PROMINENT PERSONS IN HISTORY WHO WERE FREEMASONS
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)
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)
Entertainers
Sir Harry Lauder
David Nixon
Cyril Fletcher
Geraldo
Nat Jackley
Alfred Marks
Jim Davidson
Edmundo Ross
Cyril Stapleton
Tommy Trinder
Jimmy Wheeler
Roger de Courcey
Rick Wakeman
Sportsmen
Harold Abrahams
Jackie Milburn
Sir Donald Campbell
Malcolm Campbell
Sir Leonard Hutton
Jock Stein
Sir Alec Rose
Sir Clive Lloyd
Jim Peters
Sir Arthur Gold
Trevor Simpson
Len Shackleton
Joe Wade
Leslie Compton
Herbert Sutcliffe
Bill Bowes
Sir Thomas Lipton
William ‘Jack’ Dempsey
Arnold Palmer
Tony Allcock
Peter Ebdon
Mark Wildman
Army
General Sir John Moore (1761 – 1809)
Field Marshal 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 – 1852)
Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832 – 1914)
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850 – 1916)
Field Marshal Sir John French, Earl of Ypres (1852 – 1925)
Field Marshal Earl Haig (1861 – 1928)
General Sir Francis Wingate (1861 – 1953)
Field Marshal Garnett, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1883 – 1913)
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884 – 1981)
Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891 – 1969)
Navy
Admiral Sir Sidney Smith (1764 – 1840)
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (1841 – 1919)
Admiral Earl Jellicoe (1859 – 1935)
Royal Air Force
Marshal of the RAF, Lord Newall (1886 – 1963)
PROMINENT PERSONS IN THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA WHO WERE FREEMASONS
Commissioner General Jacob Abraham de Mist
Chief Justice of the Cape, Sir Johannes Andries Truter
Abraham Chiron
Johan Coenraad Gie
die Ridder, Francois Reynier Duminy
Painter and sculptor, Anton Anreith (one of his masterpieces form part of the world famous pulpit in “die Grootte Kerk,” Cape Town.)
Major Thibault the architect.
Herman Schutte, the builder
Christoffel Brand, grandfather of Sir Christoffel Josephus Brand
Johannes Henricus Brand, his son, and
Sir Christoffel Josephus Brand.
Francois Willem Reitz, president of the Orange Free State and honourary member of Lodge Star of Africa in Jagersfontein
Marthinus Theunis Steyn, president of the Orange Free State.
Martinus Wessel Pretorius, president of the Transvaal and later of the O.F.S..
Abraham de Smidt, Johannes Henoch Neethling, Michiel Servaas van Breda.
The first Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, Lord de Villiers.
Ds. T.P.Burgers, a Dutch Reformed Minister and later president of the Transvaal.
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer (Onse Jan)
Cornelius Jacob Langenhoven, writer.
Commandant General Petrus Jacobus Joubert (When the son of Lord Roberts – also a Freemason – fell during the seige of Ladysmith Generaal Piet Joubert sent a cablegram of condolences to Lord Roberts.)
Commandant Danie Theron.
General Louis Botha, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
General Ben Viljoen.
The Rev. D.P.Faure.
Dr. Stephanus,the senior minister of “die Grootte Kerk” from 1837 to 1873. (In an open meeting of Synod on a certain occasion he courageously and with success, repelled an isolated attack on his association with Freemasonry.)