19th C Provincial Grand Masters of Glasgow 1805 - Sir John Stuart 4th Baronet of Allanbank Master of Lodge St. Ebbe No 70 and the Lodge of Holyrood House (St. Luke’s) No 44 Senior Grand Warden 1788-1790 H.M. Commissioner of Excise at Edinburgh
1813 - John Maxwell Esq., the Younger of Pollok, later Sir John Maxwell 8th Baronet of Pollok Master of Pollokshaws Royal Arch Lodge No 153 1821-24 Provincial Grand Master for Renfrewshire East 1826-1866 Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire 1818-1830 Member of Lanarkshire 1832-1837 1827 - Henry Monteith of Carstairs D.L. M.P. Master of St Mark's Lodge at Glasgow No 102 Lord Dean of Guild 1818-1819 Lord Provost of Glasgow 1814-1816, 1818-1820 Member of Parliament for Linlithgow Burghs 1820-1826, 1830-1831 Founder Member of The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce 1783 1847 - Sir Archibald Alison 1st Baronet, G.C.B. LL.D. D.C.L. F.R.S.E. Master of St Mark's Lodge at Glasgow No 102 Sheriff of Lanarkshire Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen 1845 Lord Rector of Glasgow University 1852 (see P.22) 1867 - Captain Archibald Alexander Speirs 4th of Elderslie D.L. M.P. Master Mason The Prince of Wales Lodge No 259(English Constitution) Master Mason The Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No 1 Honorary Member (Affiliate) The Lodge of Glasgow St Mungo No 27 Junior Grand Warden in The United Grand Lodge of England 1867-1868 Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire 1865-1868 Commissioned in the Scots Fusilier Guards Sadly died aged 28 of gastric fever. [See May 2022 edition for a fuller article.]
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