Famous Freemasons

Throughout history there have been many notable Freemasons involved in a broad variety of activities. Here are just some of those '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 (1851 - 1925)

Sir William “Billy” Butlin (1899 - 1980)

ARMY

General Sir John Moore (1761 - 1809)

Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington KG (1769 - 1852)

Field Marshal The Earl Roberts of Kandahar VC, KG, KP (1832 - 1914)

Field Marshal The Earl Kitchener of Khartoum KG, KP (1850 - 1916)

Field Marshal Sir John French, 1st Earl of Ypres KP (1852 - 1925)

Field Marshal The Earl Haig KT (1861 - 1928)

General Sir Reginald Wingate Bt, GCB (1861 - 1953)

Field Marshal The Viscount Wolseley KP (1883 - 1913)

Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck GCB (1884 - 1981)

Field Marshal The Earl Alexander of Tunis KG (1891 - 1969)

Lieutenant-Colonel ‘Paddy’ Maine DSO*** (1915 - 1955)

NAVY

Admiral Sir Sidney Smith KCB(1764 - 1840)

Admiral Lord Charles Beresford GCB, GCVO (1841 - 1919)

Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Jellicoe GCB, OM, GCVO (1859 - 1935)

ROYAL AIR FORCE

Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Newall GCB, OM, GCMG, CBE AM (1886 - 1963)

Squadron Leader Henry Melvin “Dinghy” Young DFC & Bar (1915 - 1943)

ARTISTS

Sir James Thornhill (1676 - 1734)

William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)

John Zoffany (1733 - 1810)

Sir John Soane (1753 - 1837)

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

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

“Smokin’ Joe” Frazier

ACTORS

David Garrick (1717 - 1779)

Edmund Kean (1787 - 1833)

Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905 )

Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902 - 1968)

Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)

Ernest Borgnine (1917 - 2012)

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)

MUSIC

Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778) Rule Britannia

Samuel Wesley (1766 - 1837)

Sir Henry Bishop (1786 - 1855) Home Sweet Home

Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)