects & Builders

Several noted architects and builders appear in other sections.

Famous Australian Freemasons; Architects

·   Sir Francis Howard Greenway (1777-1837), colonial era architect (Also under convicts) His image was on the old $10 Australian Bank note (see convict section for footnotes).

·   Eric Hughes (1901-1964) President Royal Victorian Institute of Architects 20th Grand Master UGLV 1963-1964 Initiated Lodge Amity 22 Feb 1934

·   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. ()

·   James Cowlishaw JP (1834-1929), architect, newspaper proprietor, director and politician Foundation Officer (Steward) Provincial Grand Lodge Queensland EC. MLC 1878-1922. Noted buildings, Government House Sydney Commercial Bank of Sydney Queen Street, Brisbane, warehouse Alexander Stewart & Sons 8 Mclachlan Street, Fortitude Valley, Great Hall Boys' Grammar School and other large edifice. Heritage listed buildings, Fortitude Valley Methodist Church (1870), Hanworth , East Brisbane, Oakwal & Wilston House Brisbane. Director Brisbane Courier, Managing director Brisbane Telegraph in 1878. Chairman Telegraph Newspaper Co (1879-1885) . Anti-Federation. Trustee Brisbane Cemetery (1870-1929).

·       John Petrie (1822-1992), architect, politician, first Mayor of Brisbane , active member of the first Masonic lodge in Queensland. One of five Queenslanders to be regularly initiated into a Queensland Lodge on 10 Aug 1859

·   Percy William Harrison (1864-1951) notable architect , President of WAIA from 1907-1909

·   Lieutenant-General Sir Joseph John 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 Initiated Lodge of Unity 2452 EC in 1892

·   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

·   Thomas English (1819-1884). Mayor of Gawler. MLC Colonial Architect Friendship Lodge No 1 SAC

·   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.

·   Robert Flack Ricards (c 1866-1938, 72 when he died), Hobart architect

·   Lange Leopold Powell (1886-1938), architect

·   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

·   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)

·   John Burcham Clamp (1869-1931), architect & Indigenous Rights supporter

·   Francis Ernest Stowe (c1867-1936) Architect and mechanical engineer. Founder and Principal Sydney Marine and General Engineers College. Designed Baulkham Hills Masonic School, Ashfield Masonic Hospital, North Sydney, Crows Nest, Newtown & Glen Innes Masonic Temples. Designed and installed Rockhampton and Balmaine Tramway Systems. Initiated 1897, Master Lodge Unity in 1915

·       John Holderness Bates (c1861-1923) Architect, Mayor of Forbes

·       William Henry Ellerker JP (1837?-1891) architect, politician, Mayor of St Kilda Signed contract on new Princess Bridge Melbourne, Initiated 1859

·       Thomas Bennet Dunstan Reynolds MM (1898-1949) Architect. Designed Ivalda Masonic Temple and Egyptian Revival Emulation Hall in Canterbury & Plaza Theatre Kyabram

·       John Maxwell “Max” Freeland DFC AM (1920-1983), Architect, Author, 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 No 617 on 11 March 1953

·   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 Designed Coburg soldier's memorial and Town Hall. Initiated Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 UGLV on 14 July 1892

·   William Atkins Dalton (1846-1921) architect. Partner Blackwell & Dalton, architects. Designed Masonic Club in Seymour (Vic, 1901) & “Loco Hall” (1914) 570 Victoria Street in North Melbourne for the Australian Federation of Locomotive Enginemen. Hotel Metropole 377 Bourke Street, Melbourne (1891, demolished 1970’s) EASTCOURT (1889, VHR H0087) 54 Powlett Street East Melbourne. Initiated Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 (UGLV) on 11 Sept 1890

Famous Australian Freemasons; Builders

·   Sir Albert Victor Jennings (1896-1993), building industries entrepreneur & contractor. Founded A V Jennings Group Ltd. During the 1960s Jennings Industries was Australia’s largest home builder with branches in each State and the Australian Capital Territory. Active in the Master Builders’ Association of Victoria (council member 1943–71), Master Builders’ Federation of Australia (MBFA) (life member 1972), and Australian Institute of Building (president 1964–66). Served on the Commonwealth Building Research and Development Advisory Committee (1949–70), Manufacturing Industries Advisory Council (1962–72), and Metric Conversion Board (1970–72). Played a major role in research of building materials and techniques. In 1969 he was knighted and the following year he was awarded the AIB medal. Initiated on 15 Sept 1936 into Oakleigh Lodge No 126 (UGLV)

·   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

·   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

·   Arthur George Stokes (c1861- 1936) Hobart Councilor Master Builder

 Return to Table of Contents 

Famous Australian Freemasons; Artists

·   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 into Lodge Arboreal No 641 UGLV, received a 50 Year Jewel of Service in the Craft.

·   Carl Magnus Oscar Friström (1856-1918),professional painter, President New Society of Artists. Best known for painting the First Nation People of Australia.

·   George Frederick Harris (1856 - 1924), artist

·   Harry Pelling Gill (1855-1916), painter, art curator and teacher,

·   James Ashton (1859-1935), artist. President (Royal) South Australian Society of Arts

·   Philip Blashki, born Favel Wagczewski (1837-1916) silversmith. Initiated Lodge Judah (Victoria) circa 1865

·   Abraham Abrahams (1813-1892) Painter & prominent philanthropist

·   Charles Francis Summers PJGD (1858-1945), sculptor. (Son of famous sculptor and artist Charles H Summers who might be UGLE member ) C F Summers work is in the Ballarat gardens and Rotorua, amongst other locations, and later became UGLV Librarian for many years at Collins Street. Member Metropolitan Lodge No 85 UGLV.

Famous Australian Freemasons; Aviation

·   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. This apron was presented by his family to The AIF Memorial Lodge No 289 UGLQ who care for it. Initiated at Gascoyne Lodge on 9 April 1925.

·   Lawrence Hargrave (1850-1915) aviation pioneer . His image was on the old $20 paper Australian Bank Note. Initiated at United Service Lodge of New South Wales No 937 EC on 2 April 1877

·   Allan Robert Stanley Vickers, flying doctor, see the Medicine section.

·   Lieutenant Dr George Pinnock Merz MID CMF (1891- 1915), Doctor and Pilot. As Dux, one of the first four to graduate as a military pilot in Australia in November 1914. KIA in Iraq 30 July 1915, First death of an Australian airman in war. Australia’s first military aviation medical officer. Initiated in Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 (UGLV) on 15 May 1915 KIA as EA on 30 July same year.

·   Sir Reginald Myles “Reg” Ansett (1909-1981), aviator and businessman . Held Australian pilot’s license number 419 & founded Ansett Airways Ltd

·   Sir Ross Macpherson Smith (1892 – 1922) & Sir Keith Macpherson Smith (1890 –1955). Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC & two Bars, AFC (1892 – 1922) & Sir Keith Macpherson Smith KBE (1890 –1955) both Australian aviators and the first pilots to fly from England to Australia (18,250 kms, 11,340 miles) in 1919 which was honoured with Knighthoods and 1994 Australian 42 cent stamp.. Ross landed at Gallipoli 13 May 1915, in July 1917 transferred to the Australian Flying Corps. Keith, rejected from the AIF on medical grounds, flew to England and joined Royal Flying Corp July 1917. Brothers became airmen within weeks of each other, while Ross saw active air service of distinction in WW1, Keith did not fly in combat. In 1922 Ross and Keith planned to fly around the world in a Vickers Viking amphibian but Ross and crew member Bennett were killed test-flying the plane near London. Keith, who arrived late for the test flight witnessed the accident. Keith was Director of Qantas Empire Ltd & Tasman Empire Airways Ltd. Both were initiated together on 29 August 1921 in Motherland Lodge No 3861 EC in London.

·   Lt James Mallett (Jim) Bennett (1894-1922), aviator and mechanic, killed with Sir Ross Smith in plane crash 1922

·   John Alfred North MBE ED (c1906 -?). Army Officer. Member Victorian Development Corporation (1973) . Commercial Manager Ansett Airlines of Australia. Initiated United Service Lodge No 330 on 8 April 1946 (Master that Lodge 14 Oct 1957)

 Return to Table of Contents 

Famous Australian Freemasons; Business People & Inventors

·   James Boag (c.1822-1890) brewer, founded “J. Boag & Son” in February 1883

·   George James Coles CBE (1885 - 1977), businessman and philanthropist. Founded the Coles Group. Initiated in Lodge Lowan 107, then joined Geelong Unity and Prudence

·   Thomas Mayne (1901-1995) developed the drink "Milo" still sold today. Initiated into Lodge King Edward No 189 UGLV.

·   Harry Melbourne (1913-2007) invented the "Freddo Frog" chocolate. Initiated into Freemasonry at Victoria Park Lodge No 388 UGLV on 24 April 1944.

·   Frederick Augustus Bolles Peters (1836-1937) founded Peter's Ice-cream. Initiated into Terre Coupee Lodge No 204 Grand Lodge of Indiana on 27 Dec 1890 affiliated Lodge Washington H Soul No 399 and remained a member until he died

·   Fred Walker (1884-1935) created "Vegemite" spread. Initiated at Austral Temple Lodge No 110 UGLV on 9 July 1919

·   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.

·   Mervyn Richardson (1893-1972) invented the Victa Lawn Mower. Initiated Lodge Wentworth No 89 on 6 Feb 1945.

·   Joseph Best (1830-1887) and Henry Best (1832-1913), vignerons, founded the vineyard that today trades as “Seppelts Great Western Wines”

·   Sir James Gilbert Hardy Kt OBE PDGM (1932- ) winemaker and businessman noted for his yachting achievements. Initiated Lodge City of Sydney No 952 on 21 November 1962 Sir James Hardy Lodge No 1046 GLNSW&ACT is named in his honour and he is the Patron of the same

·   Robert Ian “Bob” Oatley AO BEM (1928-2016) businessman, philanthropist, wine maker, yacht racer, owner of multiple Sydney/Hobart winner ‘Wild Oats’, established the Rosemount winery in the Hunter Valley (1969), BEM for service to the coffee industry in Papua New Guinea, number 49 on 2015 BRW Rich List, with an estimated wealth of $1 billion. Member & Patron of Sir James Hard Lodge No 1046 GLNSW&ACT , member Lodge Middle Harbour No 85

·   George Adams (1839-1904), publican and lottery promoter, founder of Tattersalls. Initiated Lodge Samaritan 294 IC

·   Sir Andrew Bruce “Bruce” Small (1895–1980) businessman, bicycle manufacturer, community worker, land developer and politician. Developed Malvern Star Bicycles into a household name. Salvation Army Member and bandsman. Director of Association for the Blind of Victoria for twenty-five years and its President (1955-64). Mayor of the City of the Gold Coast, MLA. Initiated Malvern Lodge No 121 UGLV on 25 Feb 1918. Founding member of Lodge Heyington No 576 UGLV where he was WM in 1948

·   Sir Edward John Lees Hallstrom (1886-1970) famous philanthropist and invented the "Silent Knight Refrigerator". Initiated at Lodge Roseville No 344 ULGNSW on 24 Aug 1922

·   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

·   William Dymock (1861-1900) bookseller Initiated 12 January 1886 in Empress of India Lodge No 176 EC (later No 57 NSW)

·   John Ellis Gowing (1835-1908) draper, retailer & “gentlemen outfitter” founded the Sydney store “Gowings” in 1868, Gowings Bros Ltd still operates. WM of Prince Alfred No 94 officiated at his funeral, Gowing was a founding member & PM of that Lodge. Member Australia Lodge (now) No 3

·       Alfred Edward Gerard (1877-1950), electrician and businessman, Aboriginal welfare worker, Methodist Layman. Founder of Gerard & Goodman and now known as Clipsal

·   William Knox (1850-1913), businessman, mining director and politician. MLA, MLC. 1885 secretary Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd “Generally regarded as the brains behind BHP” Sat on board of Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd & BHP. President Melbourne Chamber of Commerce 1904-07. Member Melbourne Stock Exchange from 1888. Founder of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Malvern Shire councilor & President. Declined a Knighthood.

·   Sir Robert Wilson Knox (1890-1973) businessman & Company Director. First President Australian Association of British Manufactures 1919-20, President Melbourne Chamber of Commerce and other bodies. Held 50 Year Jewel and died a Freemason. Initiated Clarke Lodge No 98 UGLV on 6 Oct 1918.

·   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

·   John Crann (1848-1935), sugar refiner, one of the Cranns of Robert Cran & Co.

·   William James “Bill” Proud (1871-1931), jeweler founded “Prouds the Jewellers“

·   Frank Whiddon (1877- 1947). With this brother, founded Whiddon Bros Ltd. Initiated into Lodge Neutral Bay No. 267. Grand Master UGLNSW 1945.

·   Henry Perdriau (1845-1935), pioneer rubber merchant and manufacturer. Director Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber Co. Ltd.

·   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

·   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. Past Master of the Lodge of Hope

·   Charles Andrew Ord MBE. (1905-1977), banker and stockbroker. Philanthropist. 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

·   Hugo Carl Emil Muecke (1842-1929), MLC MLA. 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). Naturalized but still interned in April 1916 at Fort Largs District Grand Master SC in SA

·   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

·   Thomas Swallow (1823-1890) businessman, manufacturer, mechanical inventor, member 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.

·   Sir Roderick William Miller CBE (1911-1971), company director, transport pioneer. Pioneered the coal trade with Japan (and later with Europe)

·   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.

·   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.

·   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.

·   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.. )

·   Thomas Alison Scott (1777?-1881), father of the Australian sugar and banana industries, Member Australian Social Lodge No 260 IC

·   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.

·   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.

·   Alfred Henry Massina (1834-1917), printer & publisher. Published Australian Journal. Funded Marcus Clarke visiting Tasmania (1869) to gather material for Term of His Natural Life which Australian Journal commenced serialized publication 1870. A. H. Massina & Co. installed Victoria's first linotype machine in 1894. It’s worth being proven; the machine was introduced to the Herald in 1895 Director ‘Herald’ and ‘Weekly Times’. Published Adam Lindsay Gordon's poems

·       William “Billy” Guyatt (1920-1989). Champion bicyclist, later opened Billy Guyatt’s Electrical Stores

·   Archibald Aitken son of Thomas Aitken (1821-1884) who founded Victoria Pde Brewery where Victoria Bitter Beer was first made by Thomas and would later be a key site of Carlton United Brewery (CUB). Archibald, Initiated Fitzroy Lodge on 17 July 1884. Also a member of Coppin Lodge. Snr Grand Warden, GLV, 1887. Grand Master of the Knights Templar 28/03/1889

·   George Edwin Emry CMG (1859-1937) GM State Savings Bank 1897-1929, Grand Master UGLV 1907-8, Important Rotarian

·   Hugh Victor McKay CBE (1865-1926) inventor, industrialist, owner of the Sunshine Harvester Works. Installed as Worshipful Master of Sunshine Masonic Lodge No 226 in 1913 Lost Arbitration in 1907 which resulted in the basic wage. Director BHP Owned Rupertswood Initiated 4 August 1902 in Albert Victor Lodge No 117 UGLV

·   Sir William Charles Angliss (1865-1957) butcher, pastoralist, pioneer meat exporter, businessman, politician and philanthropist. MLC. Started William Angliss Food Trades School now known as the William Angliss Institute of TAFE Initiated Empire Lodge No 150 UGLV on 16 Sept 1890. Foundation member Smithfield Lodge No 414 UGLV on 30 Aug 1926, also joined Metropolitan Lodge No 82 on 26 Dec 1907

·   Robert James Gilbertson (c1881/2?-1940), owned one of the largest chain of butchers in Victoria. Member Essendon Maribyrnong Temperance Lodge No 269 UGLV, Mayor of Essendon.

·   Wilhelm Rudolph Waldemar “William” Koch (1874-1952), architect. Founding member and president (1913-14, 1925-26) of the Tasmanian Institute of Architects. Building surveyor for Hobart City Council (1929). Active in Australian Native Association. Past Master of the Tasmanian Union Masonic Lodge

·   Arthur James Drysdale (1887-1971), financier, pastoralist, lottery promoter “”Lottery Czar” Tasmania, brought Tattersall's lotteries from Tasmania to Victoria in 1954

·   Sir Walter John “Wally” Burnett (1921-2016 ), pharmacist, businessman, Rotarian, President Queensland’s Royal National Association, Grand Master UGLQLD 1983-86. Initiated 8 March 1944 into Kaye Lodge No 234 UGLQLD

·   Sir Charles Henry Goode (1827-1922), merchant and philanthropist MLA MLC. “Prince of Philanthropists”. Founding member the Royal Institution for the Blind in 1884, and its only president until 1922. Founder of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission and of the Adelaide Children's Hospital. Initiated 11 August 1890 in Lodge St Alban No 38 SAC.

·   Sir Frank Schofield McDowell (1889-1980) retailer, retail chain store owner, Rotarian, Grand Master NSW 1947-51. Initiated 12 Dec 1917 in Lodge Chatswood No 285 GLNSW, Past Master that Lodge. Prime mover in establishing Frank Whiddon Masonic Homes (for the aged).

·   Trevor Brian Prescott AM (1928-1987) businessman and Company Director, Grand Master SA 1982-86. Initiated 5 Sept 1956 in Lewis Lodge of St Peter’s No 144 GLSA&NT

·   Owen Duncan Redman (1919-1989) vintner and winemaker, founded Redman Winery premier producer of red wine. Grand Master SA 1986-88. Initiated 24 April 1956 in Penola Lodge No 181 SA, Past Master that lodge

·   Andrew Douglas Young (1881-1950) stockbroker and company director. President Adelaide Stock Exchange 1930-1946. Grand Master UGLSA 1939-40 & 1944-45 Pro Grand Master 1940-1944.. Initiated 22 Dec 1903 into St Andrews Lodge No 19 GLSA

·   Ivan Wade OBE (1914 - ??) Meat Merchant & Industry. First State, and then Federal President Meat and Allied Trades Federation. Community and Charity worker and member of Lions & Rotary. Mayor of Kew twice (. Initiated Centennial Lodge No 135 on 17 August 1937, resigned 16 June 1942, joined Hickford Lodge No 476 on 7 July 1942, resigned 7 Aug 1945, foundation member of Freedom Lodge No 550 on 29 Nov 1943, resigned 26 Sept 1957, joined Lodge of Good Approach No 680 on 1 Aug 1957, resigned 4 March 1965, joined Smithfield Lodge No 414 on 24 June 1964.

·   Ross Thomas Shelmerdine CMG (c1922-1979). Manufacturer, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Winery Founder. Co-Founded Mitchelton Winery. (Married Marigold Merlyn Baillieu Southey “Lady Southey”, younger daughter and fourth child of the late Sidney Myer (Freemason) and Dame Merlyn Myer DBE in 1950). Initiated into Old Melbournians Lodge No 317 (UGLV) on 9 Sept 1949

·   Colin Thomas Preece (1903-1979), winemaker. Worked at B. Seppelt & Sons Ltd, managed their vineyards and cellars at Great Western, near Ararat. Developing Seppelt's Extra Dry Solero sherry.. Continued practice of naming wines after prominent individuals, including the State governors Baron Huntingfield in 1934 and Sir Dallas Brooks in 1950 (both Freemasons). “Ranked with Maurice O'Shea and Roger Warren as a great Australian winemaker” , widely influential with wine enthusiasts, makers and professionals. “In sparkling wine he had no peer.” Co-Founded Mitchelton Winery. Initiated Lodge Ophir No 27 (UGLV) on 15 Feb 1956. Resigned Dec 1965

·   James Francis Guthrie CBE (1872-1958), stock-breeder, woolbroker and politician. Founder and President Corriedale Sheepbreeders Assn. First Federal Government representative on the Australian Wool Board (now the Australian Wool Bureau), and only Australasian representative to the World Textile Conference in Paris in 1937. Member of several organisations aiding disabled service men. Senator 1915-38. Member City of Geelong No 307 (likely mother Lodge) foundation member Moorak No 501 UGLV on 12 Aug 1933

·   David Mandie AM OBE (1918-2011) Businessman & Philanthropist. Furniture retail & travel industry & Melbourne’s leading tobacco, wine and spirit distributor. “The ‘Pioneer of Duty Free’ in Australia. Sportsman and sport enthusiast, The “Mandie Report”, as it became known, had profound influence on the creation of the Australian Football League (AFL). Initiated Lord Cardigan Lodge No 422 UGLV on 19 Sept 1944. Held 50 Year Jewel and 60 Year Bar (UGLV)

·   Captain Staniforth Ricketson DCM (1891-1967), stockbroker, investor and Company Director, political influencer. "One of Australia's greatest financiers". Landed Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and DCM for actions that day. Member Stock Exchange of Melbourne (1914). Partner J. B. Were & Son (1914) and greatly influenced and helped steer it success. Member of “The Group” (1930) including four businesses and Sir Robert Menzies advocating conversation loan championed by Joseph Lyons. Influenced the establishment of the RBA(1950’s). Initiated Mersey Lodge No 21 TC, affiliated Victorian Naval and Military No 49 (UGLV) on 9 Jan 1913, received 50 Year Jewel in that Lodge, resigned following year.

·   William Bruce “Bill” Chambers OAM (1933-2023) Businessman, farmer, winemaker. Initiated into Clare Lodge No 12 South Australia in 1955, joined Rutherglen Lodge No 188 UGLV on 8 Oct 1959 (resigned 1976, rejoined 1996). irtant contributions to the Australian Wine Industry, "the undisputed king of the fortified wine business." Had a Masonic Funeral Service, Life Member of the Australian Wine Industry in 2005.

·   Roscoe "Roc" Kirby AM (1918 – 2008) businessman who founded the Village Roadshow cinema chain and film production company. Initiated Sunshine Lodge No 266 UGLV on 2 Sept 1941, resigned that Lodge in 1947. Joined The Lodge of St Mark No 591 UGLV in 1946, staying a member until his death. Held 50 Year Jewel with 65 Year Bar.

·   Sidney Baillieu Myer AC aka “Bails Myer “ (1926 - 2022). Australian businessman, company director and philanthropist. Son of Sidney Myer, founder of the Myer Emporium. Chair of Myer (1978-1994). Oversaw merger with GJ Coles & Company to create Coles Myer and retired from the business in 1994. Served on many company and community boards, including Cadbury Schweppes, Commonwealth Bank, Henry Jones IXL, Elders IXL, Ten Network Holdings, CSIRO, Deputy chairman, National Gallery of Victoria and the Victorian College of the Arts. Initiated Lodge Sorrento No 371 UGLV on 10 May 1952.

 Return to Table of Contents  

Famous Australian Freemasons; Chinese of the Ninetieth Century

While it is “unmasonic” to discriminate on race, 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.

·   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.

·   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

·   Sun Johnson Chinese Freemason

·   William Robert George Lee was initiated on 18 August 1890 probably is WRG Lee and his son William Lee was also a Freemason

·   William Ah Ket (1876-1936), distinguished 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

 Return to Table of Contents 

Famous Australian Freemasons: Convicts

(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. Francis Howard Greenway is of especial interest as he was Initiated after transportation for forgery, and example of how the Colonies could be different and convicts become esteemed members of society.)

·   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,

·   Robert William Felton Lathrop Murray (1777-1850), convict (bigamy, pardoned)., editor Colonial Times, journalist. “Father of Freemasonry” in Tasmania.

·   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”

·   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 .

·   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.

·   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,

·   Francis Howard Greenway (1777-1837), colonial era architect Also under architects). Greenway appeared on the old paper $10 Australian Bank note. Initiated in NSW, 3 June 1822 in Australian Social Lodge No 260 IC.

·   Thomas Prior aka Thomas Pryor (c1752 -1836), convict, farmer, shoe maker, publican, gardener. Transported for 7 Years aboard the Alexander in First Fleet for stealing. On 23 January 1789 Prior was sentenced to 300 lashes for buying from William Radford a shirt, trousers and pair of shoes. Had Masonic symbols on his Gravestone, some dispute his membership..

 Return to Table of Contents 

Famous Australian Freemasons; Females

Although regarded as “irregular” by Freemasons by general, these women were almost certainly influenced by their membership in a Masonic Order.)

·   Edith Dircksey Cowan OBE (1861-1932) (Co-Freemason), social worker, first woman elected to Australian Parliamentwomen's activistMember of St Cuthberts Lodge Perth Australia (Le Droit Humain). On Australia $50 bank note. Foundation member Co-Freemasonry in WA (1916) ,

·   Bessie Mabel Rischbieth (née Earle) JP OBE (1874-1967) (Co-Freemason), influential and early Australian feminist and social activist. The “most significant theosophic feminist in Australia” ,

·   Fanny Furner JP (1864–1938) (Co-Freemason) activist who worked to further the rights of women and children in the early 1900s in Sydney.

·   Amelia Morrison Fraser Macdonald JP (1865-1946), (Co-Freemason), social reformer and women's activist. Girl Guides Leader. Founded Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia (1908). In 1911, helped to found the State branch of the National Council of Women. Circa 1917 joined the Order of International Co-Freemasonry, “holding highest offices in all Lodges and Chapters, including 30th Degree. Formed the Western Australian Women Justices' Association (president 1925-29 and 1938-43)

·   Ruby Sophia Rich (later, Ruby Sophia Rich-Schalit) (1888-1988), Jewish community leader, feminist, pianist & public speaker.

Famous Australian Freemasons; Medicine

·   Col Dr Sir “Weary” Dunlop is listed under “Military Men”

·   Dr Allan Robert Stanley Vickers CMG MB, ChM (1901-1967), flying doctor

·   Dr George Bankin Bearham OBE (1899-) leading Melbourne surgeon, gynecologist and obstetrician. Past Grand Master Initiated Clarke Lodge I June 1927

·   Dr Walter Balls-Headley (1841{1842?}-1918), gynecologist, Grand Master Victoria in 1905-07 initiated Sir Isaac Newton Lodge 1161 on 14 June 1861

·   Caleb Soul (1817-1894), druggist and chemist,

·   Washington Handley Soul (1845-1927), retail chemist, businessman and Company Director, son of Caleb Soul. Donated the “magnificent Masonic Temple at Beresford Rd Strathfield which was named after him.

·   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

·   Dr Isaac Aaron (1804-1877), medical practitioner. Royal College of Surgeons. Editor Australian Medical Journal which he purchased in 1847.

·   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

·   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

·   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.

·   Dr Joseph Steigrad CBE (1902-1971), surgeon and soldier. Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Military Hospital Commander. Jewish Community Leader

·   Dr Arthur Richardson, (1844-1927) doctor pioneer in Kalgoorlie member Kalgoorlie Council, Temperance Advocate

·   Dr William Hull Lewis (1806-1875) Doctor, surgeon and magistrate in Gawler

·   Dr John Harris (1754-1838) formerly surgeon of the New South Wales Corps; Early Sydney Settler.

·   Sir John Jamison KGV (1776 –1844) 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

·   Dr. Octavus (Octavius) Weld BA, MD (c1834-1901) Mt Barker Pioneer. Initiated Canada 1858. President of the Floricultural Society, as a mark of respect flags were flown at half-mast throughout the district at his death. A rose is named after him.

·   Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) medicine was an British pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Florey (Australian and hence Fleming’s inclusion in our list) for his role in the making of penicillin. Initiated into Sancta Maria Lodge No. 2682, London in 1909

·   Sir John “Jack” Frew (1912–1985) OBE. Medicine, Dr on Burma-Thailand Railway teacher Melbourne University, “`one of the last giants in general medicine’ “

·   Dr Edward Owen Giblin, MD (1849-1896), Grand Master Tasmania 1895-1895. Initiated Dalhousie Lodge 860 EC, London. MLA

·   Major-General Dr Frederick Arthur Maguire CMG DSO VD KStj MD (1888 – 1953) soldier and surgeon. Commanding officer Australian Army Medical Corps, 3rd Division 1918-20. Alderman Sydney Council. Grand Master NSW 1933-35 & 1944-5. Initiated June 1920 in Lodge of Australia No 3 NSW (Also in military section where footnotes are held).

·   Dr Alphonso Jean Gardiner Nicholson CMG MB (1912 - ) , surgeon and Grand Master QLD 1977-80. Rotarian. Initiated 16 Sept 1946 in Acacia Lodge No 330 QLD

·   Surgeon-General Sir William Daniel Campbell Williams KCMG CB KStJ (1856-1919) surgeon and soldier, pioneer of military medical tactics later adopted by British Army... Served in three wars Sudan 1885, South Africa 1899 & Egypt 1915 although marginalized in WW1. Member Harmony Lodge of Australia No 5.

·   Dr. Matthew Henry Smyth Blood (c.1806-1883), (generally recorded as Dr M H S Blood) a medical practitioner in the town who also became Mayor of Kapunda, amateur photographer, first WM of The Lodge of Light No. 140 IC (later 11 SAC)

·   Dr. Francis Victor Harder, OAM (1926-2015), 6th generation Freemason, held 50 Year Jewel, initiated in Goulburn Valley St. John Lodge No 73 UGLV on 1st June 1955

·   Dr. Thomas Young Cotter (1805-1882), medical practitioner, 1835 he was appointed the first colonial surgeon of South Australia

·   Dr. Harman J Tarrant (1844-1900) Doctor MLA MLC. Senior figure in NSW Freemasonry. Honorary surgeon of Sydney Hospital. Worked to help create United Grand Lodge of New South Wales- appointed Pro Grand Master to it. Grand Master Grand Lodge NSW (1885). Finically ruined after mining speculation

·   Professor Sir Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart, MB, ChB, MD, LlD, DSc (1856–1920). Academic and Hospital Administrator. Founder of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sydney. Past Deputy Grand Master of UGLNSW.

·     

 Return to Table of Contents 

Famous Australian Freemasons; Other Politicians

·   Sir George Strickland Kingston (1807–1880) engineer and politician, First speaker South Australian House of Assembly Kingston Terrace Adelaide is named after him Friendship Lodge SAC

·   George David Langridge (1829-1891) Victorian politician and public figure. Acting 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.”

·   George McLeay (1892-1955), politician and businessman. MLA . Senate Whip. Federal Minister.

·   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.

·   Arthur Hardy (1817-1909), pastoralist, barrister and quarry-owner, Crown Prosecutor, MLA. He built the colony's first country Mechanics' Institute. First District Grand Master of the English Freemasons in South Australia 1867-84

·   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

·   John Sutherland (1816-1889), builder and politician. MLA, MLC. Major of Sydney 1861.

·   Alexander Wilson (1889-1954), farmer and politician

·   Sir Henry Briggs (1844-1919), headmaster and politician, Federationalist. President of the Legislative Council

·   Sir John Quick (1852- 1932) Influential Federationalist, lawyer politician and member Sandhurst for 9 years. MLA MHR. Leader ANA. Member first Parliament of Australia Arbitration Court 1922-32 (Vic.). Initiated Lodge Judah No 388 SC on 5 Nov 1879 (“A Century of Union”, P T Thorton) or on 6 June 1876 (“ 300 Famous Australian Freemasons”, K Henderson) Initiated Lodge Judah No 388 SC. Affiliated Zenith Lodge No 52 (UGLV) Nov 1892, Master of that Lodge June 1899

·   Joseph Wearne (1832-1884), flour-miller and politician. MLA, Orangeman, Temperance Advocate.

·   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.

·   David Robert Hall (1874-1945), lawyer and politician. Solicitor-General, Attorney-General, MLA MLC

·   Sir Edwin Thomas Smith KCMG (1830-1919) brewer, philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Kensington and Norwood in 1867-70 and 1871-73, 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,

·   William Francis Schey (1857-1913), union leader, Orangeman, politician and public servant, MLA

·   Vincent Pyke (1827-1894), politician, public servant, magistrate and writer, MLA, MLC

·   Charles William Oakes (1861-1928), jeweler and politician. MLA, MLC. 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. Land Reform League. Orangeman, member Masonic Lodge, Loyal Orange Lodge, and MUIOOF.

·   John Wheeler (1853-1915), accountant, Orangeman and politician

·   Stanley R. Whitford (1878-1959), politician, unionist, anti-conscriptionist.

·   William Henry Wilks (1863-1940), fuel merchant, politician and public servant, MLA MLC. Orangeman, Leader NSW Loyal Orange Lodge. Grand Master Grand Lodge of Scotland..

·   Henry Roberts Williams (1848-1935), mining director and politician MLA, miners’ rights

·   John Arthur Wright (1841-1920), politician, engineer and railway commissioner

·   Thomas “Tom” Armstrong (1885-1955), businessman and politician

·   Leslie Frank Louis “Les” Diplock (1899-1983), schoolteacher and politician, member of the DLP

·   Aubrey Robert Slessar (1889- 1972) served 3 terms in QLD parliament

·   George Kerr (1853-1930), blacksmith, politician and grazier. MLA. Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party & Minister for Railways

·   Andrew Hendry Ross (1829-1910), medical practitioner and politician. MLA

·   John Riddoch (1827-1901), pastoralists parliamentarian MLA.

·   George Riddoch JP (1842-1919) pastoralist & parliamentarian MLA. Member Mount Gambler Lodge Freemasons.

·   George Graham (1838-1922), farmer and politician, MLA. First President of the Shepparton Shire Council. Minister of several federal departments.

·   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 him With father's backing began 47-acre Everson Nursery 1895 in area which he later named Boronia, specialized in daffodils and boronia;

·   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

·   Frank Augustus Chaffey (1888-1940), farmer and politician. MLA. Colonial Secretary

·   Walter Peden Joyce Skelton MBE JP (1883-1979), railway officer and politician, unionist, prohibitionist MLA. Founded & Presided over the Protestant Independent Labour Party. Orangeman.

·   Edward Fitzgerald Russell (1867-1943), trade unionist, Mayor of Port Melbourne, president of the Trades Hall Council, Melbourne

·   James Tolmie (1862-1939), newspaper proprietor and politician, Government Minister, MLA. Initiated Darling Downs Lodge No 66 UGLQ

·   George Hugh Alexander Mackay JP (1872 -1961), businessman and eighth Speaker of the House of Representatives. MLA. Clermont Town Council (1899) and served as mayor (1900–02), Gympie City Council (1916), Mayor in 1917. . President of the Gympie Bowling Club (1936–39) and in 1955 received a Long Service Jewel for fifty years of service to Freemasonry.

·   Sir Henry Cuthbert KCMG (1829-1907), lawyer and politician, MLC, Solicitor General. Ballarat identify.

·   Emanuel Steinfeld (1828-1893), furniture manufacturer and retailer, politician, MLC, President Chamber of Manufactures. Mayor of Ballarat East Council (1866-69). Friend of Redmond Barry

·   Albert Edwin Elworthy Lee Tucker (1843-1902) (often known as "Albert Lee TUCKER"), parliamentarian, police magistrate. Mayor Fitzroy Council. MLA. Chairman Royal Commission (1878) on closed roads and member Royal Commissions: inquiry into Crown Land (1878), Mildura settlement (1896), State Forests And Timber Reserves (1897). Director of the Melbourne Permanent Mutual Benefit Building Society. Founding member (1871) of the Australian Natives' Association.

·   Evelyn Douglas Darby (1910-1985), teacher and politician. MLA. Founded & President (1939-53) the British Orphans Adoption Society (BOAS). Anti-communist, right wing activist.

·   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

·   Keith Dodgshun (1893-1971), farmer and politician. Karkarooc Shire Council, MLA . Deputy Leader County Party, Deputy Victorian Premier

·   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

·   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.

·   Ninian Melville (1843-1897), cabinet maker, undertaker and politician. MLA. Mayor Newtown. Mayor Ashfield and Summer Hill. Orangeman

·   John Hurley (1844-1911), mining speculator and politician. MLA. Orangeman

·   Francis Augustus Wright (1835-1903), carrier (Wright Heaton & Co) and politician. MLA. Mayor of Redfern. Postmaster-General. Deputy District Grand Master EC

·   Samuel Edward Lees (1843-1916), printer and politician MLA MLC

·   George Cann (1871-1948), politician. President of the Western Miners' Association. MLA who held various Ministries. Brother of John Henry MLA (NSW).

·   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.

·   Edwin Joseph Mackrell (1878-1965), politician MLA

·   Andrew Tennant (1835-1913), pastoralist and politician, MLA MLC

·   Arthur Herbert Whittingham (1869-1927), grazier and politician MLC

·   Edward Alfred Anstey (1858-1952), builder and politician, pro-conscriptionalist. He resigned from the ALP in 1916 over conscription, foundation member of the National (Labor) Party

·   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.

·   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

·   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)

·   Richard Cleburne (1799-1864) , merchant, politician, anti-transportationalist. MLC

·   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

·   Frederick William Coneybeer (1859-1950), trade unionist and politician, Speaker of the House. Minister of Education MLA

·   John Gibson Farleigh (1861-1949), manufacturer and politician, Orangeman. MLC

·   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

·   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

·   William James Beckett CBE (1870-1965), politician. MLA MLC

·   Thomas Henry Brooker (1850-1927), salesman, wood-merchant and politician. Mayor of Hindmarsh (1891) MLA

·   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

·   Joseph Henry Lewis Turley (Henry Turley) (1859-1929), anti- conscriptionalist, Trade Union Official, MLC, MLA. In 1893, one of the Labor parliamentarians sensationally suspended during the acrimonious debate on the peace preservation ('coercion') bill to counter the pastoral workers' strike. President of the Senate in 1910-13, he caused a minor but symbolic furor in 1910 when he rejected the accoutrements of his office for ordinary dress. .

·   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

·   Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott KCMG (1842-1901), solicitor and politician, federationist MLA 4th Grand Master UGLNSW (1895-1901). Speaker of the House. Federal Convention 1897-8. Initiated in 6 Nov 1863 in Samaritan Lodge 578 EC

·   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

·   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

·   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

·   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

·   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.

·   Nathaniel Barclay DCM (1894-1962), soldier settler and politician, ex-servicemen leader. MLA Barkley Square Red Cliffs, Victoria is named for him

·   Joseph Vardon (1843-1913) printer and politician, Temperance Advocate. Mayor of Hindmarsh in 1888-9 MLC

·   Edward Charles Vardon (1866–1937) printer and politician . MLA MLC (son of Joseph Vardon (1843-1913) President SA Chamber of Manufacturers 1910-12, later federal President Chamber of Manufacturers.

·   James Park Dawson Laurie (aka “Park Laurie”) (1846-1928) MLA. Initiated Mt Gambier Lodge circa 1867

·   Ephraim Henry Coombe (1858-1917), journalist and politician, MLA. South Australian town of Coombe is named after him.

·   Arthur Wade OAM (1919 – 2014)– MLA for Newcastle from 1968 to 1988

·   Cecil Thompson “Charlie” Oliver AM (1901-1990), Trade Union Official, politician, MLA. ALP State President, NSW Secretary AWU. Initiated 1962

·   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

·   James Tobias “Toby” Ryan (1818-1899), butcher, pastoralist, politician and sportsman. MLA . First Master of Queen's Lodge 982 EC in Penrith NSW.

·   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.

·   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.

·   Sir Gilbert Lawrence Chandler, KBE, CMG (1903-1974) MLC who was founder and president of the Angliss Hospital for 35 years.

·   Sir Asher Alexander Joel KBE AO (1912-1998) businessman & politician MLC Although Jewish, received a papal knighthood (1994) Knighted by a Queen, Pope and President. Initiated Lodge Bexley 328 (now St. George & St. Andrew 7) GL NSW

·   George Francis Freudenstein, (1921-2007) MLA

·   William Thompson (1862-1937) Grand Master NSW 1914-1924 . Laid 45 Foundation Stones for Masonic Buildings. Chair Benevolent Society NSW. Member for Ryde William Thompson Masonic School named after him

·   Tom Cleave Stott CBE (1899-1976), wheat famer and politician. Helped form Farmers Protection Association in 1929, General Secretary Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation. Sat in parliament for an unbroken thirty-seven years. Post 1962 election, held the balance of power in the House of Assembly and was elected Speaker. Stott Highway was named in 2008 in his honour.

·   Sir Charles Brunton (1867-1938) Melbourne Lord Mayor President Victorian Bowling Association Brunton Ave Melbourne is named for him.

·   Leslie Arthur Logan (1908-2000) politician. President BOGP Grand Lodge 1972–1979. MLC

·   Edmund Birch (1831-1875) pharmacist and MLC WA Perth Lodge

·   Clayton Turner Mason JP (1847-1911) Engineer, MLC WA Commissioner of Railways WM St George’s Lodge # 2165 EC in 1888

·   Joseph Taylor Monger (1834-1891) Miller and storekeeper, MLC WA

·   Edward Newman JP (1832-1872) Merchant and MLC WA

·   Josceline George Herbert Amherst (1846-1900), MLC WA

·   George William Barnard (1873-1941) storekeeper MLA WA

·   Edward Charles Barnett (1854-1922) merchant, member Albany Municipal Council, MLA WA

·   Harry Edward Bolton (1870-1956) engine driver, Mayor of East Fremantle Council, one–time Deputy Grand Master, MLA WA

·   Frank Tyndall Broun (1876 (1871?)-1930) farmer, MLA WA Government Minister. Colonial Secretary. Past Master, Beverley Lodge 73 WAC

·   Henry James Brown (1865-1933 ) farmer, MLA WA Founding Member Pingelly Lodge

·   Daniel Keen Congdon JP (c1836-38 – 1907) Merchant MLA WA, Mayor of Freemantle, Mayor of Nth Freemantle Deputy District Grand Master

·   James Thomas Franklin (1854 (1855?)-1940) builder and contractor, MLC WA Perth Municipal Council 1904, Perth City Council 1905–1923 Mayor of Perth 1923–1929, Lord Mayor 1929–1930, 1932–1934.

·   Edgar Henry Harris (1875-1934 ) MLC, WA

·   Henry Walter Davidson (1865?-1926) Local Gov Councilor, possible member Kalgoorie Lodge 24 WAC Mayor of Kalgoorie

·   Albert Young Hassell (1841-1918) pastoralist, explorer, Vice-Consul Norway, MLC WA . Owner Jerramungup Station. Horse racing identity, Founding member Plantagenet Lodge 1454 EC

·   William Dartnell Johnson (1870-1948) carpenter & director, MLA

·   Ernest Charles Bavage Locke (1856-1937) grazier, MLA WA , owner of several champion horses Founder Tattersalls Club

·   Charles McDowall (c1862-1916) auctioneer MLA Nunawading Council and later Mayor of Coolgardie 1904-06. WA State President Australian Natives’ Association.

·   Alfred John Stephenson (1845–1914) was a politician & newspaper proprietor in Queensland, Australia. One of the owners of the Queensland Times. Mayor of Ipswich & District Grand Master EC

·   William Joseph Mann (1875-1951) newspaper owner and editor established the South-Western News MLA WA

·   Griffin Cant Money (1865-1958) notable solicitor and pastoralist, MLA WA

·   Richard William Price MBE (1869-1937) journalist, Unionist, 2nd Lt WW1, MLA WA

·   John Stewart (1868-1927) merchant MLA WA

·   Sydney Stubbs CMG (1861-1953) teacher, merchant and farmer. Mayor of Claremont 1901-03; Mayor of Perth 1906-07. MLC, MLA

·   John Howard Taylor (1861-1925) stockbroker, won Queen’s Cup at Royal Cork Regatta in 1899; MLC Member Federal Convention 1897. Foundation member of Coolgardie Masonic Lodge

·   Frederick James Withers (1881-1963) Engine Driver, Unionist Politician, Mayor of Bunbury 1951-55. MLA

·   James William Wright (1854-1917) Architect and civil engineer. Founder WA Architects’ Assoc. MLC

·   John Arthur Wright (1841-1920) Engineer. MLA WA District Grand Master,

·   Herbert John Yelland (1878-1962) Farmer MLC WA

·   William Hague (1864-1924), storekeeper and politician MLA Chair Angaston District Council Past Master Barossa Lodge & member Angaston Lodge

·       Sir John Newlands KCMG CBE (1864-1932) railway man, trade unionist, & politician. State Funeral. MLA MLC

·       James Martin (1821-1899 ) Mining Machinery Manufacturer and Politician. There is a monument in Gawler to his memory as “The Father of Gawler”. Mayor of Gawler. MLC.

·       Maurice Salom (1831-1903), business man and politician president of the Hebrew Philanthropic Society, Director Commercial Bank of South Australia MLC

·   George Adam Kempton (1871/2?-1945) dentist and politician, MLC WA Mayor of Geraldton

·   William Copley (1845-1925), farmer and politician, Government Minister MLA MLC The Town of Copley South Australia is named for him. Also member IOOFMU. PM Orroroo Lodge

·   Robert Campbell (1804-1859), politician, philanthropist, anti-transportationalist, merchant, Colonial Treasurer, First Provincial Scottish Grand Master of the Province of Australia (1856) MLA MLC

·   Oswald Robinson Snowball (1859-1928), solicitor and politician, MLA Speaker of the House of Assembly pro-conscriptionalist, Temperance Advocate, Orangeman, Grand Master of the Orange Order, initiated into Freemasonry 1884 at Brunswick

·   Charles Ellis Davies (1847-1921) MLC, politician &; newspaper proprietor; Hobart Mercury. Grand Master Tasmania 1896-1914 & 1917-1921 Initiated 9 September 1874 in Tasmanian Union Lodge No 536 EC (later No 3 GLTas), three times Past Master of that Lodge.

·   Colonel Sir John George Davies KCMG (1846-1913) politician & newspaper proprietor; Hobart Mercury. Deputy Grand Master in 1896-1914. MLA

·   Sir Claude Ernest Weymouth James JP (1878-1961), politician and agent-general, Grand Master Tasmania 1926-1928 , Mayor Launceston 1924. President Launceston Rotary Club (1927) and of the London Club in 1942. President of the Tasmanian Rights League. MLA Initiated St Andrew Lodge 6 TC circa 1901

·   Colonel Commandant Horace William Strutt DSO ED (1903-1985), merchant, army officer and politician, Speaker of the House, Grand Secretary, MLA Tasmania

·   John Nobbs JP (1845-1921), conveyance and politician MLA His other enthusiasms were legion: founder of the (Royal) Australian Historical Society, the New South Wales branch of the Australian Natives' Association (sometime president) and of Granville School of Arts (president). Commissioner for the Melbourne (1888) and Chicago (1893) exhibitions and a trustee of the National Park and of Captain Cook's landing place at Kurnell. President of the New South Wales Football Association (Soccer). Leading Freemason and a founder of United Grand Lodge of New South Wales. First Mayor of Granville (1885) and again in 1887-88. .

·   Gordon Davidson CBE (1915-2002) politician MLC, founder Parliamentary Christian Fellowship 1966. Initiated March 1941 in St John Lodge No 15 SAC

·   John George “George” Davies KCMG (1846-1913), MLA, politician and newspaper owner Speaker of the House (brother of Charles E Davies 1847-1921) Mayor of Hobart 1885, 1886, 1897, 1899, 1900, and 1901.

·   Sir Luke Samuel Leake (1828-1886) merchant and Speaker of the House MLC

·   William David Ponder JP (1855-1933) MLA, member Adelaide City Council, First President of the Co-Operative Building Society, Initiated Lodge of Friendship No 1 in 1879, later Master of that Lodge.

·   Frederick Brown (1829-1903), auctioneer, barrister, solicitor and parliamentarian, Mayor of Beechworth, President Shire of Beechworth, Past Master St John in Beechworth, MLA

·   Thomas Henry Bath, CBE (1875 – 1956) politician, trade unionist, newspaper editor, writer, and cooperativist. MLA Member Knights of Labour, involved in the founding of Lodge Bonnie Doon No. 839. SC

·   Sir Harold Leslie Boyce, 1st Baronet KBE, KStJ (9 July 1895 – 30 May 1955) was an Australian-born British Conservative Party politician, businessman and Lord Mayor of London

·   William Archibald Borthwick AM (1924- 2001) MLA was Minister of Lands, Soldier Settlement, Health and Deputy Victorian Premier Initiated Peace and Loyalty Lodge No 261 UGLV on 25 June 1956

·   Wellington Lee AM OBE JP (1925-2022) Pharmacist, politician. Commissioner of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (1978-1980), Melbourne City Councilor (1977-1990 & 1996-2001), served as Deputy Lord Mayor, “…pioneer and champion of the Chinese community in Melbourne”. Initiated Lodge Guardian No 626 UGLV on 15 June 1956, joined United Box Hill Lodge No 221 UGLV on 19 Sept 1987

·   Matthew "Matt" Singleton (1927-). MLA, NSW Government Minister Joined 1953 60 Year Jewel holder

·   David Scott (1837-1893) MLA Tasmania. Mayor of Launceston. Initiated St John's Lodge April 1878

·   Richard Hartly Smith ABBOTT (1859-1940) Company Director & Politician MLC. Strathfieldsaye Shire Council 1887-1902, President 1901-02, Bendigo City Council 1904-09, 1913-19, mayor 1917-18. Initiated Golden and Corinthian No 7 (UGLV) on 20 March 1900

·   Henry Jefferson Percival "Jeff" Bate (1906 –1984) Diary farmer &Politician, MLA, Eurobodalla Shire Council 1927-38, President 1936-37. Exec. Chairman C’Wealth Food and Agricultural Committee 1959-72 He and Sir Robert Menzies “cordially detested each other”

·   Benjamin Benny JP (1869-1935) Lawyer & Politician. MLC Member Brighton Town Council, Mayor three years. Grand Registrar Grand Lodge of South Australia. Became Insolvent and convicted of fraud and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour His wife, Susan Grace Benny, in 1919 became the first woman in Australia to hold political office at any level of government

·   James Arthur Boyd (1867-1941) Businessman, company director and politician MLA. Port Melbourne Town Council (1898-1904), Mayor 1903. President of Melbourne Chamber of Commerce (1920-22 & 1930-32). President of Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia (1922-23). Initiated Lodge of Kent UGLV 26 May 1898

·   Reginald John Burchell MC (1883-1955) railwayman, politician and manager. MLA. Party Whip for ALP and NP. Expelled from ALP due to position on conscription in WW1. Acting Lieut-Col AIF 1917-19. After Parliament, manager with various companies including Hoadleys Chocolates, the MGM Film Company and Radio Interest Ltd..

·   John Moore Chanter (1845-1931) farmer, auctioneer, commission agent, and first Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives. MLA. Introduced ANA into NSW and became first President. First Mayor of Moama (1891–92). First secretary of the Victorian Farmers’ Union (1878). Protectionist & pro-conscription.

·   Samuel Dennis JP (1870- 1945) Politician MLC. Member Northcote City Council 36 years, mayor three times. Member and Vice Chair of Metropolitan Board of Works. Temperance Groups. Member Lord Northcote Lodge No 191 UGLV

·   Eldred James Eggins (1898-1952) Farmer and seed merchant. MLC. President of Seed Merchants Federation of Aust. Lismore Municipal Council (1925-37), mayor (1932-36). Company Director and member NRMA Council.

·   George James Foley (1873-1945) Miner MLA MLC. Member Perth City Council 1918-19.

·   James Newton Haxton Hume Cook CMG (1866-1942) politician. (Later known as James Newton Haxton Hume-Cook) MLA. Estate agent Brunswick 1887-1913; orchardist owning "Araluen" Diamond Creek. Member Brunswick Council 1894-1900, Mayor 1896-97. Prominent in the ANA, Treasurer 1904-42. Executive of many organisations including Roy. Zoological Soc., Vic. League, Health of Women and Children of Vic., Nat. Theatre Movement, Free Library Movement. Author of several books including Aust. Fairy Tales. Protectionalist and Federationalist. Initiated Victoria Kilwinning No 93 (UGLV) on 27 July 1891 (WM Duke of Brunswick No 132 in 1905)

·   Alexander John Fraser MC (1892-1965) soldier & politician, MLA MLC. Government Minister for Victorian State Development 1959, for Forests 1959-61.

·   Colonel Geoffrey Hurry DSO VD (1868-1951), Lawyer, Soldier, Politician. CMF, AIF 1915-20, Battalion Commander (38th). President Kyneton Shire Council 1902; Church of England Chancellor Diocese of Bendigo 1922-1944. Involved in many civic and sporting groups associated with Kyneton and surrounds. Initiated Zetland Lodge No 25 UGLV on 15 July 1894, WM that Lodge March 1898, 50 Year Jewel in 1945 (no break in membership).

·   William Robert Lawrence (1906-2004) Dentist and Politician. MHR Wimmera (1949-1958). Member Horsham Council 1944-56, Mayor 1947-49. Horsham Rotary Club, Horsham Apex Club, Wimmera & Royal Victorian Bowling Associations. Initiated Wimmera Lodge No 70 (UGLV) 24 July 1929, also member Wattle Lodge No 378 (1937-38)

·   David Charles McGrath (1872–1934), storekeeper and Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives MLA(Vic.) Grenville 1904-13, MHR Ballarat 1913-34. Active in movement for better mining conditions. Founded Hollybush Social Democratic Club. AIF 1916-18. Active RSL. Member ANA. Active footballer, cricketer, runner and cyclist. MHR, died in office. ALP to 1931. Initiated 21 Lodge Hope No 274 (UGLV) 21 May 1932, Deceased 31 July 1934.

·   Samuel Mauger (1857-1936) Hat manufacturer and politician. Industrial, prison, temperance & social reformer. Superintendent Fire Brigades Assn of Vic. President Metropolitan Fire Brigades. Convener and Sec Anti-Sweating League. President and Trades Hall Council delegate of the Hatters' Union. President YMCA & Total Abstinence Society. Rechabite. Involved in the Victorian six o'clock closing movement in 1911, and was secretary of the successful 1916 campaign. Postmaster-General (1907-08), Life member ANA. MLA (Vic.) Footscray 1899-1901, MHR Melb. Ports 1901-10. Initiated Albert Victor Lodge No 117 (UGLV) date not noted, possible foundation member UGLV. Later affiliated Clarke Lodge No 98 (Sept 1899 - March 1904) and Footscray St John No 71 (Sept 1901- March 1914)

·   Albert Clayton Palmer (1859-1919) flour miller & politician. Member Euroa Shire Council (1888 to 1893) and Echuca Borough Council. One of leaders and second President of Kyabram Reform Movement. Anti-Socialist. Methodist lay preacher, temperance advocate, leading member of Protestant Federation and Loyal Orange Lodge. MHR Echuca 1906-19, died in office;

·   Pharez Phillips (1855-1914) Storekeeper and farmer & politician. MLC MLA. . Three times President of St Arnaud Shire Council Member and President Borung Shire Council. Wimmera United Water Wks Trust Foundation member UGLV as member of Marma No 84 (UGLV). Resigned 31 Dec 1890. On Second Card, Werrigar No 128 (UGLV), no start, no initiation date, resigned 13 Nov 1913

·   Jacob Stumm (1853-1921) politician. Minister & MLA Queensland for Gympie (1896-1899) and a Commonwealth Liberal Party MHR for Lilley (1913-1917). MUIOOF. Proprietor "Gympie Times" Newspaper. Member Lord Dufferin Lodge which is now UGLQ No 48

·   Johann Christian “John” Heussler (1820–1907) businessman, wine merchant and politician. Founding member Queensland Club, Consul for the Netherlands, German Consul, and Emigration Agent for German shipping companies. “Father of the Legislative Council” (Queensland), MLC for 30 years

·   John George Appel (1859-1929). lawyer, farmer and politician. Member Nerang Shire Council, 1903-09. Member of the Hamilton Shire Council in 1890-1908 (Chair twice, Mayor twice). MLA for Albert, 1908-29; Home Secretary, 1909-15, Minister for Works and Mines. Despite residence in Townsville, Master of the Brisbane-based North Australian Lodge No. 1 (QLD) in 1888-89

·   Charles George Holmes a’Court (1843-1924) MLA (QLD). Civil Servant & Barrister. Parliamentary Clerk (QLD). Aide-de camp to Governor Cairns. Prominent Queensland Freemason. District Grand Registrar in QLD for UGLE

·   Richard Bingham Sheridan (1822-1897), farmer, public servant and politician. Lieutenant-Colonel CMF. Chief witness in inquiry into shooting of Aboriginals by a native police detachment stationed at Owanyilla (1861). MLA. Inspector of Polynesians. Foundation member: Maryborough Hospital, the Botanical Gardens (Chairman), and the School of Arts. North Australia Lodge EC

·   Vernon Thomas Hauser (1928- 2015), politician, sharebroker and company director. MLC Boronia (1970-76) and Nunawading (1976-82). Initiated Melbourne University Lodge No 171 UGLV on 4 July 1967

·   Sir Albert John Gould KT (1847-1936), lawyer and politician.MLA MLC. Member of the First Senate. Freetrader Minster for Justice. Made his fortune from copper mining. Chairman Sydney Electric Light and Power Supply Corporation. Director City Bank of Sydney from 1899. Director of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. Devout Anglican, member of the Sydney and Newcastle synods, in the latter case for nearly sixty years, and was chancellor of both dioceses. Maitland Co. Volunteers, retired as Lieut. Col. Had a State Funeral

·   James Aitchison Johnston Hunter (1882-1968), accountant and politician. Co-founder Queensland Country Party at Toowoomba in 1936. MLA. Country Party Whip and sec. 1924-34; Govt Whip 1924-29.

·   David Sydney Jackson (1889-1941) politician and Lock manufacturer. MLA, HR TAS President ANA. Rechabite. MHR Bass 1919-29,

·   John Thomas Jennings MBE (1878 - 1968) politician & retailer of dental supplies. MLA. Served withVictorian Mounted Rifles, Second Boer War. Longest serving National President of the Australian Dental Trade Association (ADTA) 1928-58 (now Australian Dental Industry Association (ADIA). Randwick Council 1910-14, 1926-32, Mayor 1929-30. Member C. of E. Synod; Initiated September 1939 in Lodge Prince Alfred No 94 UGLNSW

·   John Archibald McCallum (1892-1973), politician and schoolteacher. MLC. Commentator on International Affairs for ABC 1937-49; dir. Aust. Institute of Political Science 1934-50, contributor to its publications

·   Allan McDougall (1857-1924) Boilermaker & Trade Unionist. Anti-conscriptionalist. MLC. President and Sec Eight Hours Cttee; President and sec. Boilermakers Union

·   George McLeay (1892-1955), politician and businessman MLC. Active ANA, Masonic Lodge. Senior Minister in Menzies Government. Minister for Commerce 1939-40, Trade & Customs 1940, Repatriation 1940-41, Supply and Development 1941, for Shipping & Fuel 1949-51, and for Transport 1950-51, for Shipping & Transport 1951-55. Govt Whip 1934-37. Deputy Leader of Govt in Senate 1949-55. One of South Australia's best-known and most popular members of Federal parliament, remembered for his sparkling wit and quick repartee. Member St Andrew’s Masonic Lodge.

·   Major Sir Charles William Clanan Marr KCVO MC DSO (1880-1960), engineer, soldier and politician. MLA. Supervised building of first wireless station in Aust. at Pennant Hills, NSW. AIF 1914-19, commanded Wireless Squadron in Mesopotamia, Major 1916, MC, DSO. Minister for: Home and Territories 1927-28, for Health, Wks and Railways 1932, for Health and Repatriation 1931-34. Govt Whip 1921-22. Headed Australian delegation to the League of Nations. Promoted the New Guinea Legislative Council, personally opening it in May 1933. Noted Freemason & Grand Superintendant Scottish Royal Arch Freemasonry, NSW. Had State Funeral.

·   John Wallace Shannon JP (1862-1926) Farmer, auctioneer and Politician. MLA MLC. Foundation member Yorke Peninsula District Council, four years Chairman. Mayor Maitland three years; member Unley Council. Active MUIOOF. Speaking on the Electoral Bill in 1904, Shannon supported widening the franchise to include South Australia’s indigenous people.

·   William Harrison Story (1857-1924) trade unionist, stonemason and bricklayer, businessman and politician. President Operative Masons and Bricklayers Society. Member Norwood and Kensington District Council, Mayor 1902-03. Member MUIOOF, active in friendly societies, sports clubs and local assns. Active Freemason including Mark and Chapter. MLC MHR. Government Whip 1918-22 ‘

·   Carl Adrian Akhurst JP (1886-1953) was an Australian accountant, secretary and politician. MLC. Expelled from the ALP for being absent from a crucial vote. Member Leinster Marine Lodge No 2 UGLNSW, Sedgwick Sovereign Chapter, Member RAOB

·   Nicholas James Buzacott JP (1836-1933) Wheelwright and estate agent, politician. Trade Unionist. MLC. Alderman for Broken Hill 1898 until 1899. Newtown (1920-1928), Mayor in 1924. Member Enmore No 415 (UGLNSW)

 Return to Table of Contents  

Famous Australian Freemasons; Photographers, photographs & film makers

·   Ken G Hall AO OBE (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.

·   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 Indooroopilly No.155, UGLQ

·   Abraham “Izzy” Orloff (1891-1981), photographer Many photos of Perth and Fremantle in the early 20th century were taken by him. Founder of the Caledonian Lodge

·   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 Collingwood Lodge

·   Ernest Lund Mitchell (1876-1959), photographer and farmer, official photographer to the Governor of Western Australia. Initiated 1900 Lodge Cambrian No.10

·   Paul Heinrich Matthias Foelsche (1831-1914) Magistrate, Police Inspector, notable historic photographer Initiated 1861

·   Saul Solomon (1836-1929) early photographer, Alderman Adelaide, MLA, very active Freemason; first officer is SA Grand Lodge, president BOGP. Also IOOF. Studio in Ballarat from 1857- 1874 and various other locations (including NZ). From 1874 to 1891 Solomon operated under the name of the Adelaide School of Photography at 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide

·   David Tree and “Sam the koala” became an international iconic image of the Black Saturday 2009 fires in Victoria; 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 60,000 hectares and destroyed thirty homes and was still burning out of control a week later when the Kinglake fire complex started.”

Famous Australian Freemasons: Poets, Writers and Authors

·   Thomas E Spencer (1845-1911) Poet, writer of humorous ballads, building contractor, industrial arbitrator. Among his more popular works are 'How McDougall Topped the Score' and 'Why Doherty Died' Initiated 12 March 1877 in Leinster Marine Lodge of Australia No 266 IC, Past Master 6 times, signatory to GLs Articles of Union NSW and Foundation DC of the same

·   Robert Steel Byrnes MBE (1899-1979) Presbyterian administrator, poet and writer

·   Henry Melville (1799-1873), journalist, publisher and author

·   Francis “Frank” Clune OBE (1893-1971), author

·   Karl Rawdon von Stieglitz OBE (1893-1967) surveyor, pastoralist and historian and author Official Historian to the Tasmanian Government

·   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 .Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London

·        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

·   Frederick John Prichard (1851–1920), journalist During WW1 wrote under the name of 'Union Jack' to keep readers informed of developments on the front

 Return to Table of Contents 

Famous Australian Freemasons; Religious Leaders

·   Charles Edward Camidge (1837-1911), Anglican Bishop of Bathurst

·   Dr Harrington Clare Lees (1870-1929), Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne 1921-1929, foundation member of the Old Melbournians’ Masonic Lodge .

·   Rev George Harvard Cranswick (1882-1954), Anglican Bishop of Gippsland (1917-42)

·   Henry Lowther Clarke (1850-1926), Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne Provincial Grand Master of Masonic Province of the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire .

·   Most Reverend Charles Own Leaver Riley OBE (1854-1929 ) Archbishop of Perth. 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

·   Moses Rintel (1823-1880) Jewish minister & philanthropist first Rabbi of Melbourne Initiated 17 April 1849 Lodge Judah 388 SC (later No 20 UGLV), Past Master of the same. Foundation WM of Lodge Judah No 20 UGLV

·   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

·   Rabbi Raymond Apple AO RFD (1935-2024) Rabbi, historian and writer. Senior Rabbi of The Great Synagogue Sydney “retired in 2005 after many years as Australia’s highest-profile Rabbi”.

·   Rev Christopher Thomas Frow Goy MBE (1897-1982). Army Chaplain. Presbyterian Minister. Moderator Presbyterian Church in Victoria 1956-?. 28th First Grand Principal Holy Royal Arch Victoria. Initiated Lodge Bland No 337 (UGLNSW) on 20 August 1924. Foundation SW Lodge Tullibigeal (NSW), Master that Lodge 1928. PM Port Dawin Lodge No 42 GLSA, Pro Grand Master 1961-63. Member Nec Tamen Lodge No 429 (UGLV) 23 June 1946-30 Sept 1957, Member Lodge Observance No 654 (UGLV) from 22 March 1951 until death

·   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

·   Chap Archdeacon GE Lambie (-1939), Past Grand Chaplain, Councilor Philip Island Shire

·   Horace Crotty (1886-1951) Church of England Bishop of Bathhurst (N.S.W.) 1928-1936

·   Rabbi Jacob Danglow CMG OBE VD (1880-1962), Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, Army Chaplain Ninetieth First Grand Principal Holy Royal Arch Victoria. Initiated Melbourne University Lodge (UGLV) in 1921.

·   Rev Thomas John Riddle (1881 - 1973), Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. Chaplain CMF and 1st AIF (For “vogage only”, then posted to England and France). Initiated St John’s Lodge No 56 UGLV on 8 Sept 1921. WM Ringwood Lodge No 382 UGLV 1942-43. Member several other UGLV Lodges including 307 &837 remaning a member until death ( son is also Rev T J Riddle?)

·   George C. Barber President-General of Methodist Church of Australia (1948-51)

·   Rabbi Dr Joseph Abrahams M.A. (1855–1938) Chief Rabbi Melbourne Hebrew Congregation. Australia Felix 474 EC, Foundation Member UGLV Australia Felix No 1, was PM, date not legible, resigned 9 Dec 1918

·   Rabbi Jacob Lenzer (?-1921, Lead the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation. He was an eminent Freemason, the Worshipful Master of the Lodge of Australia Felix (1908) and Grand Chaplain of UGLV (1910). Initiated Lodge of Australia Felix No 1 UGLV on 13 Jan 1903

·   Rabbi Israel Morris Goldreich (1834-1905) led the Ballarat Jewish Congregation for 37 Years.

·   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”

·   Rev 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. Forced to Resign as Provincal Grand Master (or Freemason?) by Tasmanian Presbyterian Church. Member of Lodge of Hope (Tasmania) & Richmond River Lodge (NSW) for 50 Years.

·   Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas E Albiston (?-1938) oldest surviving officer of the Salvation Army in the Commonwealth when he died. Formed Corps at Pentridge Prison. Member Conyers Lodge No 1916 EC, member Orion No 53 UGLV

·   Walter Albiston (1889-1965), Congregational minister. Secretary of the Congregational Union of Victoria for 30 years. Earned reputation for vigorous support of conscription and Empire loyalty in the controversy with Archbishop Mannix. Victorian Protestant Federation, of which he remained secretary for forty-six years. Secretary then President of the Congregational Union of Australia and New Zealand. Member of many lodges in Victoria, founding member of four. Initiated Orion Lodge No 53 UGLV on 28 July 1919

·   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. Grand Chaplain UGLV. Initiated Lodge of Peace No 89 GL South Australia in 1921, foundation member of two Victorian Lodges, member Tasmanian Re Union No 437 UGLV where he obtained his 50 Year Jewel in 1971

·   Thomas Parking “Tom” Willason (1882?-1939), Methodist Minister

·   Edward Sidney Kiek (1883-1959) Congregational minister. “revitalized the South Australian theological world in the 1920s”

·   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.

·   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

·   Rabbi Isack Morris (1881-1951), notable Rabbi, extensively involved in Freemasonry including Other Orders: Mark, Chapter and Mariners holding Grand Offices in all.

·   Rabbi Asher Hymen Hart (1813-1871), Initiated Australia Felix EC in 1841, Past Master of that Lodge. Founder Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (1841)

·   Rabbi Francis Lyon Cohen (1862-1934) served as the first Jewish chaplain of the British Army (1892-1904) Minister at The Great Synagogue (Sydney) 1904 until his death in 1934

·   William Frank Hambly (1908-1972), Methodist minister, biblical scholar and college principal. Deputy Chancellor (1968-71) of the University of Adelaide.

·       Rev. Edward Mallen “Henry” Collick OBE (1868-1959), Archdeacon of Kalgoorlie ministered in Boer and WW1 Wars (Captain B2455)

·       Archdeacon Thomas McClemans (C 1862-1912), rector St Johns Church of England Kalgoorlie

·       Rev Sydney Leonard Buckley (1862-1964), founder and first Headmaster Ivanhoe Grammar Melbourne 1915 (then St James Grammar School, renamed in 1920), founded and first WM Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge 1946

·   Rev Richard Deodatus Poulett-Harris (1817 –1899), schoolmaster and Church of England clergyman. First Tasmanian Grand Master GL Tasmania (1890) 1893

·   Rev Henry Brune Atkinson (1874-1960), Anglican Clergyman and orchidologist recording 24 previously unknown species. Rector of Holy Trinity Church Hobart & Masonic Grand Lodge Chaplain. Archdeacon of Darwin (1924), and in 1928 of Launceston, (1928) .

·   Rev George Calvert Barber CBE (1893-1967), theologian and Methodist Church leader. President-general of Methodist Church of Australia (1948-51) and President of Australian Council, President World Council of Churches (1950-51). Chairman of Australian Student Christian Movement, 1939-51. Theology Professor Melb University. Served in WW1; military chaplain 1936-39 and Air Force chaplain 1939-46. Chaplain of the Grand Lodge 1949-51. Initiated Nyah No 268 UGLV on 2 Aug 1922

·   William John Edwards (1891-1967), Anglican Clergyman and headmaster, was born on 9 December 1891 at Riverstone, Accepted into UGLNSW 1923

·   Rev William Rothwell Barrett (1893-1967) Anglican Archbishop of Hobart, Warden of Christ College at the University of Tasmania 1929-49. Grand Master Tasmania 1962-4. Initiated 21 Feb 1923 in Mt Lyell Lodge No 24 Tas, Past Master Lake Lodge No 29 Tas

·   Rev Canon William Robert Ray OBE, (1911-1989) Anglican Clergyman and headmaster. Grand Master SA 1964-72. Initiated at Cunningham Lodge No 172 in 1939, foundation member (1948) and master (1951-52) of Pulteney Grammar Lodge. Helped found the Masonic Homes (Memorial Village) at Somerton Park, opened in 1965.

·   Rev Stephen Henry Hughes (1859-1934), Anglican Clergyman. Initiated Lodge Pacific No 3 TC

·   Rev Walter Rolley (1926-2016), Uniting Church Minister and served as an Army Chaplain, Grand Master UGLV (1997-99). Initiated into Lodge of Beauty in 1963, member The Ashlar Lodge, Robbie Burns Phoenix Lodge.

·   Rev Robert Gregory Creyke (1820-1889 ) one of the first Church of England Clergy in Brisbane. Initiated 1861 Prince of Wales Lodge (Prince of Wales Lodge No 1210, EC [which later became] No 1863 EC and then was renumbered No 908 EC. In 1921 Prince of Wales Lodge became No 3 UGLQ’)

·   Rev John Thomas Baglin ( c1870- 1950). Anglican Priest, Canon St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne (1919-1948). Grand Chaplain UGLV (1918-19) PDGM. Eighteenth First Grand Principal Holy Royal Arch Victoria 1942-45

·   Rev Joseph Horace Raverty (1890-1956), Anglican Priest & Church Leader who served as Army Chaplain Initiated Zetland Lodge No 25 UGLV on 10 Sept 1919. Foundation member Gisbourne No 298 in 1922 and member several other Lodges incl Excelsior Lodge of Industry No 16, Master Alphington No 295 in 1924 and Grand Chaplain 1940-42

·   Tom William Thomas CBE (1914-1999) Anglican Clergyman. AIF Chaplain 1942 - 1946. Appointed Dean of Melbourne (St Paul's Cathedral) in 1962 and led the memorial service for Harold Holt, at St Paul's Cathedral on 22 December 1967. Initiated Box Hill Lodge No 221 (UGLV) on 18 Feb 1947

·   Rev Frank Herbert King (1874-1949) Anglican Clergyman. Captain and Chaplain AIF WW1. Holy Trinity Anglican Church Stratford Vic (1935-1944). Initiated in Canada in Victory Lodge No 82, date not known, affiliated Wannon Lodge No 68 (UGLV) 14 April 1919, resigned March 1921. Included here because of the Canadian Initiation.

·   Rev Hugh Thomas Molesworth (1860-1930) Anglican Clergyman. Provincial Grand Chaplain IC QLD. First Grand Chaplain UGLQ. DGM UGLQ when he died

·   Rev James Robert Moffatt (1823-1875). Anglican Clergyman. Naval Chaplain H.M.S. Asia. 1840. His church was a small wooden church 50 x 20 x 15 built in 1849 in Johns Street First Rector St. Mary`s Kangaroo Point In 1860. . Librarian to First QLD Parliament (1861-1874). Died State Librarian 1875. One of five Queenslanders to be regularly initiated in Queensland, North Australian Lodge No 796 EC (QLD) on 10 Aug 1859

·   Rev Edward Oerton (1855-1930) Anglican Priest. DSGW (1909) Grand Chaplain. Popular Churchman known as “Father Oerton” and “Pa Oerton”

·   Percival Hensby Dicker OBE (1892-1975) aka Percy Hensby Dicker. Anglican Priest. Headmaster Boston House at Geelong Grammar. Canon Holy Trinity Church Wangaratta. Wangaratta Hospital has a ward named for him. Initiated into Moe Lodge No 210 (UGLV) on 7 May 1923. Also member of Bareena Lodge No 398 (WM 1930-31) & Wangaratta Lodge of St. John No 66 both UGLV

·       Archdeacon Edward George “Ted” Gibson OAM (1935-2024), “the best-known Anglican in Gippsland”. Initiated Wellington Lodge No. 4 (WAC) on 21 July 1958, joined Walhalla Lodge 69 UGLV on 13 March 1967, also member of Lodges 814, 180, 51, 875 & 877 (All UGLV)

 Return to Table of Contents  

Famous Australian Freemasons; The Law

·   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.

·   Sir William Clarke (1831-1897) landowner, stud-breeder and philanthropist, first Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Victoria (1889-1896) Initiated Tasmanian Union Lodge 356 on 11 Oct 1855

·   William Meek (1810-1850) , Victoria’s First Lawyer, foundation senior warden of Australia Felix No. 1. founding Secretary of the Melbourne Club. His city office was in what was then called Meek Street and is now Bank Place Initiated in Restoration Lodge No 128 EC on 31 July 1834 in Harlington, England

·   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

·   Sir James Cockle FRS FRAS FCP (1819-1895) lawyer and mathematician. First Chief Justice of Queensland, Australia from 1863-79

·   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

·   Justice Charles Stumm KC (1965?-1929) Queensland Supreme Court Judge , Grand Master QLD 1922-1929

·   Justice Benjamin H Matthews, (1891-1974) Grand Master Queensland. , Judge Supreme Court of Queensland

·   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

·   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

·   Oliver James Gillard Kt (1906-1984) Supreme Court Judge. 21st Grand Master UGLV 1965-1968 Initiated Eros Lodge 7 April 1934

·   Chief Justice Thomas Slaney Poole (1873-1927) Grand Master South Australia GL

·   Sir Geoffrey Sandford Reed (1892-1970) Supreme Court Judge and foundation director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO). Chaired three Royal Commissions. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of South Australia. (Another one conspiracy theorists will love).

·   Sir Leslie James Herron (1902-1973) Chief Justice,

·   Sir Wilfred Kelsham Fullagar KBE (1892-1961), High Court Judge

·   William John Fookes (c1853-1925) President Law Institute of Victoria 1902-03. Initiated Temple Lodge No 123 UGLV (date not recorded), WM of merged Austral Temple Lodge No 110

·   Justice Arthur Piper(1865-1936), Judge Supreme Court South Australia, Grand Master South Australia Freemasons

·   Norman Thomas William Allan (1909-1977), Police Commissioner

·   Francis Erich “Frank” Bischof (1904-1979), Police Commissioner QLD (I guess we need to claim the bad with the good – interestingly it was another Freemason, Sir Thomas Hiley, who exposed him)

·   Clifford Henry Book KC (1895-1954) Judge , Crown Prosecutor 1926-1942 . 16th Grand Master UGLV . Initiated Melbourne University Lodge 11 Dec 1919

·   Athol James Kennedy (c1900-1980) Barrister & Corporate Lawyer, Magistrate. Initiated United Accountants Lodge No 377 UGLV on 13 Dec 1927. WM that Lodge. 1937. Also member Burwood Lodge No 527 UGLV. Was DGM 1955-59 but then Pro Grand Master 1957-1959 under Major-General Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, and then conferred Past Grand Master UGLV in 1959. Russell Kennedy & Cook

·   Francis Robert Nelson (1906-1985) Supreme Court Judge Initiated Lodge Felicity No 431 UGLV on 22 Jan 1932. Received 50 Year Jewel that Lodge

·   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 11 June 1953 in Sir Samuel Walker Griffith Lodge No 408 QLD, Past Master Lodge of Famonsel No 842 UGLV

·   Justice Howard E Zelling, CBE QC Grand Master South Australia 1972-1976

·   Justice Samuel J Jacobs, AO QC Grand Master South Australia 1979-1982

·   Clive William Harris (1918-2004) County Court Judge, Chairman Workers Compensation Board. 24th Grand Master of UGLV (1972-1974) . Initiated East Camberwell Lodge No 532 UGLV on 19 Dec 1946, Master that Lodge 1959

·   Frederick Charles Standish (1824-1883) District Grand Master Victoria EC (1861-?) . Assistant 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.

·   Robert Cleghorn MacKenzie (1832? – 1866?), Goldfield Warden Victoria First President Maldon Hospital Provincial Grand Master EC ?

·   Eustace Beardoe Grundy KC (1849-1938) Lawyer, Pro Grand Master South Australia , initiated Mt Gambier Lodge 1207 EC in 1877

·   Sir George Coutts Ligertwood (1888-1967), judge, Chancellor of the University of Adelaide (1961-66)

·   Neville Leonard Colbran AM (1928-2007) President Law Institute of Victoria 28th Grand Master UGLV 1980-1982, Initiated Lodge of Precision No 670 UGLV on 17 Dec 1949

·   Arthur Lang Campbell (1889-1949), Professor of Law University of Adelaide.

·   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 .

·   Justice William Alfred Wearing (1816-1875), Supreme Court Judge & QC Initiated into Lodge of Friendship SA

·   George John Crawford (1812-1852) judge. First to wear a judicial wig in the SA colony Grand Steward UGLE Has the Second State Funeral in South Australia

·   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

·   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

·   Honourable Francis Stewart Boyce KC (1872-1940) barrister and politician, Supreme Court Judge, Attorney-General. Temperance Advocate MLC

·   Peter Brett (1918-1975), Professor of Jurisprudence. Initiated University Lodge 154 GLWA. Affiliated Melbourne University Lodge No 171 UGLV. Grand Lecturer UGLV

·   Justice Richard Bullock Andrews QC (1823-1884) Supreme Court Judge and Attorney-General. MLA. Prominent SA Colonist. Sixth South Australian State Funeral.

·   Edward Castres Gwynne (1811-1888) Supreme Court Judge MLC Friendship Lodge No 1 SAC

·   Justice Charles Edward Chubb QC (1845-1930) Supreme Court Judge, Attorney-General, Crown Prosecutor, and politician, MLA

·   William Henry Moore (1788?-1854) Solicitor of the Crown Attorney-General & First free Solicitor in the Colony of NSW.

·   Chief Justice Sir Archibald Paull Burt KB (1810-1879), Chief Justice & Judge (Laid Foundation Stone 1866 in WA) Western Australia's first chief justice

·   William Gordon Hayes-Williams (1862–1934) Registrar General (1898-1927) .

·   Vaughan Ellsworth Werner (1939-2019). Grand Master UGLV , Assistant Commissioner of Victoria Police, Initiated into The Diamond Valley Lodge No 252 UGLV on 18 Jan 1964

·   The Hon Lloyd Waddy (1939-) AM, RFD, QC Retired Judge

·   Hugh Montgomerie Hamilton (1854-1930) , Judge. Grandmaster UGLNSW (1909), Mark Master Masons (1912-13) & Royal Arch Masons (910-11, 1912 and 1924) . One of the first to bring golf clubs into New South Wales. As a result of the part he played in Murchison expedition in the New Zealand, Mount Hamilton is named after him. Involved in many community organizations including Honorary Life Governor Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and President of many other Organizations. . Initiated Northern Bar 1610 EC, member, Burwood 153 NSWC

·       William John Peterswald (von Peterswald) (1829-1896) Commissioner of Police South Australia ..“..assisted in establishing the first Royal Arch Chapter in the colony.” and Member United Service Lodge in South Australia.

·   Harry Frederick Ernest "Fred" Whitlam (1884 – 1961) Australia's Crown Solicitor (1936 – 1949), pioneer of international human rights law in Australia. Father of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Initiated Metropolitan Lodge No 85 UGLV in 1912, resigned 1924

·   Sir Charles Arthur Hillas Lempriere Abbott KC (1889-1960), politician, barrister, Judge, Attorney-General, Judge of the Supreme Court (1946 - 1959), Dean Faculty of Law Adelaide University, President Law Society South Australia MLA. Initiated 10 May 1917 at Lodge St Alban SAC, Past Master of that Lodge, Grand Master SA 1950-3

·   Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs PC GCMG AC KCB QC (1917-2005) lawyer and judge. Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Judge in the Tasmanian Dams Case. Initiated 6 October 1940 in Walker Griffith Lodge No 408 QLD, Past Master that Lodge (1959).

·   Sir Dudley Bruce Ross KC QC (1892-1984), lawyer, Supreme Court Judge, Grand Master SA 1959-64. President of Church of England Boys Homes 1945-73, Law Society of South Australia 1947-59. Initiated 14 Nov 1921 in St Peter’s Collegiate Lodge No 53. 50 Year Jewel holder.

·   John Stephen (1771-1833) NSW Supreme Court Judge Grandfather of Virginia Woolf.

·   John Robert Evans (1943-2017), lawyer, Grand Master UGLV (2003-2005).Member of Lodge Amicus and Seavic Lodge, United Schools Lodge. Initiated Caulfield Grammarians Lodge No 364 UGLV on the 24th May 1976

·   Lindsay Williams (1921-1998) barrister and solicitor, partner at McEwan in Adelaide. Appointed as Deputy President of the Industrial Court of SA (1957), President of the SA Industrial Court, Deputy President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. Initiated St. Alban Lodge, South Australia, in 1968. Installed as Grand Master UGLV 1989 in a ceremony before 15,000 people, in the first Installation that was attended by non-members.

·   Aubrey Halloran, OBE, BA, LLB, (?-?) President of the Royal Australian Historical Society, the Royal Zoological Society, the International Society of Australia, the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, and the Royal Overseas League. Grand Master GLNSW (1930-33). Foundation Worshipful Master of Lodge University of Sydney Initiated Ionic Lodge No 65 NSWC

·   Professor Roy Allan Woodman LLM (?-2006). Academic Professor. 29th Grand Master UGLNSW&ACT (1985 - 1988). Legal Author and Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney. Published “Woodman and Nettle” on the Torrens Title System.. Initiated Hampton 506 NSWC

·   Grosvernor Arundell Francis (1873-1944) Solicitor & Politician. Won seat when other candidate died. Engaged in most big mining and pastoral cases in N.Q. Prominent Freemason, District Grand Master QLD 1922- 23

·   Justice Ratcliffe Pring QC (1825-1885), lawyer and politician. Judge. Crown prosecutor. Attorney-General (1859-1866, 1867-1868, 1869-1870,1874,1879-1880). MLA, MLC. Commissioner of goldfields (1871). President of the Valley Race Club and the Queensland Turf Club.

·   Sir James Francis Garrick KCMG QC (1836-1907), politician and Agent-General for Immigration. Crown Prosecutor. Supreme Court Judge (QLD). Postmaster-General. MLA, MLC.

·   Abijah Murray aka Abi Murray (c1875-1932) Solicitor and Public Notary. “Eminent Freemason” in several Masonic Orders. District Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Carpentaria (UGLQ). Founding member Cairns Bowls Club. Involved with the Cairns Jockey Club. Lieutenant in H Company in the local militia, and advocated universal military training. Initiated Torres Straight Lodge No 820 SC in 1889. Foundation Member Wyben Lodge No 44 QC in 1905, Cairns Lodge No 52 QC in 1907, Murray Lodge No 177 UGLQ in 1921. Cairns Lodge No 52:, after the formation of UGLQ. The Lodge was renamed Murray Lodge No 177 .

·   James Watkin Jackson (1834-1863) Banker. In 1855, first Initiate of at first meeting of Cambrian Lodge No 656 EC in NSW. First Master North Australia Lodge No 1098 EC Brisbane., “Father of Freemasonry in Queensland” founded first Masonic lodge in Queensland 13 July 1859. 83 years after his death, Freemasons gathered at his grave to honour him.

·   Thomas Mylne (1838-1906) Senior Public Servant. Registrar of Titles. District Grand Master SC QLD (1895-1906). The Mylne Lodge No. 769, S.C. (1891) is named after him

·   Anthony Raymond Lauer (“Tony Lauer”) APM JP (1935-2022) Police Officer & NSW Police Commissioner (1991-1996). Controversial resignation on the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. 34th Grand Master UGLNSW (2002–2004)

·   Harold Edward Renfree CBE (1905-1989), Commonwealth Crown Solicitor (1955-1970), author and amateur composer. Initiated into the Star of the South Lodge No 198 UGLV on 13 October 1926. WM that Lodge 1939, moving to Canberra and had much to do with the establishment of Other Masonic Orders.

 Return to Table of Contents 

Notable Australian Freemasons; Still more..

·   Adolphus Herbert Frederick Norman Appleroth (1886-1952) wrote the famous jingle "I like aeroplane Jelly". Initiated at Lodge Vaucluse 15 March 1928.

·   Hugh Colin Webster CMG (1905-1979), once Professor of Physics at University of Queensland 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

·   John Hosking (1806-1882) first Mayor of Sydney initiated Lodge of Australia

·   Frederick Thomas Hickford (1862-1929) Barrister & Politician, Mayor of Brunswick, President Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Chairman Tramways Trust 9th Grand Master UGLV 1918-22 Pro Grand Master UGLV 1922-26 Initiated Davies Lodge 1893

·   Sir Albert John Gould (1847-1936) lawyer and politician. Minister for Justice under Sir Henry Parkes (1889-91) and (Sir) George Reid (1894-98).

·   Sir Ernest Thomas Fisk (1886-1965) radio pioneer . Initiated into Freemasonry at St John Lodge No 579, UGLE on 28 April 1910 affiliated Lodge Victoria No 73 in NSW in 1914

·   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

·   Rabbi David Isaac Freedman OBE (1874–1939) Politician & chaplain in the AIF, 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

·        Arthur Rudolph Bailey (1863-1938), pharmacist was a driving force behind the Pure Foods Act

·   George Ernest Hudson CMG (1862-1926) Chairman of Tariff Board, Chief Surveyor Victoria

·   Aaron Blashki (1860-1938) prominent Sydney business man, company director, founded the Jewish Aid Society and served on several other benevolent organizations. President of the Great Synagogue and of the Sydney Zionist Society. “Past Grand Master Victorian Grand Lodge”. Built “The Blashki Building”; 61 Hunter Street & Elizabeth Street Sydney, & founded “A. BLASHKI. Ltd.”, tobacco merchants

·   Charles Carty Salmon (1860-1917), politician & Federationalist Speaker of the House , 8th Grand Master UGLV Initiated Talbot Lodge 12 Dec 1852

·   James Ernest Ogden (1868-1932) miner, unionist and politician

·   Frederick John Ludowici (1873-1969) businessman and conservationist

·   John Paul Sennitt (1851-1922), Local Councilor South Melbourne City Council, JP engineer and ice-cream manufacturer Admiral Collingwood Lodge

·   Leslie George “Les” Cole (1892-1978) magician,

·   Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Clarke GCMG BD CIE (1824-1902) soldier, military engineer, politician and public servant MLC. Surveyor-General. Established the Victorian Roads Board & Municipal Institutions Act. Governor of Singapore. . PT Thornton claimed initiated Lodge Happiness or K Henderson reports initiated on 25 September 1855 in Lodge Australasia No 530 EC (later No 2 UGLV).

·   Ernest Henry Farrar (1879-1952) trade unionist and politician. MLC

·   Thomas Stephen Burston (1858-1928), three times Mayor of Toowoomba, Past Grand Master SC QLD

·   John Tuthill Bagot (1819- 1870 ) MP Solicitor-General (1857), Commissioner of Crown. Lands (1860/61). Provincial Grand Master IC, , member first Parliament of 1857

·   William Dixon Campbell Denovan (1829-1906) miner, reformer, politician and public servant

·   Hubert Leslie Primrose (1880-1942), solicitor and politician, member of New Guard, “On 19 March 1932, after another senior New Guardsman, Francis de Groot (also a Freemason), 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”

·   Major Dr John William Connell OA AM (1913- 2016) , engineer business man, founder of Aurecon, Melbourne City Train Loop, 31st Grand Master UGLV 1986-89 Initiated in Francis Ormond Lodge on 27 Sept 1946

·   Sir James Anderson Murdoch CMG (1867-1939) retail trader, politician and philanthropist. MLC Initiated 18 October 1900 in Lodge Oxford No 85 NSW, Past Master that lodge and remained a member until he died.

·   Sir William John Macleay (1820-1891) pastoralist, politician and patron of science MLC MLA

·   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).

·   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 off his estate of almost £500,000 was left to the University of Melbourne Library 'in memory of William Lawrence Baillieu'.

·   Sir Clive Latham Baillieu KB (1889–1967) financier and politician,

·   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.

·   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 of Australasia 20 Dec 1894

·   Sir John Winthrop Hackett KCMG (1848-1916) politician, lawyer, principal proprietor of the West Australian Newspaper Grand Master of Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Western Australia in 1901-03 Father of the Federal House Parliament 1906—16.

·   Joseph Henry Abbott (1830-1904) businessman, civic leader and politician. Member of the Royal Commission on Law reform which began in 1897

·   Sir Manuel Hornibrook (1893-1970) eminent civic construction engineer, Prince Albert Lodge No 248 UGLQLD

·   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

·   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

·   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

·   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

·        Edward Hargraves (1816–1891) – discoverer of gold in Australia Initiated Leinster Marine Lodge of Australia No 266 IC April 1853

·   Sir William Brunton KCB (1867-1938) Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1923-1926 Foundation Chairman of Freemasons Hospital. Initiated Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49 UGLV 1905

·   Phillip Cohen (1852-1939) Chief Clerk Dept of Mines Victoria for 22 years. Jewish Community Leader, Past President Melbourne Hebrew Congregation. Board of Heatherton Sanitarium, 15 years as Chair. Initiated Duke of Sussex Oct 1878. First Jewish First Principal in Victoria and Australia

·   William Henry(?-1903) owned the “South Melbourne Citizen’s Newspaper”

·   Sir Thomas Hiley, QLD Treasurer, probably Sir Thomas Alfred “Tom” Hiley (1905-1990) politician and accountant MLA, Prince Albert Lodge No 248 UGLQLD

·   Angell Ellis (1831–1916) foundation Editor “Victorian Craftsman”

·   Frank Ernest Pettifer (1873-1946) 17th Grand Master of UGLV 1945-1946 President Braille Writers Association Initiated Austral-Temple Lodge 8 Dec 1920

·   William Player Bice (1855-1933) 11th Grand Master UGLV 1926-1927 . 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. Initiated Earl of Carnarvon on 26 Oct 1886

·   Charles Roger Darvall CBE Kt (1906-2002) banker (General Manager), company director, State Electricity Commissioner, 22nd Grand Master UGLV 1968-1970 . Initiated Wimmera Lodge 20 (or 24th) Oct 1944

·   Sydney Lance Townsend Kt. (1912-1983) Dean of Medicine Melbourne University . 23rd Grand Master UGLV 1970-1972 Initiated 24 Sept 1948 Philatelic Lodge

·   Major James William “Jim” “Jake” Jacobs (1902-1990), WW2 POW on Thai-Burma Railway, Secretary of the Royal Freemasons Homes 1947-1967. Initiated Cremorne Lodge

·   Christopher Robert Barnes James (1899-) 26th Grand Master UGLV Initiated 7 Feb 1945 into City of Kew Lodge

·   Francis Arthur Macarthur-Onslow (1879-1938), three times Mayor of Camden , Queen's Medal with five clasps. Initiated Lodge Abbotsford No 217 on 6 June 1915

·   George Macleay Macarthur-Onslow (1875-1931), soldier. Initiated Lodge Abbotsford No 217 on 10 Sept 1898

·   Reginald Edward Gregory MBE (1911-2004) honorary Secretary Girl Guide Association, 27th Grand Master UGLV 1978-1980. Left $3 million to Masonic Charity, served on the Freemasons Hospital board of management for nearly twenty years, director of finance of Myer Emporium (1961), initiated in the City of Caulfield Lodge No 235 on 12 March 1934

·   Henry John Nathan OAM (1927-2004), Company Director, 29th Grand Master UGLV 1982-1984. Founded Heartbeat Victoria Incorporated. Initiated Lodge Fraternal No 603 UGLV on 28 July 1948

·   George Brunswick Smythe (c1810?-1845?), Magistrate, first Master of a Lodge in Victoria, Australia Felix 1839 Brunswick Street Fitzroy Melbourne is named after him. Initiated St. Mary's Lodge No. 76, London in 1835. [Suggestion that he Returned to England and died at Lewisham Kent in 1841 aged 31 “]

·   John Stephenson, “Father of Freemasonry (in Victoria)”, Assistant Editor ‘Port Philip Gazette”

·   William Herbert Green OBE (1878-1968) businessman, philanthropist, politician Mayor of Townsville, Foundation District Grand Master of the District Grand Lodge of North Queensland

·   William Edwin Black, ( c1816- 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.”

·   Prof George Ingle Finch, MBE, DSc, (1888-1970) chemist and mountaineer, Fellow of the Royal Society. Initiated, aged 40 Hampstead L. No. 2408 EC

·   Frederick Thomas Wimble (1846-1936) politician, ink-maker, type-founder and printers’ furnisher, founding editor Cairns Post, manufactured the first printing ink made in Australia. Lodge Austral No 194, UGLNSW Wimble Street Brinsmead Cairns is named after him

·   Ray Campbell, National Commodore of the Australian Volunteer Coastguard, initiated Lodge of Confidence in 1977

·   Bruce Skeggs OAM, KSJ (1932 -2013) Journalist, trotting commentator, publisher, Mayor, state MP

·   Henry Condell (1797 - 1871) First Mayor of Melbourne.

·   Harold George Coates OBE JP (1917-2002) NSW politician, MLA. Grand Master NSW 1980-85

·   Maurice Herman Kellerman OBE (1902-2000) NSW Board of Jewish Education Initiated Lodge Apsley

·   Robert Dunbar Scott, Surveyor (c1822 – 7 March 1898) Laid out the township of Camperdown

·   Gordon Charles Lewis (c1921-2012), Radio

·   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 Ambulance Association. 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.

·   Mr John Daniels (1818 - 1887). Colonist; sergeant in a regiment in charge of convicts at Norfolk Island; a prominent Freemason

·   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

·   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,

·   William Lawes Ware (1847 – 1921(?) ) Auditor for the City of Adelaide 1878 -1885(?)

·   William Fiveash (1825 – 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 Australia. Founder of Irish Constitution in Colony and central in construction of Alfred Masonic Hall Waymouth-street, Chairman of their Trustees for the same

·   James Scandrett (1836- 1903) printer, journalist, co-founder Kapunda Herald

·   Henry Edward Downer (1836–1905) , member of parliament and Attorney-General Deputy District Grand Master under the English constitution Initiated in United Tradesmen's Lodge No.853/583 E.C

·   Fred Johns, (1868-1932) Biographer In 1906 he published his Johns's Notable Australians

·   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.

·   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

·   Sir Lewis Cohen (1849-1933) many times Lord Mayor of Adelaide. Sir Lewis Cohen Avenue, Adelaide, named after him,

·   Charles Kenworthy , intermediary for the Americans taken at the storming of the Eureka Stockade. He helped organise the release of American miner Charles Ferguson.

·   Robert Gouger (1802-1846) , “First Colonial Secretary” (South Australia) was one of the founders of South Australia” Gouger St Adelaide is named after him

·   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.”

·   Sir John Morphett, (1809–1892) South Australian Pioneer, Politician Morphett St Adelaide is named after him. Lodge of Friendship SAC

·   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

·   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

·   Alexander Boden AO (1913-1993) , industrialist, manufacturing chemist, author and publisher of science textbooks, and philanthropist . Fellow Australian Academy of Science

·   Sir Herbert Lethington Maitland (1868–1923) surgeon and sportsman.

·   John Samuel Shearston (1853-1916) seamen's missionary

·   Rev Solomon Mark Solomon (c1858-1941) Scouting The Victorian Zionist League (conspiracy theorists will love that one). Chaplain- Colonel CMF

·   Octavius Charles Beale (1850-1930) piano manufacturer and a philanthropist .

·   Frederick William Neitenstein (1850-1921) prison reformer

·   Leonard Burnie (Len) Harris (1890-1964) newspaper publisher and printer

·   Frederick John Prichard (1851-1920) journalist

·   Lionel George Logue (1880-1953) speech therapist – made Famous by the movie – The Kings Speech. Initiated St George's Lodge WA on 18 September 1908

·   William Ramsay Young DCM, MM (1894-1965) soldier and butcher.

·   Walter Albert Selle CBE (1883-1968) schoolteacher and university registrar

·        Michel Francois “Frank” Albert (1874-1962) , music publisher, radio station & cinema owner. Director of the Australian Broadcasting Co. Ltd (ABC). 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 (RACV) and a founder and commodore of the Motor Boat Club (Royal Motor Yacht Club)

·   Sir Walter Thomas Merriman (1882-1972) sheep breeder

·   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

·   George Henry Thorn (1840-1905) politician MLC. Managed his father's (George Thorn (1806-1876) soldier, businessman and politician ) properties on the Darling Downs.

·   John Macintosh (1821-1911) , ironmonger, alderman, magistrate, and politician. MLA MLC

·   Arthur Ashworth Aspinall (1846-1929) Presbyterian clergyman and school principal

·   William Phelan (1915-1973) businessman and politician. Mayor of Maryborough 1954/5

·   James Henry Porter (c1868-1940) printer, newspaper owner. Owned Porter and Salmon Printers in Freemantle. Past Master Lodge Thistle No 889 SC, Foundation Master, Lodge Corinthian 66 WAC.

·   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.

·   Edmund Tom Webb (1830-1899) storekeeper and politician. MLA MLC . Mayor of Bathurst. Methodist Lay Leader. Orangeman Involved in 1893 case of Masonic Building

·   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

·   Asdruebal James Keast CBE (1892-1980) mining engineer & company director

·   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

·   Kenneth Hunter Laidlaw (1887-1981) union official. Founded the Union, The United Bank Officers’ Association of Queensland

·   Francesco Sceusa (1851-1919) socialist, foundation member of the (Royal) Geographical Society of Australasia (1883) President Italian Working Men's Benefit Society, founded the first Italian newspaper in Australia (1885), the Italo-Australiano, A founder of the Australian Socialist League in 1890

·   Avrum “Tim” Einihovici (1895-1988) medical practitioner and Esperantist

·   Hugo Flecker (1884-1957) medical practitioner, radiotherapist, toxicologist and natural historian. Flecker Botanic Gardens, Cairns, are named in his honour.

·   Harry Samuel Taylor (1873-1932) newspaper owner

·   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, 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 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

·   Leslie Cecil Joshua Nott OBE (1895-1963) comptroller-general of prisons

·   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

·   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

·   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.

·        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.

·   Lt. Colonel Eric Campbell DSO (1893-1970) solicitor and leader of the New Guard

·   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)

·   David John McClelland (1873-1962) engineer, SEC 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

·   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

·   James Morgan (1816-1878) MLA newspaper proprietor and politician

·   Horace Bohmer Newman (1889-1968), importer and manufacturing agent, Jewish Community leader . Zionist

·   Alexander Morton (1854-1907) museum director and naturalist

·   Charles Ferris Lewis (1828-1900) 'the Father of St Arnaud'

·   Robert Adam Ritchie (1836-1891) manufacturer and politician, MLA

·   John William Israel ISO (1850-1926) Auditor General of Tasmania. First Commonwealth Auditor General, 1902-26. 1897 First President of the Board of Benevolence Tasmania. Founding President of the Civil Service Association in 1897. Master of Pacific Lodge TC (1894-95), Member Victoria Lodge No. 82 UGLV 1905-26

·   Christy Kosmas Freeleagus (1889-1957) businessman and honorary Consul to Greece. Greek Community Leader, Silver Cross of George I (1941), gold cross 1951

·   Alfred Harris (1870-1944) journalist, newspaper owner and editor , Jewish anti-Zionist, edited and printed first issue of the Hebrew Standard of Australasia.

·   George Samuel Hutton (1848-1913), accountant and Freemason. Initiated 1871. Provincial Grand Master IC (1898). PDGM IC.. First Grand Master of the New Queensland Grand Lodge of Freemasons (1904). The first building of the Freemasons' Homes at Sandgate was named Hutton. Foundation member of the Brisbane Club. CMF (1876-1897) retired as Captain. Hamilton Town Council 1902-11, Mayor in 1905-06.

·   Adolphus Marcus Hertzberg aka Adolf Hertzberg (1852-1917) businessman. Three times President Brisbane Chamber of Commerce. 4th Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Queensland (1911). President Brisbane Hebrew Congregation. Elected Alderman of Roma aged 21, Twice Mayor of Roma. Despite rain, his funeral was one of the largest in years in Brisbane

·   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

·   Malcolm John Leggoe Uren (1900-1973) OBE, journalist & intelligence officer Was a Master of Alfred Carson Lodge 267 in 1952

·   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.

·   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, 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.

·   John Bryant Stokes (1925-1979) public servant, first President Western Districts Rugby Union Football Club Initiated in 1951 into Lodge Canberra

·   William Francis Waters (1897-1968) public servant bushwalker, Boy Scout leader, holder of Silver Wolf

·   William Lushington Goodwin (1798?-1862) journalist, master of the convict transport Kains, politician, newspaper owner and editor .

·   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). Dean of Engineering at Queensland University

·   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. Initiated Clarke Lodge No 98 on 4 April 1917

·   Henry Deane Walsh (1853-1921) engineer, St John Ambulance Association Treasurer

·   Robert George Cameron (1886-1960) educationist

·   Charles William Ferdinand Trapmann (generally recorded as “C.W.F. Trapmann” ), (1838-1885) brewer& bottler, Three times Mayor of Hindmarsh , Major in VMF.

·   Bertie Richard “Bert” Milliner (1911-1975) politician and trade unionist, MLC

·   Henry Macdermott (1798-1848). Wine and Spirit Merchant Mayor of Sydney 1845. Radical Political Activist.

·   George Fuller Godfrey CBE (1904-1989) journalist and union official President of the Australian Journalists Association & witness to Japanese Submarine attack in Sydney Harbour.

·   William Eustace Maclean JP (1884-1964) engineer, chief of the Hydro Electric Commission Tasmania(1933)

·   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 Grand Lodge of Queensland 1954-7

·   William George Inglis Hayman (1897-1968) electrical engineer and educationist Haymen Road in Perth is named after him.

·   Thomas Ross (1866-1936) glassmaker. Mayor of Waterloo.

·   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 (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

·   Walter Harry Tew MBE JP (1915-2007) last Shire President, first Mayor of Knox (1963, position held four times). RAAF in WW2. Help procure 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 for him. Held 50 Year Jewel with 60 Year Bar. Initiated Peace and Loyalty Lodge No 261 (UGLV) on 6 Jan 1944. Foundation member Ranges Memorial Lodge No 745 (UGLV).

·   Frederick William Bullock (1851 –1931) auctioneer, Real Estate Agent, Mayor of Adelaide (1891-92) An early South Australian pioneer

·   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

·   Nicholas George Sparks (1857-1930) fire brigade officer, Kings Police Medal

·   John Michael Finnerty (1853-1913) mining warden and magistrate

·   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

·   Edwin Buckland MBE JP (1871-1959) Engine Driver, Miner, Farmer and Shire Councilor. Huntly Shire Councilor “the best known personality in Bendigo and the North”. Attended first meeting (1904) convened to call for the damming of Lake Eppalock and involved in the project. Involved in many community organizations including Municipal Association of Victoria (president 1946), Northern Municipal Association which he served as president for twenty-two years. Foundation and life member of the Victorian Decentralisation League, president of the Bendigo Agricultural Society and belonged to the Victorian Country Fire Authority (CFA president 1954). Initiated Golden and Corinthian Lodge No 7 (UGLV) on 9 Sept 1902. Foundation Member Campaspe Lodge No 313 UGLV, WM that Lodge 1924. Held 50 Year Jewel.

·   James Shaw (1846-1910) Builder & investor, First Mayor of Coolgardie, Mayor of Adelaide (1888)

·   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

·   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 IC.

·   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

·   Anton William Rutherford Vroland (1874-1957) educationist., text book author. President Victorian State Schools Teachers' Union, helped form Victorian Teachers' Union. Rechabite & member of the Australian Natives' Association, and a supporter of mechanics' institutes and free libraries. While at Dimboola, he campaigned for improved living conditions of Aborigines. Member The Athenaeum Lodge No 347 UGLV from 17 Sept 1926, former Lodge was Dimboola No 144 UGLV when he was likely Initiated

·   David Allen (1780-1852) Deputy Commissary General, arrived Sydney 1813. A man of poor reputation.

·   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 EC, on the 6th April, 1829.

·   Sebastian "Bass” Hodge (1833-1889) Bandsman (11th Regiment) clarinetist, 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

·   Francis “Frank” 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

·   James Brackenrig (1758?-1844?) Foundation Senior Deacon at The Australian Social Lodge No 260 IC , Private in the NSW Corps who arrived in the colony aboard the ship 'Neptune' (second Fleet).

·   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.

·   Edward Coulson (1844-1936) Initiated in 1874 in Lodge of St John in Wangaratta. First Grand Master of United Lodge of Mark Master Masons of Victoria for 38 years. Only Freemason to be Grand Master Mark and First Principal Holy Royal Arch at the same time (1912-15). Driving force behind establishing Grand Mark Victoria. Member Collingwood Council, Mayor of Collingwood (1907&1908) on the board Queens Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital. Chair of Sailors’ Homes for 17 years. Member Melbourne Tramways Trust for 15 years.

·   Frank Shann MA (1882-1943) headmaster Trinity College in Kew Melbourne. Past Master at Trinity Grammarians Lodge President of the Headmasters of the Associated Grammar Schools (1924, 1931 and 1938) and of the Headmasters' Conference of Australia

·   Alan Humphrey Croxford (1922-1985) barrister, cattle-breeder and works administrator. Elected to Doncaster and Templestowe Shire Council (1961). 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 1966-82 (MMBW). Member BOGP and Chair Centenary Committee UGLV. Initiated Chatham Lodge No 459 (UGLV) on 13 April 1943, Master of that Lodge in May 1953.

·   Nicholas Weekes (1833-1887) chemist & prominent Freemason. First Grand Secretary of Grand Lodge NSW, Mayor of Manly, died in office as Mayor & Grand Sec, laid in State at GL and 800 attended funeral and the MWGM presided over a Lodge of Sorrow. A street is named for him and GL erected a substantial memorial in Waverly Cemetery NSW

·   Edward Knight (?-1875) Chief Magistrate, Foundation Councilor and Mayor Town of Geelong (1862-63) .

·   Lewis Ormsby Martin (1870-1944) Lawyer & MLA, Mayor of Taree, legal advisor to Manning Shire Council, WM of Lodge Manning 1901-2

·   Ellis Frederick Leathwick Robinson (1839-1905) Honorary Secretary Deaf and Dumb Institution. Chair, Freemasons Benevolent Institution (NSW), Balmain Lodge No 868 EC (WM 1886)

·   Captain Philip Leigh ( c1813 - 1886) One of the earliest initiates at Australia Felix EC (WM 1851), Master of the same in 1851 took part in the Masonic demonstrations at the opening of Prince's Bridge Melbourne

·   William Robert Fitzsimmons (c1871-1926) Dentist, MLA & President Kuring-gai Shire Council

·   Henry Langhorne “Jack” Binney, JP (1875-1925) Orchardist , 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.”

·   Henry Norval Edwards (c1832-1915) cooper, boot maker, real estate agent. Twenty Years a councilor of Port Melbourne, all flags at half mast on his death in Port Melbourne. Past Master of Sandridge Marine Lodge No 21 UGLV, foundation member UGLV

·   Joseph Levi JP (1856-1944). Past Master Australia Felix Lodge. Sat on various hospital boards included Eye and Ear & Melbourne Hospital. President St Kilda Hebrew Congregation, Melbourne Jewish Philanthropic, Jewish Orphan and Neglected Child, & Anglo Jewish Societies.

·   Edward Newman JP (?-1903) Dispensing Chemist, witness Eureka Stockade Rebellion, co-founder Ballarat Benevolent Asylum, Borough Council member

·   William Stewart (1883 - 1958) Grand Secretary UGLV for 32 years (1921-1951), Mayor of Oakleigh 1918-9 & 1926-7. Initiated Oakleigh No 126 (UGLV) on 16 July 1907

·   William Samuel Foxall (c1848- 1914) Goulburn business man, Goulburn Lodge of Australia

·   Archibald Joseph White, JP (?-1939) President Gloucester Council,

·   Henry Gordon Morton JP (1825-1885) engineer, Magistrate, active in agricultural and progressive organizations

·   John Dunlop Stevenson (c1868-1931) Grand Secretary Grand Lodge of Western Australian Freemasons for 32 years. Past Master Bonnie Doon Lodge WA. Initiated St John No 1 WAC

·   Alexander Cunningham McCallum KCT MBE (c1865-1941) businessman, Director & Grand Master Western Australia 1930-33 Foundation Member Military RAC No 15 WAC

·       James Henry Cunningham (1837-1909) Grand Secretary Freemasons South Australia District Grand Secretary (EC) Initiated United Tradesman Lodge in March 1869.

·       Dr William Barlow CMG (1834-1915) barrister and university administrator, Vice-Chancellor Adelaide University First WM of Lodge St Auban

·   James Sykes Battye CBE(1871-1954) Librarian, first Chief Librarian WA, Chancellor University of Western Australia, The J S Battye Library of Western Australian History and a Street in Canberra are named for him. Grand Master WAC 1936-50. Initiated 12 April 1898 into Lodge Bonnie Doon No 839 SC.

·       Albrecht Eiler Jensen, (c1884-1946) Grand Sec WAC, Sec Miner Workers Relief Fund. Initiated Golden Square in 1908

·       Robert Kyffin Thomas (1851-1910) proprietor of The- Register and associated journals. Past Master of St Alban Lodge (1897-8)

·       Leonard Samuel Burton (1824- 1895) Chemist and Teacher, Headmaster St Georges School Gawler regarded as one of the best in the Colony. Mayor of Gawler. Leading Gawler Citizen

·       Leopold Judell (1848-1927) businessman . Foundation member and Past Master Orroroo Masonic Lodge

·   Frederick Charles Beck (1874-1936) Journalist who wrote for The Argus newspaper.. United Press Lodge No 281 UGLV & Windsor Lodge No 72 and others President Board of Benevolence 1924, Grand Treasurer 1926. Initiated Windsor Lodge in 1902

·   William Thwaites (1853–1907) civil servant & engineer working in Melbourne. First Engineer-in-Chief for the MMBW. Examiner in engineering at the University of Melbourne and in 1890 was elected to the University Council. Responsible for the design and supervision of construction of Melbourne's sewerage system. Founding member Melbourne University Lodge 171 . Initiated 1890 in Australasia Lodge No 3. Installed Master of that Lodge 1894

·   William Alexander Downie (1862-1945), Headmaster, magistrate and philanthropist. Grand Master Tasmania 1940- 42. Initiated Dorset Lodge circa 1893

·   Stanley Dryden (c 1869 – 1954), journalist & editor Launceston Examiner 1920-1933. Grand Master Tasmania 1937 Initiated Lodge of Hope No 4 TC in 1904

·   Herbert Upton Wilkinson (?-1946) printer & Grand Master Tasmania 1942-44, Rotarian. Initiated in St Andrews Lodge in 1902 .

·   Henry Lyndhurst D’Emden (1858-1952) public servant, Grand Master Tasmania (c

·   James F “Jas” Stump (c1853-1926) Headmaster, Hobart City Treasurer, President Board of Benevolence Tasmania 1908-26

·   John Cochrane Remington (c 1858-1908) businessman, Grand Master NSW 1899-1906 Initiated Volunteer Artillery Lodge 937 EC in 1871

·   John S Fitzmaurice (c1883-1924) teacher, Founder & Principal Abbotsholme College Killara

·   Francis Jackson Carter CMG CVO CBE JP (1889-1999) public servant and Grand Master Tasmania 1956-59

·   Lord Dunmore - Malcolm Kenneth Murray, Viscount Fincastle, Earl of Dunmore KSJ (1946-), peer, 12th Earl of Dunmore, member House of Lords, High Commissioner Australia and New Zealand. Peerage of Dunmore, second most senior Scottish Peerage, established 1686, of the twelve Earls, ten have been Freemasons. Initiated 8 October 1985 in Concord Lodge No 10 TC, Past Master that lodge and several others including Lodge Amalthea 914 UGLV . Foundation Master Earl of Dunmore Lodge No 1686 UGLV

·   Joseph Arthur Ellis CBE CStJ MInstCE (1887-1973) engineer, Commissioner of Railways, 1931-49, Company Director, Rotarian, Grand Master WA 1952-55. Initiated 14 December 1928 Lodge of Unity 11 WAC.

·   Frank Gamblen (1913-1996) academic, University Professor, Foundation President Western Australian Mathematics Association, visiting professor Thailand and USA. Grand Master WA 1963-66. Initiated 9 March 1935 in University Lodge No 154 WAC.

·   Anthony Fenn Kemp (1773-1868) colonial soldier, merchant. Possible first man initiated in Australia 1802 aboard the French Naval vessel Le Naturaliste, in Sydney Cove with his initiation certificate written in French. Key participant of the Rum Rebellion. Kemp’s Creek in Sydney is named for him

·   Des Manwaring OAM (?-?). Councilor Lachlan Shire in 1984-2016, Mayor from 2006 - 2015, Master, Lodge Condobolin 750, 1989- 1991. Initiated 1984.

·   William John “Big Bill” MacKay KPM (1885-1948) Policeman, Police Commissioner, Director Security Service. Initiated 19 July 1922 in Maroubea Lodge No 442 NSW, Lodge McKay No 761 GLNSW is named after him.

·   Dr James Leonard Rossiter CBE (1887-1962) headmaster, academic and Grand Master WA 1958-62. Initiated 11 June 1924 in Charters Towers Lodge No 23 GLQLD

·   Francis Jackson Carter CMG CBE, public servant, Grand Master Tasmania 1956

·   Frank Prosser Bowden (1860-1934) telegraph & telephone manager Pacific Lodge TC, Grand Master Tasmania 1929-31

·   Fredrick Derek Osmond Fielding AM (1929-2014) who was the University of Queensland Librarian 1965-1992, Pro Vice-chancellor (Academic Services), and President of the Queensland Council of Civil Liberties from 1975 to 1979.

·   Francis William Sutton Cumbrae-Stewart, (1865-1938) lawyer, university administrator and teacher, Professor of Law at the University of Queensland and Foundation Registrar of the University of Queensland.

·   Alfred Henry Pretty (c1874-1929) signwriter and decorator. Member and Mayor of the Thebarton Town Council. Initiated in St Andrew's Lodge in 1907

·   Fred Johns Crescent (1868-1923) journalist and biographer,

·   James Robert Robinson (1867-1928) teacher. Head prep school at Prince Alfred College. Initiated Lodge Leopold, Adelaide and held many Masonic offices.

·   John Abbott JP (c1868-1938) Leading Citizen and President Dandenong Shire Council, member 1910-22. Foundation member Australian Natives’ Association. “Brought electric light to Dandenong” Lodge of Sincerity .

·   Allan Gordon Ezzy AM APM (1942-), police officer, police prosecutor, President Holroyd Rotary Club and holds Paul Harris Fellowship, Councilor of Holroyd City for almost 40 years, Mayor of Holroyd. Prosecutor in the Anita Cobby and Tess DeBrincat murder trials. Initiated in 1964. Member Lodge Resurgo No 223 GLNSW&ACT

·   Maurice Herman “Harry” Kellerman, OBE (1902-2000) educator, expert on distance education, renowned Masonic researcher. The “Kellerman Lecture” on Masonic education is named in his honour. Initiated Lodge Apsley in 1924, PM other lodges including Research Lodge of NSW (75-77) GLNSW&ACT

·   Arnold Robert Kopp MBE DFC, (1923-2016) 37 Operational Missions (twice the average) over Europe during WW2, director of Social Services in Victoria, Initiated in the Doric Lodge in 1949, pivotal role with the Freemasons’ Hospital gaining Accreditation for the first time. Consultant to many Victorian hospitals seeing full Accreditation

·   Dr John Sinclair AO (1939 – 2019), pioneering environmentalist, Global 500 Roll of Honour, The Goldman Environmental Prize (1993), Marbyborough Lodge UGLV QLD

·   Richard Willmore Chenoweth OBE (1886-1965). Deputy Commission of Taxation in Victoria (1930-1951). First Grand Principal Holy Royal Arch Victoria (1953-1954). Initiated Pentalpha Lodge No 90 UGLV 1924.

·   William Duncan Kennedy (1891-1964). School Teacher and notable in the Scouting Movement. 25th First Grand Principal Holy Royal Arch Victoria. Foundation Member Baden Powell Lodge No 488 UGLV. Initiated Windsor Lodge No 72 UGLV in 1922

·   Norman Llewellyn Brunt (?-1978). Cranbourne Turf Club (1952) and Shire President 1963-64. 26th Fist Grand Principal Holy Royal Arch Victoria( 1959-61) leaving a large bequest allowing Grand Chapters to purchase equity in Centre East Chambers which became that body’s home. A founder Cranbourne Lodge No 290 UGLV. Initiated Lodge of Sincerity 1917

·   David Swan JP (1900-1980) Mayor of Hawthorn (1953-54), Chair St George’s Hospital. 27th First Grand Principal Holy Royal Arch Victoria (1961-63). Initiated East Suburban Lodge No 396 UGLV on 6 Feb 1928. Received 50 Year Jewel and died affiliated.

·   Clement Roy Nichols CMG OBE (1909- 1996) Scouting Movement. 32nd First Grand Principal Holy Royal Arch Victoria (1969-71). Initiated Duke of Richmond Lodge No 39 UGLV 27 March 1928

·   Michael Cashmore (1815 – 1886) merchant & community leader. Director National Bank of Australia. First Jewish settler in Melbourne where he became a community leader. First Jew to be: elected to Melbourne City Council, appointed Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate in Colony. His haberdashery business was in Melbourne's first brick building, "Cashmore's Corner" at 1 Elizabeth Street. Founding Member of Australia Felix Lodge (now No1) & First Master of Prince of Wales Lodge No 40 UGLV

·   Michael Clements (1857-1936) President Shire of Moorabbin 1905-06, 1923-25. Initiated Moorabbin Lodge in 1902, PM that Lodge and also Foundation Master Ensign Lodge

·   David Scott Wilson JP (c1840-1914) twice Mayor of Albury. Grand Master MUIOOF NSW. Member Combermere (EC) Mark Masons and Combermere (EC) Royal Arch Chapter

·   Thomas William Blake (1902-1967), JP, Councilor (1938-1950) and Mayor of Preston, 1945/1946 . Initiated Price Regent Lodge No 538 UGLV on 15 Feb 1940. Foundation Member (1945) and WM Vision No 567 UGLV 1948-49

·   Frederick Band (1859 - ?) Jeweler & Watchmaker. Joined Unity and Prudence Lodge No 5 (UGLV) on 25 March 1891. Master that Lodge June 1910, resigned 13 July 1933

·   Captain James Henry Pease Heslehurst (C1835 – 1911). Brisbane Pioneer. Initiated circa 1864, member North Australia Lodge (QLD) in 1909. For more than 40 years worked for Harbours and Rivers Department. First man to open up the ports of the Gulf.

·   Peter Allan (c1861-1925). Cairns Pioneer. Allan St Bungalow named after him.. Maintenance inspector Cairns railways. President Cairns Hospital. Leading Freemason, Allan Masonic Lodge named after him. Member Loyal Trinity Lodge MUIOOF.

·   Barron Lewis Barnett JP (1843-c1926?) Merchant. Honorary Consul for Italy in the Colony of Queensland. DDGM EC (1882-1905). Loyally served his Mother Constitution whiles also advocating establishing a Queensland Grand Lodge. Returned to England 1903, advised not returning 1905. Barron Barnett Lodge No 146 Lodge of Research UGLQ named after him. Initiated Prince of Wales Lodge on 7 Sept 1869, Brisbane.

·   David Mitchell (c1870-1950) Auctioneer. First native Mayor of Stawell, installed as WM of Euroka Morning Star Lodge No 44 in 15 June 1916. Initiated 28 Aug 1902 in Morning Star Lodge No 95 (UGLV)

·   Thomas James Rothwell OBE (1869-1928) tailor & businessman and advocate of the City of Brisbane. President of the RACQ. Prominent Freemason in many Masonic Orders

·   Captain Thomas Swiggs (1820-1903) well know Port Adelaide resident. RN, served with Sir Charles Hotham in a vessel “very successful in suppressing the slave trade”. Assisted in forming the first Masonic Lodge in Port Adelaide. Member Birkenhead District Council.

·   James Bain Makin (1855-1933), Sheep Station Manager including of “The Monster” (SA), early pioneer of Tatiara and Keith District. Tatirara Council for 40 years. Foundation member of Tatiara Soldiers Memorial Hospital. Chief of the Tatiara Caledonian Society. Developed the “Ninety Miles Desert”. Foundation Treasurer Tatiara Masonic Lodge retaining that position until his death. Given the honour of laying the Foundation Stones of Bordertown Masonic Temple (1925) and Makin Building (1927) which is named for him. Makin, “Hundred of Makin” (cadastral unit) & Makin Memorial Institute (1935) is also all named for him.

·   Thomas Stephen Burstow Esq (1857-1928) furniture maker and retailer, District Grand Master of Scottish Freemasonry in Queensland (1907-1920). Three times Mayor of Toowoomba (1904, 1907 & 1919). Three times President Local Authorities Association. First Grand Master United Grand Lodge Queensland (UGLQ). Past Grand Commander Rose Croix, Past First Grand Principal Royal Arch,

·   Wayne Lee Smith (1957-2023). Army Officer and Distinguished Freemason. Sword and Protocol expert. Drum Major of City of Heidelberg Brass Band. Grand Secretary Mark Master Masons Victoria and Grand Scribe Royal Arch Chapter, 1991-2000 and then 2013-2023. Died in Office. Initiated Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge No 584 UGLV on 1 March 1979. \

·   William Martin Boyce (1809-1882) Civil Servant. Naval Lieutenant in East India Company 1829-1846 with pension of £125 per year. Brisbane's first Town Clerk. Town Clerk of Toowoomba. Town Clerk of South Barwon (Geelong, Victoria). Provincial Grand Master of Queensland under the Scottish Constitution. Installed on 17 April 1866-1875. Founder of Knight Templar Freemasonry in Queensland. Honourary Secretary Queensland Rifle Association (mentions “late of Indian Navy”).

·   Major Lars Larsen CMF (1859-1930) builder and contractor. WM Queensland in 1909

·   Ronald Lewis Hale Johnson AM (?-2024) Sales, Sales Training and PR. 30th Grand Master UGLNSW&ACT (1988-1992). Foundation member NSW Institute for Training and Development. Chairman of the Masonic Hospital, President and Patron of Frank Whiddon Masonic Homes, and Chairman. Initiated Lodge Blacktown No 393 UGLNSW on 10 July 1954. Held 70 Year Jewel.

·   Noel Frederick Dunn OAM (1992-1996) Engineer. 31st Grand Master UGLNSW. President of the Frank Whiddon Masonic Homes of NSW. Initiated in The Sir Walter Scott Lodge No 123 in 1952

·   Rev Raymond Charles Green (1939-), Minister of Religion. Australian Army and RAAF Reserve Chaplain. 30th Grand Master UGLNSW&ACT (1996-2000)

·   George Richard Curry (1941-) Engineer 33rd Grand Master UGLNSW (2000-2002). Initiated Lodge Stanmore No 366 in Dec 1965

·   Raymond Barry Brooke (c1944-2020) Businessman. 35th Grand Master UGLNSW. (2005-2008). Initiated into Lodge Guilford.

·   Dr Gregory Henry Levenston GP. (?-?) Doctor. Woollahra Municipal Council Deputy Mayor. Chair of the Board of Variety, the Children's Charity NSW/ACT and a member of the Variety Australia Board. 36th Grand Master UGLNSW (2009-2011)

·   Derek James Robson AM CMH RAN (Retired). National Secretary of the RSL 37th and 39th Grand Master of UGLNSW&ACT (2011-2015 & 2018-2021

·   William Goodacre JP (1871-1949) farmer. Windsor Lodge No. 290, UGLQ. Prominent Freemason and Farmer: Supreme Grand R. A. Chapter of Queensland: Brisbane Queensland Rose Cross Chapter No.9: Queensland Consistory No.6: Lutwyche Royal Arch Chapter No.72: Windsor Bowling Club: Windsor Town Council alderman Town– Goodacre St is named for him. He served on the council from 1921 until the final council in 1925.

·   Stuart Laing Mock (1936-2012) local business & sportsman. President of the Jersey Cattle Clubs Association of Victoria, Rodney Shire Council (1973-83); president (1977-78).

·   Karl Reginald Cramp, OBE, MA, FRAHS (1878 - 1956) . Academic, Chief Examiner, School Inspector (1923-1943) Historian, & Author. Deputy Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales in 1948. President (1921, 1928-29, 1937-39, 1953) & Secretary (1915-20, 1922-27, 1930-36, 1943-44) Royal Historical Society. Initiated Lodge University of Sydney in January 1925, WM that lodge 1934-35;

·   Lieutenant Jack Neilsen EDDY (1913 –c1994?). Municipal Clerk and Shire of Wodonga Shire Secretary. Captured Battle of Crete (20 May to 1 June 1941) on 1 June 1941. POW Germany 1941-1945, Oflag X-C, Oflag VI-B, Oflag VII-B, Front Stalag. Studied accounting when POW. Initiated Echuca Lodge No 577 UGLV on 1 June 1946. Joined Wodonga Lodge No 156 on 15 Oct 1947 (resigned 10 Dec 1954), Foundation Member Lodge Belvoir No 727 (4 Oct 1952, resigned 31 Dec 1967). Sec and Life Member Warburton Bowls Club. Joined Donna Buang Lodge No 324 (10 Jan 1959)

·   Frederick George Usher (1863-1941), Shoe Retailer. One of the Founders of the Freemasons Hospital (Melb). Past Master Citizens Masonic Lodge No 166 and its treasurer for 31 years. Also Ancient Order Of Foresters.

·   William Vial (c1815-1878), coach builder. Masonic Lodge Master, helped organize charity picnic at Clontarf to welcome Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (Fourth child, second son of Queen Victoria) on 12 March 1868 which saw an assassination attempt on the Prince where he was shot, William Vial had managed to disrupt a second shot and wrest the gun away from Henry James O'Farrell (1833-1868, executed). This is said to be the first Royal Visit to Australia and first political assassination attempt. Vial was a member of a Scottish Constitution Lodge, but presented a PM Jewel from Australian Lodge of Harmony No 556 UGLE in recognition of his saving the Prince and being a PM

·   Raymond Eric “Ray” Fisher (1894-1965) businessman and co-founder “Uncle Bobs Club” est 1942 which supports the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. The founders of the Uncle Bobs Club, Alf Clark, Ray Fisher, Jock McAdam and Clarrie Williams. Initiated Wattle Valley Lodge No 424 UGLV on 7 March 1934, WM that Lodge 1942-43

·   Henry Hattam (1830-1876), Miner. Councillor 1871-1876. Mayor of Sandhurst, died in office. Member Golden and Corinthian and Zenith Lodges of Freemasons

·   Thomas Bragg (1856-1921) innovative wheat farmer & Dubbo Pioneer.

·   Victor John William "Vic" Skermer CBE (1908 –1992), public servant and Auditor General (1961-1973)

·   Walter James Tuck MBE (1883-1977), pumber. President Mirboo Shire (1949). Initiated Commonwealth Lodge No 186 UGLV on 11 Sept 1913, Master that Lodge 1921, received 60 Year Jewel.

·   Walter Nathaniel McMillan JP (1882-1958), baker, theatre proprieter. Owned Star Ballroom Theatre in Shepparton, demolished 1962 and became site of The Star Bowl was established in Shepparton in 1963 on former site. Shepparton Councillor. Initiated Goulburn Valley St George No 73 on 17 Oct 1913. WM that Lodge in May 1925 and held Masonic rank of PDGM (1952)

·   Ralph Tompson JP (1881-1951) occupation, secretary. Sec of Nathalia (1923), Shepparton (1928-c1943) Agrriciltural Societies. President Shepparton Bowling Society and Sec for 14 years. Sec GV Trotting Club. Initiated Goulburn Valley St George Lodge No 73 UGLV on 6 Feb 1931

·   Lord David Michael Baden-Powel (1940-2023), known for scouting and as 4th Lord (Baron) Baden Powell of Gilwell. Received Silver Koala and Silver Kangaroo awards. Initiated Baden Powell Lodge No 488 UGLV (Lodge named after his Grandfather) on 24 Nov 1980. WM that Lodge 1998, conferred PJGW (2020).

Return to Table of Contents 

Suggested names needing further research

Click on the above title to be taken to that page.

Suggested names needing further evidence, without further evidence currently being found

Click on the above title to be taken to that page.

Proving a Premier – Sir John Downer, South Australia

·       John William Downer, KCMG, KC (6 July 1843 – 2 August 1915) federationalist, lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of South Australia, twice Premier. Attorney-General. Member of Constitutional Committee 1897 and sat in First Parliament of Australia following Federation. MLA MLC

Sir John Downer was twice Premier of South Australia and was a significant Federationalist. He is not listed anywhere I can find as a Freemason, however significantly 1885 'GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF VICTORIA.', The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), 13 July, p. 6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article191195513 carried the line “Bro. Downer, the present Premier of South Australia, had an interview with the Grand Secretary...” (of Grand Lodge Victoria, the forerunner to United Grand Lodge Victoria). UGLV was founded in 1889 and GLV in 1883, but did not achieved regularity and mainly consisted of Irish Lodges. The date of the article fits with Downer’s Premiership, however I (and GLSA&NT) cannot currently find any collaborating evidence. His association with the unrecognised GLV might have tainted him in some way, and he is listed as “Brother” indicating he had not advanced far in Freemasonry of which there is no mention of in his funeral notices.

Inquires with the Grand Lodge of South Australia have not been able to find anything. They advise;

A careful search of available library records has revealed no direct Masonic connection for Sir John Downer. The “S.A. Freemason” publication covering that period particularly would probably have had some mention of Sir John because of his great prominence in this State and Federally if he had been a Freemason. I am sure that the Grand Master Brother concerned was Most Worshipful Brother Henry Edward Downer, the brother of Sir John. Charles R A Glover’s “First Fifty Years of Freemasonry in South Australia’ contains references to H E Downer as District Grand Master in 1869 and as Provincial Grand Master in 1870. This would I feel sure be under the jurisdiction of United Grand Lodge of England. Other references include him as Master Elect in The United Tradesmens Lodge, and as Junior Grand Deacon in 1860. “The Supreme Federalist” – “The Political Life of Sir John Downer” by the Hon. Dr. John Bannon who was Premier of South Australia 1982-1992, also has no mention of a Masonic connection. A photograph of Sir John and a photograph of his grave monument in that book show no Masonic emblems. It has been most interesting to follow up your enquiry and to make contact with you Brother Damian as Editor of Devotion News, Lodge Devotion 723 UGLV and you Brother Ange at the UGLV Library and Museum. With kindest fraternal greetings for the festive season and best wishes for the new year, yours, John Rand. PGPsvt. Library Assistant

On many occasions I have been able to “prove” Masonic Membership of famous men through several primary and secondary sources. I would like any assistance readers can give in substantiating yet another South Australian Premier as a Freemason.

Proving a Premier – George Leake, Western Australia

Sir Luke Samuel Leake (1828-1886) merchant and Speaker of the House MLC was a Freemason. He is the Brother of George Leake who was the Third Premier of Western Australia. While researching, I noted that the Grand Master attended George’s funeral. This might be because George was a notable public figure, but there might be more to it, especially as there are further suggestions of George’s association with Freemasonry, but given the Craft’s standing at the time, and a possible connection via family, attendance and references to Freemasonry might be because of this. For instance, my own father, not a Freemason, has sat with the Grand Master in a lodge, when the public were admitted. It is a mistake to take such references as definite proof of Masonic Membership, but in George’s case, there is a “vibe” to the references which suggests he may have been a Freemason, but these suggestions do not meet the burden of proof for inclusion as a Freemason in this list. Can anyone assist?

·       George Leake CMG KC (1856 –1902) was the third Premier of Western Australia, serving from May to November 1901 and then again from December 1901 to his death. Possible -

Sometimes Claimed, Unlikely to be Freemasons

Click on the above title to be taken to that page. 

Observations

·   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 Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney might be a good institution to 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), associated: Richard Williams, George Jones, William Bostock, Adrian Cole

Sources

Sources for inclusion of names are recorded in the endnotes. These are only included in PDF versions of the list.

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.

Initially, my methodology was to think of a famous 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. Names are now being supplied to me by fellow Freemasons and the public – thank you ! When supplying a name, please do cite a source.

A COMMENT ON WIKIPEDIA

I rarely use a single source for Masonic Membership and look to add names when supported by a number of reliable sources. The reputation of Wikipedia as a source is mixed. No name is added to the list just on the basis of a Wikipedia article. I do cite Wikipedia occasionally because it seems dishonest not to do so if it has given me leads and context to allow further research.

 Return to Table of Contents 

Sources - Web Sites of Note

Web sites used are retained in this list even if they go off line. Such sites can sometimes 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