OSWALD OF DUNNIKIER LODGE 468 - Key Persons
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- Engineer - Kernmont Kennoway
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- Storekeeper - 23 Rosabella Street Kirkcaldy
Randolph Gordon Erskine Wemyss joined the Lodge Oswald of Dunnikier on 24th September 1888
But by 1890 and after a meeting in his district of west wemyss on 24th april 1890 he decided that a lodge be set up in that district and on the 7th august 1890 the Grand Lodge of Scotland granted a charter to Lodge Wemyss and the number 777 Bro Randolph G E Wemyss became R.W.M of that said lodge.
David Kinnear was born in Kirkcaldy during the dark days of the First World War and was educated at Viewforth Secondary School. His football career commenced at Burntisland United and he signed for Raith Rovers in 1933. He joined Rangers one year later at the age of just 17, David made 106 appearances for Rangers scoring 32 times He signed for dunfermline in 1946 and played 65 times scoring 16 goals
David Suttie McIlroy was born on 5 October 1872. He was articled to John Murray of Kirkcaldy from 1885 until 1890 when he obtained a place in Kinnear & Peddie's office as an improver. In 1891 he moved to the office of Alexander Fraser and remained there until 1899 when he moved to the office of David Forbes Smith in Kirkcaldy. In 1903 he obtained a salaried post in the Admiralty Works Department at the Rosyth naval base, but in 1905 he emigrated to Canada to work for Darling & Pearson in Winnipeg. He moved to the Canadian Northern Railway Architects' Department later the same year. In the following year he moved yet again to John Woodman. He commenced independent practice in Calgary in 1907. He was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Institute of Architects and a Commonwealth Associate member of the Edinburgh Architectural Association.
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- Insurance Agent - 24 Overton Road Kirkcaldy
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- Engineer - Castle Wynd Kinghorn
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- George Lindsay Legge Architect Kirkcaldy
He was Initiated into Lodge Oswald of Dunnikier Lodge 468 on 13/1 1896
George was born on 14/01/1874 and died 13/03/1905
George Lindsay Legge was born in Peterhead on 14 Jan 1874, the son of Rev Alexander Legge, the Congregational minister there and his wife Isabella Macdonald Leith. Nothing is yet known of Legge's early years and training. He was taken into partnership by John Daniel Swanston (b. Dundee 1868) c.1896, Swanston having commenced private practice the previous year at 196 High Street, Kirkcaldy. The practice was short-lived as Legge left Kirkcaldy to take up the post of Burgh Surveyor in Kingussie in 1903. His stay in Kingussie was also brief as he died on 13 March 1905 at Kilconquhar Manse, his father having by then moved there to become Church of Scotland minister.
He was involed in the Design of these Buildings
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- Surveyor - 34 Balsusney Road Kirkcaldy
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- Clerk - 6 Nicol Street Kirkcaldy
Initiated into lodge Oswald of Dunnikier 468 on 7/9/1891 19 Douglas Street Kirkcaldy
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- Engineer - 36 Forth Avenue North Kirkcaldy
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- Was Our First Right Worshipful Master in 1867 - 1870 and Was the Provincial Grand Master of Fife and Kinross from 1884 - 1893
Major James Townsend Oswald, Dunnikier, died in his town house, London, on 2nd June 1893, in his 72nd year. He succeeded to the estate of Dunnikier in 1840 on the death of his father, Sir John Oswald. In 1848 he married Miss ellen octavia Miles of Leigh Court, Somersetshire. He served with the Grenadier Guards, Atholl Highlanders and was one of the founders and main supporters of the Fife Light Horse. he contested Kirkcaldy Burghs on 1874 and Fife County in 1880 in the Conservative interests but was defeated on both occasions. He was an office bearer of ST Peter's Episcopal Church.
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- Clerk - 20 James Grove Kirkcaldy
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- Engineer - 6 Balsusney Road Kirkcaldy
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- Analyst - 49 Townsend Place Kirkcaldy
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- Instructor - 13 Buchanan Street Kirkcaldy
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- Chief - Mate - 12 Whytehouse Mansions
Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson joined The Oswald of Dunnikier Lodge on the 24th December 1888
He was a Scottish politician and colonial governor. He served as the sixth Governor-General of Australia(1914-1920), and is considered probably the most politically influential holder of this post. After his return to Britain he was Secretary for Scotland (1922-24).
In February 1914, therefore, Munro Ferguson was happy to accept the post of Governor-General of Australia
On his return home, he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Novar, of Raith in the County of Fife and of Novar in the County of Ross
Sir Michael Nairn of Rankeilour, 2nd Baronet. was born on 19 February 1874.2 He was the son of Sir Michael Barker Nairn of Rankeilour, 1st Baronet. He died on 24 September 1952 at age 78 Sir Michael Nairn joined the Lodge Oswald of Dunnikier 468 on the 5th March 1923
He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland He was educated at Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset, England He was educated at Marburg University, Marburg, Germany He was Director of the Bank of Scotland He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Fife He was chairman of Michael Nairn and Greenwich Ltd He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Fife He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Nairn, of Rankeilour, Collessie, and Dysart House, Dysart, co. Fife [U.K., 1904] on 24 November 1915
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- Engineer - 14 Barton Buildings Kinghorn
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- Engineer - 7 Gow Crescent Kirkcaldy
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- Chief Artificer - 28 East Albert Road Kirkcaldy
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- Engineer
- Insurance Agent
- Marine Engineer
William Morris Joined The Lodge on the 29th of July 1867 and was Treasurer from 1869 - 1874