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George Howard Earle III (1890–1974), 38th governor of Pennsylvania and diplomat (digital document by phoenixmasonry: vol. 1, 2, 3, 4) Hubert L. Eaton, American chemist, originator of "Memorial park" cemeteries in the US. Euclid Lodge, No. 58, Great Falls, Montana.John Hamill and Robert Gilert (Eds.), Freemasonry, a Celebration of the Craft, p. 231 (J.G. Press, 1998) John David Eaton, president of the Canadian-based T. Eaton Company. Assiniboine No. 114, G.R.M., Winnipeg. Darío Echandía, Colombian politician and Ambassador to the Holy See Duke of Edinburgh, see Prince Philip (below) Merritt A. Edson Sr. (1897–1955), Medal of Honor recipient and MajGen, U.S. Marine Corps. Arthur Edwards (1863–1927), architect. Worshipful Master of the Holte Lodge of Freemasons in 1907. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick), member of the British Royal Family, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, member of various lodges including Royal Alpha Lodge No. 16 (UGLE).See his biographical entry at the UGLE website for details. Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany (1739–1767), younger brother of George III of the United Kingdom. Initiated in the Lodge of Friendship (later known as Royal York Lodge of Friendship), Berlin, Germany, on 27 July 1765. Edward VII, King of Great Britain Edward VIII, King of Great Britain. Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton (1832–1909), British politician Gustave Eiffel, designer and architect of the Eiffel Tower Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987), American astronaut Philip Eliot (1862–1946), English Anglican clergyman and Bishop of Buckingham. Provincial Grand Master of Buckinghamshire (UGLE). Duke Ellington, musician. Social Lodge No. 1, Washington, D.C., Prince Hall Affiliation. William Ellison-Macartney, British politician, Member of Parliament (1885–1903), and Australian state governor. Apollo University Lodge No. 357, Oxford; Grand Master of Western Australia. Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1796–1800) John Elway, Hall of Fame quarterback for the Denver Broncos (1983–1998). South Denver Lodge No. 93, Denver, Colorado.Bio of John Elway, hosted on Knightstemplar.org , the website of the Grand Encampment of the Knights Templar, York Rite (Jerry) Benét Embry, Director, Actor, Screenwriter and Published Author, A.F.& A.M. - Master Mason and member of Lebanon Lodge #837 in Frisco, Tx, 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Valley of Dallas Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Sir Knight and member of Alexander C. Garrett Commandery #103 James Emmert, Indiana Attorney General (1943–1947) and Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1947–1959), member of the Greensburg Lodge. John Entwistle, bassist, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member of The Who Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818–1893), German Duke Ernest Augustus (1771– 1851), King of Hanover from 1837 to 1851 David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan (1742–1829), Scottish peer and 34th Grand Master Mason of Scotland, 1782–1783 Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan (1710–1767), Scottish peer and 10th Grand Master Mason of Scotland, 1745–1746 Henry Erskine, 12th Earl of Buchan (1783–1857), Scottish peer and 59th Grand Master Mason of Scotland, 1832–1833 Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, Scottish musician, Grand Master of Scotland (1763–1765) Sam Ervin, U.S. senator from North Carolina Ben Espy, American politician, served in the Ohio Senate Bob Etheridge, congressman (D – NC), Bakersville Lodge No. 357, North Carolina Richard Eve, Grand Treasurer of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1889Article on Richard Eve in Masonic Quarterly Issue 9, April 2004 Colonel George Everest, English surveyor, Surveyor General of India, after whom Mount Everest is named. Member of Prince of Wales's Lodge No. 493 (later became No. 259), London.

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Eberhard Faber, founder of the Faber Pencil Company. Chancellor Walworth No. 271, New York. Seymour Clarence Fabrick (1915–2005), American businessman. Sir Arthur Fadden, 13th prime minister of Australia, initiated into Caledonia Lodge No. 737, Queensland Dez Fafara, singer of DevilDriver (formerly of Coal Chamber), North Hollywood Lodge No. 542, Los Angeles, California Douglas Fairbanks (1883–1939), American movie star and film director. Initiated: 1925, Beverly Hills Lodge No. 528, California. Raised: 11 August 1925, Beverly Hills Lodge No. 528. Philip Michael Faraday (1875–1944), architect and composer. Initiated into the Holloway Lodge No. 2601 in 1898 and Grand Organist of the UGLE from 1914.England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751–1921 for Philip Michael Faraday: United Grand Lodge of England, 1887–1909 – Membership Registers: London J 2545-2738 to London K 2739-2946 – Ancestry.com Brian Faulkner (1947– ), British Army soldierBrian Faulkner DCM, Pegasus Forces Lodge No 9393 website Bob Feller (1918–2010), American athlete. Grove Lodge #824, Downers Grove, Illinois. Rigas Feraios, national hero of Greece Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand, Grand Master Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize-winning physicist. FRS. Adriano Lemmi Lodge, Rome, 1923. Ettore Ferrari, Italian sculptor. Grand Master of the Grande Oriente d'Italia. Jules Ferry, French politician. Member of the Alsace-Lorraine Lodge of Paris. Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, Hungarian ecclesiastic and writer. Member of Lodge Pythagoras of the Blazing Star in Berlin. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher. Member of Lodge Pythagoras of the Blazing Star in Berlin. Stephen Johnson Field, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice (1863–1897) W. C. Fields, American comedian. E. Coppée Mitchell Lodge No. 605, Philadelphia. Charles Grandison Finney, American preacher, evangelist and author (1792–1875). Meridian Sun Lodge No. 32 in Warren, New York. Finney asked for dismissal and was discharged.The Memoirs of Charles G. Finney, The Complete Restored Text, Garth Rosell and Richard Dupuis, eds, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1989). p. 629. Hamilton Fish IV, Congressman from New York Geoffrey Fisher, 99th Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the worldwide Anglican Communion Abram Fitkin, American businessman and philanthropist (1878–1933). Altair Lodge No. 601, Brooklyn.Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction, "Gives $1,000,000 to Crippled Children", The New Age Magazine 36 (Supreme Council, 33, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A., 1928):56. Lord Frederick FitzClarence, illegitimate son of King William IV. Grand Master of Scotland (1841–1843). Harris Flanagin (1817–1874), seventh governor of Arkansas. Hugh de Payens Commandery No. 1 of Knights Templar, Little Rock, Arkansas. Edwin Flavell, brigadier under Field Marshal Montgomery. DSO. MC. Provincial Grand Master of Berkshire 1967–85.Pegasus Archive. Retrieved 16 July 2013. Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. London Scottish Rifles Lodge No. 2310. Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor. St. Andrew's No. 16, Toronto, Ontario. Walter Fleming, co-founder of the Shriners Cyril Fletcher, English comedian Thomas Fletcher (1817–1880), acting governor of Arkansas. Magnolia No. 60, Little Rock, Arkansas. William J. Florence, co-founder of the Shriners Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor. Lodge Alto Adige, Rome. Nandor Fodor (1895–1964), British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin. Martin Folkes, president of the Royal Society (1741–1753). Deputy Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England (1724–1725).G. W. Speth (ed), Quatuor Coronatorum Antigrapha, Vol. 10, 1913, Minutes of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England, p. 58Pietre-Stones Alain Bernheim, My Approach to Masonic History (address, Manchester 2011). Retrieved 17 June 2013. Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet, Scottish banker. Grand Master of Scotland (1776–1778). Isaac de Forcade de Biaix, Royal Prussian colonel and Hofmarschall to the Prince of Prussia. Knight of the Order of Pour le Mérite, Prussia's highest order of merit for heroism. Gerald Ford, President of the United States Glenn Ford, American actor Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. Palestine Lodge No 357, Detroit. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate States Army general. Angerona Lodge No. 168, Memphis, Tennessee – received only the First Degree and never advanced further. Steven D. Foster, American politician Benjamin Franklin, American inventor and statesman. St. John's Lodge, Philadelphia, February 1731. Eric Fraser, British businessman and civil servant, Director-General of Aircraft Production during World War Two. Royal Somerset House & Inverness Lodge No 4 (UGLE).Thomas Everard Johnson DFC, The First 100 Years, 1892–1992, published 1992 in London by the Royal Somerset House & Inverness Chapter of Royal Arch Freemasons, pp. 4–5. Joe Frazier (1944–2011), boxer and undisputed heavyweight boxing champion. Member of MB Taylor Lodge No. 141. Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827), second eldest child and second son of King George III of the United Kingdom Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, German noble Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Dutch prince Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Member and founder of the lodge Zu den drei Weltkugeln (Of the Three Globes). Frederick I of Württemberg, Ruler of Württemberg Frederick III, German Emperor and King of Prussia Frederick VII of Denmark, King of Denmark Frederick VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark Frederick William II of Prussia, King of Prussia John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852–1925), English army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force during World War I Alfred Hermann Fried (1864–1921), Austrian Jewish pacifist and publicist. Winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. Bridge Frodsham (1733?–1768), English provincial actor. Master of Punch Bowl 259 at York 1761–62 (Premier Grand Lodge of England).Revd. Neville Barker Cryer, York Mysteries Revealed, Ian Allan, 2006, pp. 295–296 W. A. Fry (1872–1944), Canadian sports administrator and newspaper publisher, lodge member of Dunnville, Ontario Boyd C. Fugate (1884–1967), Tennessee state representative Tony Fulton (1951 – 2005), American politician and member of the Maryland House of Delegates between 1987 and 2005. Jonas Furrer (1805–1861), 1st president of the Swiss Confederation Will Fyffe, Scottish singer and actor. Lodge St John, Shotts No 471.

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Ibrahim Gaydarov, Lezgin Muslim travel engineer, noble, nationalist activist, Minister of Transport, Post and Telegraph of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus and one of the Northern Caucasus intellectuals Clark Gable, actor; Beverly Hills Lodge No. 528, CaliforniaRoyal Arch Mason Magazine, Spring, 1981, p. 271 Petar Gabrovski, Bulgarian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister during the Second World WarFrederick B. Chary, The History of Bulgaria, ABC-CLIO, 2011, p. 95 David Galliford, Bishop of Bolton in the Church of England. Exemplar Lodge No 5075, Manchester, and Marquess of Zetland Lodge No 9349, York; Grand Chaplain of UGLE.Masonic Year Book, published by United Grand Lodge of England (annually), see for example 2014–2015 ed., p. 162. Léon Gambetta, French politician Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spanish poet, playwright and theatre director. His membership of the Alhambra Lodge (as 'Homero') was one of the "crimes" that led to his assassination by Franco's forces.El Pais, "Lorca murdered after 'confessing,' says Franco-era police report" James A. Garfield, U.S. president. Magnolia Lodge No. 20, Columbus Lodge No. 30, and Garrettsville Lodge No. 246, Ohio. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general; fused the Rites of Memphis and Misraim in 1881