Laying the foundation stone. Rotherham Hospital and Dispensary.

Date:
[1870]
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Credit: Laying the foundation stone. Rotherham Hospital and Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    account, but will at once proceed to propose the healths of my friends and superiors, and leaders. Lord Zetland, the Grand Master of England ; and and Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Deputy Grand Master. (Cheers). Everyone in Rotherham, if they feel as I feel, must appreciate the kindness, of a gentleman in Lord de Grey’s position coming amongst us to do an act like this which he has done to-day. (Hear, hear.) We shall all drink with enthusiasm to his health and long happiness, and as he has once made his appearance amongst us, we hope it will not be the last time we shall see his face. (Cheers.) I beg to give you “The health of Lord Zetland, Lord de Grey and Ripon, and Officers of the Grand Lodge.” (Cheers.) Earl De Grey and Ripon. in responding said : On behalf of my noble friend, our most worship- ful Grand Master, on my own behalf, and that of the other officers of the Grand Lodge of England, I beg to return you all my warmest thanks for the manner in which you have been pleased to' receive the toast so kindly proposed by my noble friend in the chair. I can assure you that there mixes but one feeling of regret in my mind in connection with the toast, and that is that I fear this is one of the last occasions upon which it will be my duty, or that of any other Freemason, to return thanks for Lord Zetland as our most worshipful Grand Master. Those of you in this room who do not belong to our craft must of course be ignorant of the especial service which Lord Zetland hss rendered to Freemasonry now for more than a quarter of a century—(hear, hear)—but I am confident that there is no one in this room who has the honour and happiness of knowing Lord Zetland, whether it be as the Lord Lieutenant of a neighbouring Riding, or whether it be only as a fellow Yorkshireman, who will not be convinced that he must have rendered great service to any institution which has had the good fortune to be' under his guidance for so long a period. (Cheers.) I believe I speak the unanimous feeling of the craft when I say it is with sensations of poignant regret that we find that in his lordship’s opinion the time has come when we must lose his services as our Grand Master; but I am confident that it will be a great satisfaction to him to learn that his name has been received so warmly on an oc- casion like this—that one more proof has been given by the bretheren of the craft of their high estimation of the work which for 25 years he has done for them. (Cheers.) The Mayor of Sheffield proposed the next toast; “ The Archbishop, clergy, and ministers of all denominations.” He congratulated the people of Rotherham upon the good: work which they had commenced that day, a work which had become a necessity in the town in consequence of the great increase of population, and the large number of
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