Articles for September 2007
TOM B. : The Creator of 'Wearie Willie' & 'Tired Tim'
# By W.Bro. J B Rodgers on 19th September, 2007
An old Masonic friend who collects Masonic Postcards, certificates and other ephemera recently telephoned me to ask if I could find out if Tom Browne was a member of a Lodge in Nottingham in 1901. My friend had found illustrations by “Tom B” of the Installation of the Duke of Connaught as our Grand Master (HRH Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, the third son of Queen Victoria, was Grand Master from 1901 to 1939, succeeding his brother when the latter became King Edward VII).