Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde finished his education at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he became an apostle of the doctrine ’’art for arts sake’. About 1884 he became involved in an unpleasant scandal, as a result of which he was sentenced to two year imprisonment. Undoubtedly a genius and his plays are as popular as ever. It was great tragedy that he deviated from the Masonic Line and Rule.
As a young undergraduate at Oxford he was initiated, passed and raised in Apollo Lodge No.357 EC
Anthony Trollope
Novelist born in London and grew up in an atmosphere of decayed gentility. He was educated at Winchester and Harrow (not that decayed!!) and at the age of 16 he obtained a clerical position in the Post Office, and spent 6 miserable months as a junior clerk In 1841 he was transferred as a postal surveyor in Ireland. By the mid-1860s, he had reached a fairly senior position within the Post Office hierarchy. Postal history credits him with introducing the pillar box (the ubiquitous bright red mail-box) in the United Kingdom.
He was initiated on 8th November, 1841, in Banagher Lodge No.306 I.C. And raised on 13 December 1841.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Physician, novelist and writer of the well know Sherlock Holmes stories. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh he practised medicine in Southsea until 1891 when he turned to full time writing of novels. He was knighted in 1902 in recognition of his work with a field hospital, and other activities during the Boer War.
He was initiated on 26th January, passed on 23rd February and raised on 23rd March 1887 in Phoenix Lodge No.247, Portsmouth
