Brother Edward Gibbon May 8th 1737 – January 16th 1794 Member of: Lodge of Friendship #3, London England English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes...
Brother Andrew Bell 1726–1809 Member of: St. David Lodge #36, Edinburgh, Scotland Scottish engraver and printer, who co-founded Encyclopædia Britannica with Colin Macfarquhar. Brother Bell produced almost all of the copperplate engravings for the 1st-4th editions of...
Brother Ralph Waldo Emerson The Transcendentalist A Lecture read by Ralph Waldo Emerson at the Masonic Temple, Boston, January, 1842 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England, at the present time, is, that they are not...
Brother Norman Vincent Peale May 31st 1898 – December 24th 1993 Member of: Midwood Lodge No. 1062, Brooklyn, N.Y. Grand Chaplain for the Grand Lodge of New York 1949-1951 Ordained a Methodist Episcopal minister, Dr. and Brother Norman Vincent Peale was the...
Brother Robert Burns January 25th 1759 – July 21st 1796 Member of: Lodge St. David (Tarbolton) Mauchline No.133 in Scotland Also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded...
