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WM Christopher O'Brien : SD Bro Noel O'Brien : MM Joseph O' Brien :

William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin, KB, PC(I) (1700 - 18 July 1777) was a British peer and politician.

O'Brien was the eldest son of William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin, 8th Baron Inchiquin and his wife, Mary (née Villiers), sister of the 1st Earl of Jersey, and inherited his father's titles in 1719. On 29 March 1720, he married his cousin, Lady Anne Hamilton, the eldest daughter and heiress of George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, and his wife Elizabeth (née Villiers). They had five children:

Lady Mary (c.1721-1791), later 3rd Countess of Orkney

William, styled Lord O'Brien (1725-1727)

George, styled Lord O'Brien (1727-1728)

Augustus, styled Lord O'Brien (died in infancy)

Murrough, styled Lord O'Brien, later styled Viscount Kirkwall (1731-1741)

He married, secondly, Mary Moore, daughter of Stephen Moore, 1st Viscount Mountcashell and Alicia Colville, on 12 October 1761

Inchiquin was Whig Member of Parliament for Windsor from 1722 to 1727, for Tamworth from 1727 to 1734, for Camelford from 1741 to 1747 and for Aylesbury from 1747 to 1754. In 1725, he had been appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath. From 1740 to 1741, he was Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, Governor of County Clare from 1741 to 1777 and Custos Rotulorum of County Clare from 1762 to 1767. From 1744 to 1751, he was a Lord of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales and admitted to the Privy Council of Ireland in 1753. On his death in 1777, without surviving male heirs, his titles passed to his nephew, Murrough O'Brien, who was later created Marquess of Thomond.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Sir Henry Ashurst Samuel Travers	Member of Parliament for Windsor with Earl of Burford 1722-1726 Lord Vere Beauclerk 1726-1727 1722-1727	Succeeded by Lord Vere Beauclerk Viscount Malpas
Preceded by Hon. Francis Willoughby Hon. George Compton	Member of Parliament for Tamworth with Thomas Willoughby 1727-1734	Succeeded by Lord John Sackville Hon. George Compton
Preceded by Sir Thomas Lyttleton Hon. James Cholmondeley	Member of Parliament for Camelford with Charles Montagu 1741-1747	Succeeded by The Earl of Londonderry Samuel Martin
Preceded by Charles Pilsworth Hon. William Stanhope	Member of Parliament for Aylesbury with Edward Willes 1747-1754	Succeeded by Thomas Potter John Willes
Masonic offices
Preceded by Lord Paisley	Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England 1726-1727	Succeeded by The Lord Coleraine
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by William O'Brien	Earl of Inchiquin 1719-1777	Succeeded by Murrough O'Brien

The Premier Grand Lodge of England was founded on 24 June 1717 as the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster and it existed

until 1813 when it united with the Ancient Grand Lodge of England to create the United Grand Lodge of England. It was the first Masonic Grand Lodge to be created. The basic principles of the Grand Lodge of England were inspired by the ideal of tolerance and universal understanding of the Enlightenment and by the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century (Age of Reason).

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Premier Grand Lodge of England

The Grand Lodge was founded after George I, the first Hanoverian king of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ascended to the throne on 1 August 1714 and the end of the first Jacobite rising of 1715.[1]

Officially, the Grand Lodge of England was founded on St. John the Baptist's day, 24 June 1717, in London, when four Craft Lodges gathered at the Goose and Gridiron Ale-house in St. Paul's Church-yard in London and constituted themselves a Grand Lodge. The four lodges had previously met together in 1716 at the Apple-Tree Tavern, "and having put into the Chair the oldest Master Mason (now the Master of a Lodge), they constituted themselves a Grand Lodge pro Tempore in due form." It was at that meeting in 1716 that they resolved to hold the Annual Assembly and Feast and then choose a Grand Master from among themselves, which they did the following year. The four participating lodges were accustomed to meeting at the Goose and Gridiron Ale-house in St. Paul's Church-yard (Lodge now called Lodge of Antiquity No. 2); the Crown Ale-house in Parker's Lane near Drury Lane; the Apple-Tree Tavern in Charles Street, Covent Garden (Lodge now called Lodge of Fortitude and Old Cumberland No. 12); and at the Rummer and Grapes Tavern in Channel Row, Westminster (Lodge now called Royal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge No. IV). The Rummer and Grapes appears to have been a lodge of accepted and speculative masons, while the other three lodges were still mainly operative lodges.[2][3]

During the early decades of the Grand Lodge it was not the "Grand Lodge of England," either in name on in the minds of its members. Rather, it limited its jurisdiction to lodges in London and Westminster. This was a restriction that had applied to the old London Masons' Company.[4]

Constitution

George Payne, in his second term as Grand Master in 1720 wrote the General Regulations of a Free Mason, which were printed in 1722/3[5]. In 1723 the Grand Lodge of England set up a constitution for Free and Accepted Masons The Constitutions of the Free-Masons containing the History, Charges, Regulations, & of that most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity: For use of the Lodges, written by the Revd. Dr. James Anderson (1680-1739). A reworked version of the Constitutions was published in 1738 (by Anderson) and again in 1818 after the union of Ancients' Grand Lodge and the Moderns Grand Lodge.

Grand Masters

The first Grand Master was Mr. Anthony Sayer, who was succeeded by George Payne esq. in 1718. The Grand Masters John Theophilus Desaguliers and John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu were Fellows of the Royal Society.

1717, Anthony Sayer

1718, George Payne

1719, John Theophilus Desaguliers

1720, George Payne

1721-1723, John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu

1723, Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton

1723-1724 Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch

1724 Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

1725, James Hamilton, Lord Paisley

1726, William O'Brien, Earl of Inchiquin

1727, Lord Colerane

1728, Lord Kingston

1730, Duke of Norfolk

1731, Lord Lovell

1732, Lord Viscount Montague

1733, Earl of Strathmore

1734, Earl of Crawford

1735, Lord Weymouth

1736, Earl of Loudoun

1737, Earl of Darnley

1738, Marquis of Carnarvon

1739, Lord Raymond

1740, Earl of Kintore

1741, Earl of Morton

1742-1744, Lord Ward

1745-1747, Lord Cranston

1747-1752, William Byron, 5th Baron Byron

1752-1753, Lord Carysfort

1754-1757, Marquis of Carnarvon

1757-1762, Lord Aberdour

1762-1764, Earl Ferrers

1764-1767, Lord Blaney

1767-1772, Duke of Beaufort

1772-1777, Lord Petre

1777-1782, Duke of Manchester

1782-1790, Duke of Cumberland

1792-1812, Prince of Wales

1790-1812 Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira (Acting Grand Master)

1813, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex

History of Freemasonry

References

^ The foundation of the first Grand Lodge in context

^ Jones, Bernard E.; Freemasons' Guide and Compendium, pg. 171; 1950, 1982, Publ. by Harrap Ltd., London. ISBN 0-245-56125-0

^ Coil, Henry Wilson; "England, Grand Lodge of," pg. 232. Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia, 1961, 1996, Macoy Publ. Co., Richmond Va.; ISBN-0-88053-054-5

^ Coil, Henry Wilson; "England, Grand Lodge of," pg. 232-233. Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia, 1961, 1996, Macoy Publ. Co., Richmond Va.

^ 1721 - General Regulations of a Free Mason

The History of Grand Lodge - the Two Grand Lodges - Unification - consolidation and growth

Brief History Of Freemasonry

Joseph Fort Newton, The Builders Ch. 11 (1914)

History of the Revival of Masonry in the South of England

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