Author: WHITE, WILLIAM HENRY (SIGNED COPY) .
Title: Constitutions Of The Antient Fraternity Of Free And Accepted Masons : Containing The Charges, Regulations, &c. &c. Published, By The Authority Of The United Grand Lodge, By William Henry White, as Grand Secretary .
Description: London: Printed By Norris And Son, Bloomfield Street, Finsbury Circus. ( Sold By Brother R. Spencer, Masonic Bookseller, Publisher, Stationer. &c. 314, High Holborn, London ), MDCCCXLVII. [ 1847 ] . 0. Signed copy. 8vo. 8.50" x 5.50" x 0.50". pp.8 /pp.147/[22pp.]. Original grey-green cloth binding with rubbed gilt titles to the front board: "Constitutions of Free and Accepted Masons - 1847." Boards faded, edges rubbed and bumped. Original endpapers, lightly soiled. Printed bookplate to verso of the front board: "A. M. Broadley. Ex Libris The Knapp 1902 Bradpole." Inner hinges carefully stregthened. Pencil notes (regarding this special edition) to front free-endpaper. Engraved frontis (lightly foxed): Pl. 1 Collar and jewel of the Grand Master. Printed title page, and clean English text throughout. Dedication on [p. v.] signed in brown ink by "William H. White G.S." Clean pages throughout, just some light foxing to the the plates at the rear. A good copy of this scarce book. N.B. The 1847 edition (technically the tenth edition of Constitutions) , was the last to see the Grand Secretary personally sign the dedication. Thereafter it was printed in facsimile. The illustration of "Collar of a Grand Officer of the Grand Lodge of England" is normally ommitted from this edition but two new illustrations are added: Provincial Grand Master's Jewel; and Deputy Provincial Grand Master's Jewel. *** William Henry White (born about 1777, died 5 Apr 1866 ): "..Little is on record of his early days but we do know that he was initiated in the Lodge of Emulation No.21 on 15 April 1799, and in 1801 became its Worshipful Master. Having been honoured with the rank of Grand Steward in 1805, he joined Grand Stewards Lodge in 1805. In 1810 he became Joint Secretary (Premier Grand Lodge) with his father William White, and was very active in the Lodge of Reconciliation. Before 1813 he was appointed Private Secretary to HRH the Duke of Sussex, an office held until the Duke's death. He was also Secretary of the Hon. Artillery Company. At the Quarterly Communication of March 1856 (when both Zetland and White were absent because of ill health) there was open opposition to the re-election of the Grand Master (though he was elected and proclaimed), and the motion was duly carried. The Masonic Mirror in March 1856 reported that Bro White was quite ill. White sent his resignation to the Grand Master. Zetland refused to accept it, and White continued until April 1857 when William Gray Clarke was appointed Grand Secretary. William Henry White became Joint Grand Secretary from 27th December 1813 and retired 29th April 1857. Bro White was to live a further nine years on the pension voted for him by Grand Lodge. He had served the premier Grand Lodge and the United Grand Lodge of England all his adult life. As Joint Grand Secretary of the Moderns with his father from 1810, and Joint Grand Secretary of the UGLE with Edwards Harper from 1813 to 1838 and finally as Grand Secretary of UGLE from 1839 to 1857. A total of forty-seven years, serving two Grand Masters, the Duke of Sussex and the Earl of Zetland, both of whom totally relied on him. He had withstood the onslaught of Drs. Crecefix and Oliver and outlasted them and their magazines. William H. White lived in retirement for another few years and passed away in 1866." - see The Union of the "Moderns" and the "Antients" Grand lodges to create The United Grand Lodge of England in 1813. Bi-Centenary Anniversary 2013 by Allan de Luca, The Chingford Masonic Association, Newsletter No.41 - Spring 2013 Editor - W Bro Allan de Luca . **** "Alexander Meyrick Broadley (19 July 1847 – 16 April 1916) was a British historian, author, and barrister. He is best known for being the defense lawyer for Ahmed Orabi after the failure of the Urabi Revolt. His father, also named Alexander, was vicar of Bradpole, in Dorset, England. He entered Lincoln's Inn as a law student in 1866 and was called to the bar in 1869. He lived in Tunis for a number of years and worked as a lawyer there within the French legal system. He later lived in Belgium for a time. In later life he returned to Bradpole and built a large house called "The Knapp" (as of 1998, it still existed and had been converted into a nursing home). He collected a large number of books, some of which he "grangerized" by adding additional illustrations, and also became a prolific author of books on historical topics." - See Wikipedia.

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