Pictures of Past Masters

Pictures of Past Masters.cont

W Bro Walter Charles Canton. Master 1877.

W Bro Chas Ring. Our 4th Master in 1872 and then again in 1879. W Bro Ring served the Lodge as Treasurer from 1874 until 1889 and was one of our most respected members of the time. He also served as our DC for many years and in 1905 was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation by the Lodge members to recognise his 12th year as Secretary. (Click here).

W Bro Ring remained a member for many years and was voted in as an Honorary Member in 1905 the first member to be so honoured.

The last mention of Bro Ring is in 1907 when he last attended the Lodge. From the records it can be seen that another Ring also became a Master of our Lodge in 1906-07. This is thought to have been his son.

W Bro Archer Smith a Timber Merchant on the Old Kent Road, was proposed by W Bro Henry Wood and W Bro Chas Ring. He was initiated on Tuesday 9th May 1876 by W Bro Wood, passed on the 11th July and raised on the 12th September 1876. He was installed as Master on the 10th October 1882. W Bro Wood as his proposer was invited to conduct the installation. After a few years on the back benches he was elected as Treasurer of the Lodge an office he held for 27 years until 1916. In 1908 while still Treasurer, he was one of the first to receive the new London Rank now known as LGR. Bro Smith was also a member of the Stanhope Chapter being exalted in 1879 and he became MEZ in 1885. He is the first of our Members to achieve 50 years in the Craft which he did so in 1926. A presentation to him in the form of an Illuminated Address was made by the Lodge at the September meeting in 1926. It may have been a Certificate such as that presented to Bro Ring but no record of its content is known. Bro Smith Died in 1930