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employed at his wish to form a fund to be invested “for the relief of distinguished
Brethren who may have become distressed, their Widows, or Relations dependent
upon them”. The fund, applied for the relief of past Grand Lodge Officers who
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have fallen on evil times, is still in being.
[12 February 1884] Resolved that the W.M. do inform Bro. Sir William
Hewett, Commander in chief of Her Majesty’s Forces in Suakin that his Brethren
of the Nine Muses Lodge are watching with deep interest his efforts to relieve
those in distress and to uphold the honor of his country and that they heartily
wish him success in his undertaking and afterwards a speedy return to the Lodge.
Sir William Hewett had a distinguished career as a sailor; he was one of the
first to receive the V.C., in 1857; see Appendix A (1881) and footnote 23.
4 April 1884. Two-and-a-ha1f pages of the minutes are taken up with an
address to the Grand Master, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, on the death of his
brother, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albauy, which took place on 28 March 1884.
Prince Leopold, born in 1853, was the youngest son of Queen Victoria.
[9 February 1892] Resolved That we the members of the Lodge of the Nine
Muses deeply sympathize with that magnetic feeling which ran through not only
the Masonic Craft but the British nation from one end to the other, of bitter
sorrow for the loss of H.R.H. the M.W. Prov.G.M. the Duke of Clarence K.G.
and of the deep and earnest sympathy for H.R.H. the M.W. Grand Master and
the other members of the Royal Family.
It will be remembered that the Duke of Clarence, the elder brother of the
future King George V, died in 1892 at the early age of 28. He was Provincial
Grand Master of Berkshire from 1890 till his death.
12 March 1895. At the banquet the late Bro. Sadler gave the discourse on the
history of the Lodge to which reference has been made before; it was reported
at length in The Freemason for 25 March 1895, and has been drawn on freely in
this work. Bro. Sadler, who died in 1911, was Grand Tyler from 1879 to 1909. He
was a profound student of Masonic history and wrote learnedly on the subject.
8 November 1898. Notice was given of a motion to be proposed at the next
meeting “that Thomas Murero, Head Waiter at the Grand Hotel be initiated as
a Serving Brother subject to a dispensation from Grand Lodge being obtained”.

62 Now incorporated in the ‘Masonic Samaritan Fund’, the word ‘New’ being dropped from
title in 2007.