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Anthony Sayer Freemasons' Hall, London 1672 - January, 1742 At the Revival in 1717 "Mr. Antony Sayer, gentleman" was elected the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England. "We also find the name among the worthies of the Old King’s Arms Lodge, No. 28, London, England, the name of that somewhat elusive character, Anthony Sayer, the first Grand Master of England, about whom less definite information is known than any of his successors in that high office." Nothing is known of his life other than he was often in straightened circumstances, petitioning Grand Lodge for charity on 21 November, 1724, 21 April, 1730 and 17 April, 1741 and receiving support from the Old King’s Arms Lodge on 2 February, 1736 and 3 March, 1740. His death is recorded in the minutes of the Old King’s Arms Lodge as occurring in the month prior to January 6, 1742 Grand Master : 1717 Senior Grand Warden : 1719 Grand Lodge of England Member Lodge of Fortitude and Old Cumberland No. 12 Tyler Old King’s Arms Lodge No. 28 Member Lodge at the Apple Tree Tavern, Charles Street Source: Constitutions, 1738, p. 110; Denslow; The Freemason, June 6, 1925. Mezzotint by John Faber the younger, c. 1749/50, after a lost portrait by Joseph Highmore.

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