Metropolitan Sovereign Chapter no.1 Principal Officers
The following brethren have served this Chapter through the years
Sovereigns
1858 Joseph John Moody
1861 Edward Thomas Bradshaw
1863 Alexander James Gibb
1864 Henry Wallace Lowry
1865 Henry Wallace Lowry
1866 George Lewis
1867 Robert Levick
1868 Maj. Alexander Kennedy Smith, MLA
1869 John James
1870 John James
1871 William Braithwaite
1872 Maj. Alfred Blannin
1873 Capt. Robert Patterson Negus
1874 Maj. Charles Roper Martin
1875 Joseph Cahill
1876 John Robertson
1877 John James
1878 Maj. Charles Roper Martin
1879 John James
1880 Henry Wallace Lowry
1881 George Frederick Martin
1882 George Gordon Ross
1883 Elisha Howard Mack
1884 Maj. Charles Roper Martin
1885 Lieut-Col. Henry Studholme Brownrigg
1886 William James Runting
1887 Lieut-Col. Henry Studholme Brownrigg
1888 James Vaughan Morgan
1889 Maj. Charles Roper Martin
1890 Capt. John Bannerman
1891 Thomas Walker Fowler
1892 George Sutherland Smith
1893 Henry Keate Hall
1894 Clarence Spencer Cope Hicks
1895 Thomas Lambert
1896 Rev. Dean Charles John Godby
1897 Henry Thomas Tompsitt
1898 Andrew Thomson
1899 George Hall
1900 Robert Oliver Thompson
1901 James Campbell Rennie
1902 Dr Edward William Linnell French
1903 Henry Arthur Harrison
1904 Dr Frederic Sidney Jermaine-Lulham
1905 Dr Walter Balls-Headley
1906 Col. George William Watson, VD
1907 George Fethers
1908 Alexander Kemp
1909 Sir Henry Weedon, Bart
1910 George Edwin Emery, CMG
1911 Thomas Mackenzie Kirkwood
1912 William Ernest Bagnall
1913 Llewellyn Rhun Davies-Griffith
1914 Edwin Rupert Hammett
1915 Colin Robertson Tulloh
1916 Arthur Thewlis
1917 Frederick Charles Martin
1918 Col. The Rev. Dr Albert Thomas Holden, CBE DD
1919 Adam George Dunlop
1920 George Lyell Marquand
1921 George Lyell Marquand
1922 John William Robertson
1923 George Herbert Broome
1924 Frederick Langley Dexter-Homan
1925 Robert Peter Dick
1926 Herbert Victor Mitchell
1927 Herbert Victor Mitchell
1928 Lieut.Col. Richard Ernest Trebilcock, MC
1929 William Callaghan
1930 Norman Colliver
1931 Harry Edward Sheppard Bird
1932 Rev. Joseph William Briggs
1933 Rev. William Clarke-Hudson
1935 Dr William George Herbert Tregear
1936 Victor Sydney Hollow
1937 Francis Edward Bellmaine
1938 James Banning Wardley
1939 William Shakespeare John Boyd Flaxman
1940 Alban Cyril Morley
1941 Sir William George Dismore Upjohn, OBE
1942 Joseph James Clarke
1943 Andrew Henry Jacob Edwin Heins
1944 Walter Kemp
1945 Reginald Herbert Wilkinson
1946 William Robinson Heley
1947 Samuel Joseph Wilson
1948 Dr Shirley Elliston Francis
1949 John Charles Farrin-Webb
1950 Frank Carl Urban
1951 Rev. Canon Walter George Thomas
1952 Herbert William Stewart
1953 Vernon Wilkinson
1954 Walter Edward Brockenshire
1955 Walter Joseph Haynes
1956 Mervyn Fairfield Fasham
1957 William Aspinall Houghton
1958 Arthur Edward Dowling
1959 Robert Coldstream
1960 William Cecil Sangster
1961 Dr Arthur Joseph Day
1962 Robert Mitchell Orr
1963 Leslie Wilfred Fletcher
1964 Raymond Henry Beers
1965 Herbert Robert Erl Grey
1966 Eric Vincent
1967 Christian Jacobsen
1968 James George Stevenson
1969 John Harris
1970 John Rawady
1971 John William Arthur Beardshall
1972 William Charles Picot
1973 Dr Lyall Longhurst Lovett
1974 Trevor Edward Leslie Minster
1975 Edward William Henry Mawby
1976 Johann Collin Hoffmann
1977 Alan Henri Nottle
1978 John Matthewson Mitchell
1979 Stanley Ronald Bouchier
1980 Lieut.-Col. Allan Edmund Bamford, ED
1981 William Robert Scott
1982 Cmdr Willem Jacob Hootsen, RNN (Retd)
1983 Dr Hubert Frederick Pascal-Murray
1984 Lloyd Wilkinson Chanter
1985 Samuel Larkin McGarrigle
1986 Geoffrey Anthony Bowers
1987 William Keith Nevin
1988 John Brodie Richardson
1989 Justus Hugh Eberhard
1990 Keith Frederick Best
1991 Keith Frederick Best
1992 Russell-Graeme Gilbert
1993 Owen Dudley Hamilton Burton
1994 Robert Thomas Floyd
1995 Murray Gavin Cook Birch
1996 Clarke George Baini
1997 Norman Alexander Pritchard, RFD
1998 Robert Colquhoun
1999 Robert Colquhoun
2000 Robert Thomas Floyd
2001 Robert Thomas Floyd
2002 Robert Thomas Floyd
2003 John Anthony Baragwanath
2004 John Anthony Baragwanath
2005 Ibrahim Farfoud
2006 Ibrahim Farfoud
2007 John Anthony Baragwanath
2008 John Anthony Baragwanath
2009 Andrew Peter Charles La Terra
2010 Pasquale Siciliano
2011 Pasquale Siciliano
2012 Robert Paul Brennand
2013 Theofanes Tzafas
2014 Matteo Donato
2015 Domenic Alexander Donato
2016 Filippo Culcasi
2017 Duncan Stuart Russell McArthur
2018 Dr Christopher Scott Wallace
2019 Dr Christopher Scott Wallace
2020 Dr Christopher Scott Wallace (COVID hiatus)
2021 Richard Robertson Shelly (COVID hiatus)
2022 Richard Robertson Shelly
2023 Jeffrey Walter Casbourn Cripps
Recorders
1860 Charles Ernest Clarke
1865 William Henry Taaffe
1867 Henry Wallace Lowry
1880 Joseph Cahill
1892 Thomas Walker Fowler
1913 William Ernest Bagnall
1919 Arthur Thewlis
1932 William Stapley Harmer
1934 William Callaghan
1952 William Shakespeare John Boyd Flaxman
1958 Ian Robert Anderson
1961 William Shakespeare John Boyd Flaxman
1962 Victor Charles Stone
1967 Eric Vincent
1972 Robert Mitchell Orr
1973 Lieut.-Col. Allan Edmund Bamford, ED
1978 Hubert Tivnann Hall
1980 Eric Vincent
1987 Alan Henri Nottle
1997 Clarke George Baini
2008 Jeffrey Walter Casbourn Cripps
2012 Dr Christopher Scott Wallace
2023 Richard Robertson Shelly
Treasurers
1860 Laurence Cockburn
1861 Charles White
1865 William James Vance
1867 Henry Wallace Lowry
1891 John Robertson
1914 George Fethers
1921 Frederick Charles Martin
1942 Hugh Edward Kennedy
1952 John Charles Farrin-Webb
1956 Ian Robert Anderson
1958 Edward William Henry Mawby
1967 Ernest James Charlton
1970 James George Stevenson
1972 Edward William Henry Mawby
1974 Samuel Larkin McGarrigle
1974 William Charles Picot
1980 John Matthewson Mitchell
1984 James George Stevenson
1991 Geoffrey Maclean Waters
1997 Eric Vincent
1999 Camille Nahas
2007 Norman Alexander Pritchard, RFD
2011 John Anthony Baragwanath
2014 Robert Paul Brennand
Directors of Ceremonies
details of previous officers unknown to-date
1882 Richard Lawrence Malcolm
1883 William James Runting
1890 Thomas Livingston
1891 Edward Jervis
1893 Henry Thomas Tompsitt
1894 George Hall
1895 Robert Oliver Thompson
1897 Dr Edward William Linnell French
1899 Edward Nicholls
1900 Thomas Harris
1901 Alfred Webster
1904 Henry Arthur Harrison
1917 Arthur Thewlis
1919 William Ernest Bagnall
1927 George Lyell Marquand
1932 Robert Peter Dick
1938 Victor Sydney Hollow
1946 Andrew Henry Jacob Edwin Heins
1949 William Robinson Heley
1956 Alan Rowland Simpson
1957 Herbert William Stewart
1960 Vernon Wilkinson
1963 Arthur Edward Dowling
1967 Capt. Frederick Russell Williams
1971 William Cecil Sangster
1972 John Rawady
1974 Eric Vincent
1976 James George Stevenson
1978 Dr Lyall Longhurst Lovett
1979 Johann Collin Hoffmann
1984 Alan Henri Nottle
1987 Lieut.-Col. Allan Edmund Bamford, ED
1993 Justus Hugh Eberhard
1995 Geoffrey Anthony Bowers
2007 Tony Barkho
2008 Raymond Shearwood Phillips
2013 Pasquale Siciliano
2014 LTCOL Donald David Shearman (Ret'd), RFD
2021 Michael John Hyland