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Authorised form of nameArthur William Patrick Albert (1850 - 1942); Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Dates1850 - 1942
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBuckingham Palace, London, England
Date of birth01 May 1850
Place of deathBagshot Park, England
Date of death16/01/1942
ActivityFreemason, intiated 24 March 1874 Prince Wales's Lodge No 259, London
Honours:
KG 1867; Duke 1874; Earl of Sussex 1874; CB 1882; GBE 1917
Membership categoryRoyal Fellow
Date of election08/11/1906
RelationshipsThe seventh child of Queen Victoria, brother of HRH Albert Edward, Prince fo Wales, Later Edward VII.
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 17 June 1876, 16 July 1913
'Freemasons and the Royal Society: Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were also Masons' Library and Museum of Freemqasonry, 2010, page 5
Royal Society codeNA762
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
NLB/7/627Copy letter from Michael Foster, to G F Bambridge, Clarence House for the Prince of Wales, St James's; Sir F Knollys for the Prince of Wales; Colonel A M Egerton for the Duke of Connaught; Sir F de Winton for the Duke of York; Colonel A C F Fitzgeorge for the Duke of Cambridge24 March 1893
NLB/14/678Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Colonel A M Egerton27 April 1897
NLB/33/833Copy letter from the President of the Royal Society [John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh], to His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn [Arthur William Patrick Albert, Fellow of the Royal Society]9 November 1906
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