Lachlan Rose Croix Chapter

No 219, Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
for the States and Territories of Australia
and its Districts and Chapters overseas.
Forbes, Australia.



LIST OF SOVEREIGNS


From Consecration 18 December 1899



LACHLAN CHAPTER No 21, Scottish Constitution.

   1899 - 1901      Stanley L.Peyton, Foundation M.W.S.
   1901 - 1902      George Golding
   1902 - 1903      M.J.O'Brien
   1908 - 1910      George Golding
      (these meetings were held at S.L.Peytons residence, Mosman.)
   1911 - 1912      S.L.Peyton (held in Town Hall Forbes.)
   1912 - 1913      Wallace Hunter
   1913 - 1914      Charles Burton
   1914 - 1915      Edward John Plunket
   1915 - 1916      Neil Graham McMillan
   1916 - 1917      Harcourt Holcombe
   1917 - 1918       James Chislom Jenkinson
   1918 - 1919      William Sinclair
   1919 - 1922       Edward John PIunket
   1924 - 1933       Neil Graham McMillan
          (there are no minutes from, 26/3/24 to reconsecration 15/4/33)
   1933 - 1935      Rev. James Humphery Costello
          These names are taken from the Presence Book,
there is no Minute Book covering this period, 1935 to 1953
   1935 - 1937      Edward John Grinsted
   1937 - 1939      Winfred Jocelyn Cox
   1939 - 1940      Gladstone Roy Kennith Newham
   1940 - 1941       James Ogilvie Berman
(closed for duration of War)
   1945 - 1946      James Cobley
   1946 - 1947      David C. Sherrit
   1947 - 1948      John A.Wilkey
   1948 - 1949      David Joseph William Herbert
   1949 - 1950      John Harold Boyd
   1950 - 1951      Wilfred A.Morrow Strong
   1951 - 1952      Douglas Graham Wythes
   1952 - 1953      Basil Bartley Gaggin
   1953 - 1954       Ernest Henry Milton
   1954 - 1955      Albert Oppy
   1955 - 1956      Athol Wallace Gaggin
   1956 - 1957      George E.Baker
   1957 - 1958      John Mcdowel Smith
   1958 - 1959      Frederick Joseph Harding
   1959 - 1960      James Robert Baker
   1960 - 1961      Colin Francis Williams
   1961 - 1962      Douglas Cyril Hodby
   1962 - 1963      Leslie Gilbert Mortimer
   1963 - 1964      William Francis Webb Painter


LACHLAN SOVEREIGN CHAPTER
No 6, Australian Constitution (1964)

On 16 May 1964 Chapter was consecrated under Australian Rite,
old Charter sent back to Scotland.

   1964 - 1965      Herman Wellington Rees
   1965 - 1966      Arthur Norton
   1966 - 1967      William Cecl Little
   1967 - 1968       Ernest John Constable
   1968 - 1970       Harold Graham McMillan
(Owing to the sudden death of C.A.Stoneman)
   1970 - 1971      Frederick James Williams
   1971 - 1972      Hedley Neil Taylor
   1972 - 1973      Henry Maxwell Harriott
   1973 - 1974      William Robert Adams
   1974 - l975      Leslie John Ware
   1975 - 1976      Geoffrey Cotterel Adams
   1976 - 1977      Peter Robert Muffet
   1977 - 1978      Clarence Arthur Gordon Unger
   1978 - 1979      William Swindley
   1979 - 1980       Reginald Swindley
   1980 - 1981      Allan Maxwell Toole
   1981 - 1982      Norman Maxwell Harriott
   1982 - 1983      Edward George Davis
   1983 - 1984      Lester Gunn
   1984 - 1985      Eric William Leaney
   1985 - 1986      John Hamilton Herbert
   1986 - 1987      Herbert Stanley Wheeldon
   1987 - 1988      Stuart McLean Noble
   1988 - 1989       John Frederick Becke

   
LACHLAN CHAPTER No 219, Australian Constitution (1990)

   
Amalgamated with other Chapters to form the Australian Rite.
   1990 - 1991      Maurice Alexander Scott
   1991 - 1992      Ross Barrington Pereira
   1992 - 1993      John Ford Boland
   1993 - 1994      Francis William Wilson
   1994 - 1995      Arthur Charles Flint
   1995 - 1996      Edward Stewart McMillan
   1996 - 1997      Harold Leslie Rout
   1997 - 1998      Frederick Desmond Paull
   1998 - 1999      H.Bert Hart
   1999 - 2000      Hilton E. Ellis
   2000 - 2001      Samuel Guy Beattie
   2001 - 2002      Donald N.S.Bright
   2002 - 2003      Samuel Guy Beattie
   2003 - 2004      Samuel Guy Beattie
   2004 - 2005      Fred D.Paull
   2005 - 2006      Greg Summerhayes
   2006 - 2007      Greg Summerhayes
   2007 - 2008      H.Bert Hart

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