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he influenced that Prince to become a Mason, warranting a special Lodge, the
Prince of Wales’s Lodge to support him and, upon the death of H.R.H. the Duke of
Cumberland, the Prince was persuaded to accept the Grand Mastership. It seems most
likely that this was Ruspini’s aim. The Earl of Effingham was a very sick man and,
two years before the death of the Duke of Cumberland, he resigned on appointment
as Governor of the Island of Granada. The Duke appointed the Earl of Moira in his
stead. This must have been a surprise to Ruspini. He probably had no idea that Moira
was even a Freemason (and history still has no proof that he was.) It is also surprising
that he never joined the Prince’s personal Lodge, he being his closest friend and
supporter.
There is much more that I could tell you in favour of this logical sequence. Rightly,
Ruspini’s Crest was a Dove bearing an Olive Branch.

“An address delivered to the Lodge of the Nine Muses No. 235 by
W.Bro. P.J. DAWSON P.G.D., at the Installation Banquet on Tuesday
25th March 1980.

P.J.D. February 1980