WELL KNOWN OR CELEBRITY FREEMASONS

Writers

Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) 

Edward Gibbon (1734 - 1794) 

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) 

Robbie Burns (1759 - 1796) 

Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) 

Sir William S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911) 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) 

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

Explorers

Capt. Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912)

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874- 1922)

Sir Richard Burton (1821 - 1890) 

Artists

Sir James Thornhill (1676 - 1734) William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) 

John Zoffany (1733 - 1810) 

Sir John Soane (1753 - 1837)

Music

Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778)

" Rule Britannia"

Samuel Wesley (1766 - 1837)

Sir Henry Bishop (1786 - 1855)

Home Sweet Home 

Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900) Nathaniel Adams Coles 

(’Nat King Cole’) (1919 - 1965)

Entertainers

Sir Harry Lauder (1879 - 1950) 

David Nixon (1919 - 1978) 

Cyril Fletcher (1913 - 2005) 

Geraldo (1904 - 1974) 

Nat Jackley (1909 - 1988) 

Alfred Marks OBE (1921 - 1996) 

Jim Davidson OBE (b:1953) 

Edmundo Ros OBE (1910 - 2011) 

Cyril Stapleton (1914 - 1974) 

Tommy Trinder CBE (1909 - 1989) Jimmy Wheeler (1910 - 1970) 

Oliver Hardy (1892 - 1957) 

Roger de Courcey (b;1944) 

Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926)

Harry H Corbett OBE (1925 - 1982) ‘Bud’ Abbott (1895 - 1974)

Ernest Borgnine

Peter Sellers

Richard Todd

Richard Pryor

Sportsmen

Harold Abrahams CBE (1899 - 1978) ‘Jackie’ Milburn (1924 - 1988) 

Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885 - 1948) 

Sir Donald Campbell CBE (1921 - 1967) Sir Leonard ‘Len’ Hutton (1916 - 1990) John ‘Jock’ Stein (1922 - 1985) 

Sir Alec Rose (1908 - 1991) 

Sir Clive Lloyd CBE, AO (b:1941) 

Jim Peters (1918 - 1999) 

Sir Arthur Gold (1917 - 2002) 

Len Shackleton (1922 - 2000) 

Joe Wade (1921 - 2005) 

Leslie Compton (1912 - 1984) 

Herbert Sutcliffe (1894 - 1978)

Bill Bowes (1908 - 1987) 

William ‘Jack’ Dempsey (1895 - 1983) Arnold Palmer (1929 - 2016) 

Sugar Ray Robinson (1921 - 1989) 

Tony Allcock MBE (b: 1955) 

Sir ‘Alf’ Ramsey (1920 - 1999) 

Peter Ebdon (b:1970) 

Mark Wildman (b: 1936)

“Smokin’ Joe” Frazier (1944 - 2011))