• “J.J.” Miller
  
  Grand Lodge Archives Photo November 9, 1860 - December 24, 1950 John James Miller was a Vancouver pioneer, active in his community and in Freemasonry. Born in New South Wales where he was mayor of Cootamundra in 1892, he moved to Vancouver in 190 ...
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• Albert Gallatin Mackey
  
  Mackey, Encyclopedia 1966. frontispiece March 12, 1807 - June 20, 1881 Dr. Mackey practiced medicine until 1854, after which literary and masonic pursuits fully occupied his time. In July, 1865, President Johnson appointed him Collector of the Port ...
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• Albert Pike
  
  Oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott, 1843 December 29, 1809 - April 2, 1891 Well-known masonic author and composer of the ritual for the concordant body, the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, he was elected Sovereign Grand Commander of tha ...
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• Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov
  
  November 24, 1729 - May 18, 1800 Russian military commander Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, Graf (Count) Rimniksky, Knyaz (Prince) Italiysky wrote Science of Victory, notable for its realistic emphasis on battle training rather than parade ground man ...
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• Alessandro Cagliostro
  
  Detail of an engraving by R.S. Marcuard after a design by Francesco Bartollozi, 1786 June 8 (2?), 1743 - August 26,1795 Founder of Egyptian Freemasonry in 1777, the self-styled Alessandro, Comte de Cagliostro had a considerably larger impact on th ...
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• Alexander Pope
  
  May 21,1688 - May 30, 1744 Son of a Roman Catholic draper, Pope was educated at various Catholic schools until the age of twelve, when severe illness left him crippled; he resorted henceforth to self-education. Introduced to London life by William ...
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• Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
  
  May 26, 1799 - January 27, 1837 Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin was first published in the journal The Messenger of Europe in 1814. Born into a carefree nobility, he was warmly received in literary and liberal circle. In April 1820, his political po ...
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• Alfred von Tirpitz
  
  March 19, 1849 - March 6, 1930 German Grand Admiral, Minister of State and Commander of the Kaiserliche Marine in World War I from 1914 until 1916. An energetic promoter for a greatly enlarged fleet, he championed the 'Fleet Acts' of 1898, 1900, 1908 ...
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• Alphonse Maria Mucha
  
  July 24, 1860 - July 14, 1932 Alphonse Mucha was born in Bohemia (Moravia, in what is now the Czech Republic) in 1860 and moved to Paris in 1890 where he became the star of the poster-art movement under the patronage of Sarah Bernhardt. After World ...
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• Amor de Cosmos
  
  BC Archives Photo August 20, 1825 - July 4, 1897 Born William Alexander Smith In Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1825, de Cosmos arrived in Victoria from California in June of 1858. De Cosmos founded the Daily British Colonist only to sell it in ...
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• Andrew Bell
  
  1726 - May 10, 1809 Founder of the Encyclopaedia Britannica with Mr. Colin McFarquhar in 1768-1771, Bro. Bell began his professional career as an engraver. Admitted: February 12, 1755 Lodge St. David, Edinburgh, No. 36 Source: "Andrew Bell, of ...
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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, L ...
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• Anthony Trollope
  
  Photograph from Cooper, Thompson: Men of Mark... London, 1876-1878. P.P.1931.pch. 1815- December 6, 1882 Once termed "as the delineator of clerical life in cathedral towns", British novelist Anthony Trollope wrote : The Macdermots of Ballycloran ...
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• Antonio Meucci
  
  1885 April 13, 1808 - October 18, 1889 Inventor of the telephone, Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was born in Florence, Italy, moving to Havana, Cuba in 1835 and relocating to New York in 1850. Employed as a customs officer, his revolutionary activi ...
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• Arthur Morton Godfrey
  
  August 31, 1903 - March 16, 1983 American variety show host, Arthur Godfrey, ranks as one of the important stars of the early years of American television. A radio announcer and entertainer for WFBR in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1930, he became an ann ...
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• Arthur Roy Brown
  
  December 23, 1893 - March 9, 1944 Captain in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, Brown holds the distinction of being the man who shot down the famous German pilot Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, on April 21, 1918, while he was pur ...
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• Arthur Seymour Sullivan
  
  Walery of London Photo. May 13, 1842 - November 22, 1900 Noted operatic and choral composer, First Principal of the National Training School of Music (1876-81) and composer of St. Gertrude, to which Sabine Baring-Gould added the words "Onward Ch ...
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• Arthur W. Delamont
  
  January 23, 1892 -September 11, 1982 Arthur W. Delamont, the only organizer, instructor and conductor of the Vancouver Kitsilano Boys Band, was born in Hereford, England, in 1892. Mr. D. was named Vancouver's Good Citizen of the Year for 1946 and in ...
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• Audie Leon Murphy
  
  June 20, 1924 - May 28, 1971 Audie Murphy was the most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II. After the war he moved to Hollywood; his first starring role came in a 1949 released film called Bad Boy. He went on to star in 44 feature films ov ...
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• Augustus Le Plongeon
  
  May 4, 1825 - 1908 Surveyor, doctor of medicine and photographer, Augustus Le Plongeon spent twelve years in Yucatan, as the first to excavate the ruins of Chichen Itza "Wearing full Masonic regalia, French archeologist Augustus le Plongeon strikes ...
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• Avery Brundage
  
  September 28, 1887 - May 8, 1975 Founder and president of the Avery Brundage Company, Avery Brundage was an active businessman in real estate, manufacturing and the hotel industry. Representing the United States at the Games of the Olympiad at Stoc ...
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