Famous 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 Sir William "Billy" Butlin (1899 - 1980) |
Actors |
William Abbott (1789 – 1843) David Garrick (1717 - 1779) Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905) Edmund Kean (1787 - 1833) Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902 - 1968) |
Writers |
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Edward Gibbon (1734 - 1794) Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) Robert 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 |
Jim Davidson Cyril Fletcher (1913 - 2005) Geraldo Nat Jackley Sir Harry Lauder (1870 - 1950) Alfred Marks David Nixon (1919 - 1978) Edmundo Ross Cyril Stapleton Tommy Trinder (1909 - 1989) Jimmy Wheeler Roger de Courcey |
Sportsmen |
Harold Abrahams (1899 - 1978) Jackie Milburn (1924 - 1988) Sir Donald Campbell (1921 - 1967) Malcolm Campbell (1885 - 1948) Sir Leonard Hutton (1916 - 1990) Jock Stein (1922 - 1985) Sir Alec Rose (1908 - 1991) Sir Clive Lloyd (1944 - ) Jim Peters Sir Arthur Gold Trevor Simpson Len Shackleton Joe Wade Leslie Compton Herbert Sutcliffe Bill Bowes Sir Thomas Lipton (1850 - 1931) William 'Jack' Dempsey (1895 - 1983) 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) |
... please remember that for every world famous Freemason there are countless "everyday" gentlemen who choose to join The Craft - and every brother is an equal.