Some Famous English Freemasons

English Freemasonry has drawn its membership from every branch of Society. Among the more famous members are:

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)
 King George VI
King George VI

Artists

  • Sir James Thornhill
    (1676-1734)
  • William Hogarth
    (1697-1764)
  • John Zoffany
    (1733-1810)
  • Sir John Sloane
    (1753-1837)
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William Hogarth

Scientists

  • Sir Joseph Banks
    (1744-1820)
  • Edward Jenner
    (1749-1823)
  • Sir Alexander Fleming
    (1881-1955)
  • Sir Bernard Spilsbury
    (1877-1947)
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Sir Alexander Fleming

Explorers

  • Sir Richard Burton
    (1821-1890)
  • Capt. Robert Falcon Scott
    (1868-1912)
  • Sir Ernest Shackleton
    (1874-1922)
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Capt. Robert Falcon Scott

Actors

  • Edmund Kean
    (1787-1833)
  • Sir Henry Irving
    (1838-1905)
  • Sir Donald Wolfitt
    (1902-1968)
  • Peter Sellers
    (1925-1980)
 Sellers
Peter Sellers

Musicians

  • Johann Christian Bach
    (1735-1782)
  • Samuel Wesley
    (1766-1837)
  • Sir Henry Bishop
    (1786-1855)
  • Sir Arthur Sullivan
    (1842-1900)
  • Lionel Monckton
    (1862-1925)
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Johann Christian Bach

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)
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Sir Winston Churchill

Army

  • FM Earl Kitchener
    (1850-1916)
  • FM Sir John French, Earl of Ypres
    (1852-1925)
  • FM Earl Haig
    (1861-1928)
  • Gen. Sir Francis Reginald Wingate
    (1861-1953)
  • FM Sir Claude Auchinleck
    (1884-1981)
  • FM Earl Alexander of Tunis
    (1891-1969)
 Kitchener
FM Earl Kitchener

Royal Navy

  • Admiral Sir Sidney Smith
    (1764-1840)
  • Rear-admiral Lord Charles Beresford
    (1841-1919)
  • Admiral Earl Jellicoe
    (1859-1935)
 Jellicoe
Earl Jellicoe

Royal Air Force

  • Marshal of the RAF Lord Newall
    (1886-1963)
  

Religion

  • Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
    (1887-1972)
  • Bishop Percy Herbert of Norwich
    (1885-1968)
  • Sir Israel Brodie
    (1895-1979)
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Geoffrey Fisher

Philanthropists

  • Dr. T. J. Barnardo
    (1845-1905)
  • 1st Viscount Leverhulme
    (1851-1925)
  • Sir William Butlin
    (1899-1980)
 Leverhulme
1st Viscount Leverhulme

Writers

  • Alexander Pope
    (1688-1744)
  • Edward Gibbon
    (1734-1794)
  • Sir William S. Gilbert
    (1836-1911)
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    (1859-1930)
  • Rudyard Kipling
    (1865-1936)
 Conan Doyle
Rudyard Kipling