| Viscount Moore was afterwards
6th Earl and 2nd Marquis of Drogheda and a Field Marshal in
the Army.
The Warrant is the original and of the small size type as
first issued by the Grand Lodge of Ireland. As was usual
with Warrants at that time it had no distinctive name.
112 Members were registered by' Grand Lodge up to 19th June
1830 and on 6th May 1835 the Grand Lodge minutes record that
the remaining members of the Lodge had sent in the Warrant
to be laid up 'with a donation of one guinea to the Orphan
School.
At the foot of the Warrant is the following Endorsement
:~This Warrant re-issued January 1878 to Bros. Thos. Shaw-Hellier,
John Hanly and Laurence Murphy (4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards).
Signed Saml. Oldham, Dep. Grand Sec., 11th Jan. 1878.
When the Warrant of 295 was resuscitated in 1878 the only
member alive was W. Bro. Lieut.-General Sir Edward Hodge,
who had commanded the Regiment with great gallantry in the
Crimea.
In reading these Notes it will be seen that being an Ambulatory
Lodge it was Warranted in the Regiment and generally speaking
its activities have been largely concerned with the areas
in which the Regiment has served. It does not (and never
has done) work under any Province or District as is the case
with Stationary Lodges and is controlled direct by the Grand
Lodge of Ireland.
The Regiment was raised in 1685 (King James II).
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