Masonry in Madras: We learn from the Madras Mail of January 12 that at a meeting of Lodge Perfect Unanimity. No. 150, held at the Masonic Hall, Mount Road, Madras, on Monday, the 10th ult. Brother Charles Pinsent was installed Worshipful Master for the year 1887. The following officers were also appointed and invested: Brothers W. G. Pavey, Senior Warden; F. H. D. Pinsent, Junior Warden; E. S. Traill Straith, Treasurer; D. Ross-Johnson; Secretary; J. S. Biscoe, Senior Deacon; Herbert Bradley, Junior Deacon; E. Wallis; D.C., H. M. Prior, Inner Guard; A. Cooper, Tyler. This lodge is the oldest in the Presidency and has recently received a warrant from the Prince of Wales. Most Worshipful Grand Master of English Freemasonry, authorising the members to wear a centenary jewel, the lodge having been worked for an unbroken period of one hundred years. Two other lodges in Bengal were also allowed this privilege, namely, “Star in the East” No.67 and ”Industry and Perseverance”‘ No. 109, the former in the year 1848, and the latter in 1872: but, according to many books of Masonic History. Lodge Perfect Unanimity was the first established in British India. One of the first brethren initiated in this lodge was H.H. Omdit-ul-Omra Bahadur, eldest son of the Nabob of the Carnatic, in the year 1779. The first Worshipful Master installed, when the lodge was finally established at Madras, was Wor. Brother Colly Lyons Lucas, Rt. Wor. Bro. Brigadier-General Horne being at the time Provincial Grand Master. The lodge has also numbered amongst its members many men well known in Madras history.
[The Messrs. Pinsent above-mentioned are sons of Mr. H. J. Pinsent. of Bassett, late of the Peninsular and Oriental Company.]
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GRO0133 India: Charles Powell Tronson Pinsent: 1849 – 1904
GRO0331 India: Frederick Henry Davison Pinsent: 1852 – 1902
GRO0420 India: Henry John Pinsent: 1812 – 1894