Special Meeting of Apollo University Lodge No.357 (EC) The installation meeting of this lodge was and J. C. Bodley of Balliol College as Senior held in February, 1876 at the University Ma- Secretary. sonic Hall, Oxford. Bro. Brown-Cave PM presided at the opening and raised 8 brethren. Hearty good wishes were expressed by Lord Methuen from Wiltshire; by Lord Shrewsbury At three o'clock the master, Bro. the Rev Pick- from Staffordshire, by Colonel Campbell of ard, presided and raised two brethren in Blythswood from Renfrewshire (actually which he was assisted by Bro. Prince Leopold PGM of Renfrewshire East and in 1885 the SW (youngest son of Queen Victoria). This Grand Master Mason of Scotland) and by Bro. was his mother lodge joining while at Christ Mclntyre QC, from Grand Lodge (London). Church College and proposed by his brother, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales master at Due to his blood condition, he was unable to that time and later King. He would become pursue a military career but he maintained an PGM of Oxfordshire shortly after serving until honorary association. From 1881 served as the his death in 1884 at only 30 due to haemo- first Colonel-in-Chief of the Seaforth Highlandphilia. After this, the ceremony of installation ers who paraded at his funeral. was performed by Bro. Pickard. Among the distinguished brethren present were the Earl Mainly taken from The Freemason newspaper of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Lord De' Tabley, in 1876. Lord Methuen, Colonel Burdett and various others. Bro. Prince Leopold was attended by the Controller of his Household, Bro. Collins CB, and his Equerry-in-waiting, the Hon. Alex Yorke. The Immediate Past Master presented Prince Leopold to the Master to receive at his hands the benefit of installation. The Master then duly installed him, in the presence of a board of installed Masters, numbering 36 brethren. The Prince showed his proficiency as a student of Freemasonry and invested his officers for the year including Reginald Bird, Deputy Provincial Grand Master of Oxford (VicePrincipal of Magdalen College) as Treasurer
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