Famous Masons

Famous Mason: 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis.
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Monarchs

King George IV (1762 - 1830)
King William IV (1765 - 1837)
King Edward VII (1841 - 1910)
King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
King George VI (1895 - 1952)

Statesmen

Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
George Canning (1770 - 1827)
Lord Randolph Churchill (1849 - 1895)
Cecil Rhodes (1852 - 1903)
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Leopold S. Amery (1873 - 1955)

Religion

Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (1887 - 1972)
Sir Israel Brodie (1895 - 1979)

Scientists

Sir Joseph Banks (1744 - 1820)
Dr Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823)
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955)
Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877 - 1947)

Explorers

Sir Richard Burton (1821 - 1890)
Capt Robert Falcon Scott, RN (1868 - 1912)
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922)

Charity

Dr T. J. Barnardo (1845 - 1905)
1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851 - 1925)
Sir William “Billy” Butlin (1899 - 1980)

Actors

David Garrick (1717 - 1779)
Edmund Kean (1787 - 1833)
Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905 )
Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902 - 1968)
Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
Ernest Borgnine (1917 - 2012)

Writers

Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Edward Gibbon (1734 - 1794)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
Robbie Burns (1759 - 1796)
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Sir William S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

Artists

Sir James Thornhill (1676 - 1734)
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
John Zoffany (1733 - 1810)
Sir John Soane (1753 - 1837)

Music

Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778) Rule Britannia
Samuel Wesley (1766 - 1837)
Sir Henry Bishop (1786 - 1855) Home Sweet Home
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
Nathaniel Adams Coles (’Nat King Cole’) (1919 - 1965)

Entertainers

Sir Harry Lauder (1879 - 1950)
David Nixon (1919 - 1978)
Cyril Fletcher (1913 - 2005)
Geraldo (1904 - 1974)
Nat Jackley (1909 - 1988)
Alfred Marks OBE (1921 - 1996)
Jim Davidson OBE (b:1953)
Edmundo Ros OBE (1910 - 2011)
Cyril Stapleton (1914 - 1974)
Tommy Trinder CBE (1909 - 1989)
Jimmy Wheeler (1910 - 1970)
Oliver Hardy (1892 - 1957)
Roger de Courcey (b:1944)
Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926)
Harry H Corbett OBE (1925 - 1982)
‘Bud’ Abbott (1895 - 1974)

Sportsmen

Harold Abrahams CBE (1899 - 1978)
‘Jackie’ Milburn (1924 - 1988)
Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885 - 1948)
Sir Donald Campbell CBE (1921 - 1967)
Sir Leonard ‘Len’ Hutton (1916 - 1990)
John ‘Jock’ Stein (1922 - 1985)
Sir Alec Rose (1908 - 1991)
Sir Clive Lloyd CBE, AO (b:1941)
Jim Peters (1918 - 1999)
Sir Arthur Gold (1917 - 2002)
Trevor Simpson
Len Shackleton (1922 - 2000)
Joe Wade (1921 - 2005)
Leslie Compton (1912 - 1984)
Herbert Sutcliffe (1894 - 1978)
Bill Bowes (1908 - 1987)
Sir Thomas Lipton Bt, KCVO 1848 - 1931)
William ‘Jack’ Dempsey (1895 - 1983)
Arnold Palmer (b: 1929)
Sugar Ray Robinson(1921 - 1989)
Tony Allcock MBE (b: 1955)
Sir ‘Alf’ Ramsey (1920 - 1999)
Peter Ebdon (b:1970)
Mark Wildman (b: 1936)
“Smokin’ Joe” Frazier (1944 - 2011)

Army

General Sir John Moore (1761 - 1809)
Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington KG (1769 - 1852)
Field Marshal The Earl Roberts of Kandahar VC, KG, KP (1832 - 1914)
Field Marshal The Earl Kitchener of Khartoum KG, KP (1850 - 1916)
Field Marshal Sir John French, 1st Earl of Ypres KP (1852 - 1925)
Field Marshal The Earl Haig KT (1861 - 1928)
General Sir Reginald Wingate Bt, GCB, GCVO, GBE, KCMG, DSO, TD (1861 - 1953)
Field Marshal The Viscount Wolseley KP (1883 - 1913)
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck GCB, GCIE, CSI, DSO, OBE (1884 - 1981)
Field Marshal The Earl Alexander of Tunis KG (1891 - 1969)
William Cody ‘Buffalo Bill’ (1846 - 1917)
Lieutenant-Colonel ‘Paddy’ Maine DSO*** (1915 - 1955)

Navy

Admiral Sir Sidney Smith KCB(1764 - 1840)
Admiral The Lord Beresford GCB, GCVO (1841 - 1919)
Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Jellicoe GCB, OM, GCVO, SGM (1859 - 1935)

Royal Air Force

Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Newall GCB, OM, GCMG, CBE, AM (1886 - 1963)
Squadron Leader Henry Melvin “Dinghy” Young DFC* (1915 - 1943)