Frühe Freimaurer

                     1600-1704; dazu die Boswells

 

Dokumentiert sind

(siehe laut David Stevenson, 1988, 197-198, vermutlich auch William Schaw und die Sinclairs, Herren von Roslin - seither viele weitere)

 

Laird of Auchinleck, John Boswell (1600)
His signature and mark on the records of a meeting of the Lodge of Edinburgh held at Holyrood on June 8th, 1600 constitute the earliest authentic record of a speculative Freeemason

Lord Alexander (Viscount of Canada) Sir Anthony Alexander und Sir Alexander Strachan (1634)

Henry Alexander (1638)

General Alexander Hamilton (1640)

Sir Robert Moray, erster Präsident der Royal Society (1641)

Sir Patrick Hume and the Earl of Machmount

Elias Ashmole (1646) included in his diary reference to his having been a member of a masonic lodge on 16 October 1646

Alexander Seaton (1672)

Earl of Cassillis, Graf von Eglintoune, Sir Alexander Cunnigham, Lord William Cochrane (1672)

Sir Christopher Wren, Erbauer der St. Pauls Cathedral (1685)

Randle Holme, Englischer Schriftsteller (1688)

Jonathan Belcher, first native born American (1704)

 

 

The Boswells

 

Alexander Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, Senator of the College of Justice and Lord of Judiciary 1756
member of the Lodge of Edinburgh

John Boswell (Alexander's brother), b 1710, President of the Royal College of Physicians; Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Scotland 1753-54

James Boswell (Alexander's eldest son), 1740-1795; Scottish man-of-letters, lawyer and biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Master of Canongate Kilwinning Lodge for two terms
February 1777 - honorary member of Edinburgh Lodge
1776-1778 - Deputy Grand Master of Scotland (declined nomination for Grand Master)

Sir Alexander Boswell (James' son), 1775-1822
Scottish songwriter and printer, he composed many Masonic songs including "The Mother Lodge, Kilwinning."
Master Mother Kilwinning Lodge December 21, 1820
Provincial Grand Master for Ayrshire