![[Horatio Herbert Kitchener]](https://dev.freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/images/kitchener_h.jpg)
“Kitchener wants you” poster |
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September 22, 1850 – June 6, 1916
1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome
Born near Ballylongford, Kerry, Ireland, in 1899 Kitchener was appointed Governer General of Sudan and from 1902-09 he was Commander in Chief of India. Appointed Secretary of State for War in 1914, Lord Kitchener was lost at sea in the sinking of the British cruiser HMS Hampshire. |
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1883 |
Initiated in La Concordia Lodge, Cairo, UGLE |
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1885 |
Affiliated Bulwer Lodge, No. 1068, Cairo, senior Lodge in Egypt |
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1885 |
Founding member of Drury Lane Lodge No. 2127, London |
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1890 |
Joined Hellas (later Grecia) Lodge No. 1105, Cairo, UGLE |
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1892 |
Joined Star of the East Chapter, No 1335, Cairo |
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1892 |
Worshipful Master Grecia Lodge No. 1105, Cairo |
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1895 |
Founder and Honorary Worshipful Master of The Fatieh Lodge under the National Grand Lodge of Egypt |
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1895 |
Past Senior District Grand Warden (Egypt & the Sudan) |
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1896 |
MEZ of Star of the East Chapter |
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1896 |
Third Grand Principal, Grand Chapter Egypt |
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1897 |
Past Grand Warden UGLE |
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1897 |
Grand Scribe Nehemia, Past Rank, Supreme Grand Chapter of England |
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1898 |
Honorary member of Lodge of Edinburgh Mary’s Chapel, No. 1, Scottish Constitution |
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1898 |
WM of Nubia Mark Lodge, No 511, Egypt |
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1898 |
District Grand Junior Warden of the District Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons, District of North Africa |
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1899 |
District Grand Master Egypt and Sudan |
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1902 |
Past Grand Warden, and District Grand Master, Punjab, India |
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1903 |
Joined Himalayan Brotherhood Lodge, No 459, Simla, India |
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1903 |
Senior Founder Member of Kitchener Lodge No 2998, Simla, India |
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1907 |
Assisted at the Initiation, Passing and Raising of H.M. Habibullah Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, in Lodge Concordia No 3102 in Calcutta
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