• Simón Bolívar
  
  July 24, 1783 - December 17, 1830 President of Colombia (1821-30) and Peru (1823-29), Bolívar lead the revolutions against Spanish rule in New Grenada. Although called El Libertador, his authoritative political thinking provoked further civil w ...
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• Sir Alexander Fleming
  
  August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955 Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin in 1928, receiving the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1945. Initiated: 1909 Sancta Maria Lodge No. 2682, London Member: Misericordi ...
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• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  Detail of a portrait by H.L. Gates, 1927: National Portrait Gallery, London May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930 Arthur Charles Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh. Best known for his writing of fifty-six short stories and three no ...
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• Sir Arthur William Currie
  
  December 5, 1875 - November 30, 1933 General, Sir Arthur Wm. Currie, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., etc., commanded the First Canadian Corps in France in the War of 1914-18 from June 1917 to the signing of the Armistice. In August 1919 he was appointed Inspector- ...
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• Sir Charles Warren
  
  1840 - January 21, 1927 Soldier, explorer and archaeologist, Charles Warren was born in Bangor and educated at Sandhurst. As an agent of the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1867, he surveyed Herod's Temple and conducted excavations in Jerusalem, record ...
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• Sir Ernest Shackleton
  
  February 15, 1874 - January 5, 1922 Ernest Henry Shackleton was born in County Kildare, Ireland on 15 February 1874, his family originally coming from Yorkshire, England. Shackleton was initiated into Navy Lodge No. 2612 (United Grand Lodge of Engl ...
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• Sir Henry Irving
  
  February 6, 1838 - October 13, 1905 Christened with the name John Henry Brodribb, by 1856 he had moved to Sunderland, changed his name to Henry Irving, and began his professional career as a travelling actor across northern England and Scotland. He l ...
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• Sir Joseph Banks
  
  February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820 Botonist and President of the Royal Society from 1778 until his death, Joseph Banks sailed around the globe with Captain Cook on the Endeavor in 1768-1771 and turned the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew into a world f ...
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• Sir Richard Francis Burton
  
  March 19, 1821 - October 20, 1890 Burton was an English scholar-explorer and author of 43 volumes on his explorations and almost 30 volumes of translations, including an unexpurgated 16-volume translation of The Arabian Nights (1885-88). After expl ...
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• Sir Samuel Benfield Steele
  
  RCMP Regimental Archives photo January 5, 1849 - January 30, 1919 One of the first members of the North-West Mounted Police, Steele was responsible for defending the construction route of the Canadian railway. In 1898 he was sent to the Yukon to es ...
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• Sir Sandford Fleming
  
  July 7, 1827 - July 22, 1915 Surveyor, engineer, author and inventor of standard time zones, Fleming emigrated to Quebec from Scotland, on April 24, 1845. One of the foremost railway engineers of his time, he was in charge of the initial survey for ...
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• Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton
  
  May 10, 1850 - Oct. 2, 1931 "Work hard, deal honestly, be enterprising, exercise careful judgement, advertise freely but judiciously." Born of Irish parents in Glasgow, Sir Thomas Lipton, through a unique style of shopkeeping and imaginative adverti ...
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• Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
  
  APA Photo Agency, Singapore July 5, 1781 - April, 1826 Author of History of Java (1817) and founder of Singapore, Raffles also founded the London Zoological Society. Initiated: 1811, Java Passed: Raised: July 5, 1813 Lodge De Vriendschap, Sorabay ...
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• Sir Walter Scott
  
  Reproduced from the frontispiece to The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company, 1861. August 15, 1771 - September 21, 1832 Scottish novelist, Sir Walter Scott, was born in Edinburgh. Scott created and ...
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• Sir William S. Gilbert
  
  November 18, 1836 - May 29, 1911 William Schwenck Gilbert, militiaman, barrister, librettist and author of the Bab Ballads published in 1869, is best remembered for his twenty-five year partnership with Arthur Sullivan which produced a total of four ...
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• Swami Vivekananda
  
  Charles Neilson photo, 1900. 12 January 1863 - 4 July 1902 Born Narendranath Dutta, Swami Vivekananda is considered one of the most influential spiritual leaders of the Vedanta philosophy and a leading exponent of both Hinduism and Yoga in the we ...
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• The Boswell family
  
  James Boswell John Boswell circa 1600 Laird of Auchinleck His signature and mark on the records of a meeting of the Lodge of Edinburgh held at Holyrood on June 8th, 1600 constitute the earliest authentic record of a non-operative mason, although h ...
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• Thomas Dunckerley
  
  October 23, 1724 - November 19, 1795 An active promoter of Royal Arch Masonry, Thomas Dunckerley was the first Grand Master of the masonic order of Knight Templars, formed in London in 1791. His publication of various Charges and lectures has assured ...
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• Thomas Smith Webb
  
  October 13, 1771 - July 6, 1819 Born and educated in Massachusetts, Thomas Smith Webb was either a bookbinder or printer whose trade first took him to New Hampshire and then to Albany, New York. He later relocated to Providence, Rhode Island to engag ...
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• Tim Horton
  
  12 January 1930 - 21 February 1974 Miles Gilbert (Tim) Horton played twenty-four National Hockey League seasons, twenty of them playing defence and right wing for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He later played for the New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins ...
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• Tom Mix
  
  January 6, 1880 - October 12, 1940 One time bartender, cow hand and Texas Ranger, Thomas Edwin Mix was a superb marksman and rider who went on to become arguably the most important cowboy film star in Hollywood's history. Mix's career in movies famo ...
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