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Dr. Chetwode Crawley November 15, 1843 - March 13, 1916 William John Chetwode Crawley, for many years Head Master of the Queen’s Service Acadamy, Dublin, was, after a lengthy university career, elected a life member of the senate of Trinity College, Dublin in 1881. Author of various textbooks and manuals, he sat on the Council of Dublin University, was Chairman of the Dublin Council of Teachers' Guilds and was a member of several Royal Societies. Compiler of three volumes of Caementaria Hibernica (1895, 1896, 1900) and author of twenty-one papers published in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, his studies into the early history of English speaking Freemasonry have provided masonic students with a wealth of valuable research and established his reputation as a leading proponent of what has been termed the Authentic School of masonic writers. Initiated : 1873 Scientific Lodge No. 250, Dublin Worshipful Master : 1876 Trinity College Lodge No. 357 Grand Secretary : 1880-1893 Grand Lodge of Instruction Grand Inner Guard : 1881 Grand Sword Bearer : 1884 Grand Steward : 1887 Grand Treasurer : 1904 - 1915 Grand Lodge of Ireland Past Senior Grand Warden Grand Lodge of British Columbia Source: Ars Quatuor Coronatorum vol xxix, pp. 239-41. Also see: St.Thomas’s Parish, Dublin, Rough Baptismal Register 1843-1852, Representative Church Body Library Ref. P.80/2/2A: baptised, William John, 10 December 1843, born November, 1843. Cf, "Scholars of the Craft", The Aldershot Army and Navy Lodge Journal January, 1913, which notes his birthdate as 1844; AQC vol. i, p. 36, which notes his birth year as 1844 and his initiation in 1872. Portrait : frontispiece, AQC 1907.

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