Kensington Lodge of Installed Masters - Centenary

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http://www.wwmason.com/west-wales-members/useful-downloads/
The cover of the Centenary Booklet. If you click on the picture, the link takes you to the useful downloads section of the website, where you can download the full brochure.
Kensington Lodge of Installed Masters celebrated their Centenary in 2013. RW Bro Eric Mock was the 100th Master of the Lodge and yours truly was the Junior Deacon. In fact there are a few very familiar names amongst the list of Officers:

 
Why remember the centenary now? The Installation meeting of Kensington Lodge of IM was the very last meeting to take place in West Wales before the country went on lockdown. W Bro Jeff Lewis PSGD was Installed by VW Bro Lionel Hughes PGSwdB and a good time was had by all.

Past Masters of Kensington Lodge in 2013
I don't know why this caught my eye from the book!


10th. September, 1993 - Murder of Provincial Grand Master
The Junior Warden, Wor. Bro. R. C. Warburton then presented an address to the Lodge, the subject being murder in 1876 of the then Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons, Rt. Wor. Bro. John Johnnes.

Wor. Bro. Warburton described the background of the Prov. Grand Master, born at Dolaucothi – son of another John Johnnes and who went to school in Lampeter, graduated Bachelor of Arts at Brasenose College, Oxford, later to become a Master of Arts and a Lawyer, being admitted to the Inner Temple at the age of 31.

Further description of his attainments, becoming a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of the County, he retired to Dolaucothi to live with his two daughters and his son in law.

In this house also lived an Irish Butler named Henry Temple with whom John Johnnes did not get on at all well, so much so that on a Saturday morning in August, Henry Temple mortally wounded John Johnnes with a shotgun, apparently for the persecution of Henry Temple by John Johnnes.

Temple then went back to the house and committed suicide. John Johnnes had been Prov. Grand Master for eleven years and his Memorial is in the Church in Caio where he caused to be built a School, laying the Foundation Stone himself with a wooden gavel.

A vote of thanks to Wor. Bro. Warburton was proposed by the Prov. Grand Master, V.Rev Dr. A.G.Macwilliam.

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