Monarchs
King George IV (1762 – 1830) King William IV (1765 – 1837) King Edward VII (1841 – 1910) King Edward VIII (1894 – 1972) King George VI (1895 – 1952)
Statesmen
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) George Canning (1770 – 1827) Lord Randolph Churchill (1849 – 1895) Cecil Rhodes (1852 – 1903) Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) Leopold S. Amery (1873 – 1955)
Religion
Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (1887 – 1972) Sir Israel Brodie (1895 – 1979)
Scientists
Sir Joseph Banks (1744 – 1820) Dr Edward Jenner (1749 – 1823) Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 – 1955) Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877 – 1947)
Explorers
Sir Richard Burton (1821 – 1890) Capt Robert Falcon Scott, RN (1868 – 1912) Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 – 1922)
Charity
Dr T. J. Barnardo (1845 – 1905) 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851 – 1925) Sir William “Billy” Butlin (1899 – 1980)
Actors
David Garrick (1717 – 1779) Edmund Kean (1787 – 1833) Sir Henry Irving (1838 – 1905 ) Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902 – 1968) Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) Ernest Borgnine (1917 – 2012)
Writers
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) Edward Gibbon (1734 – 1794) Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) Robbie Burns (1759 – 1796) Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) Sir William S. Gilbert (1836 – 1911) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) Rudyard Kipling(1865 – 1936)
Artists
Sir James Thornhill (1676 – 1734) William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) John Zoffany (1733 – 1810) Sir John Soane (1753 – 1837)
Music
Thomas Arne (1710 – 1778) Rule Britannia Samuel Wesley (1766 – 1837) Sir Henry Bishop (1786 – 1855) Home Sweet Home Sir Arthur Sullivan(1842 – 1900) Nathaniel Adams Coles (’Nat King Cole’) (1919 – 1965)
Entertainers
Sir Harry Lauder (1879 – 1950) David Nixon (1919 – 1978) Cyril Fletcher (1913 – 2005) Geraldo (1904 – 1974) Nat Jackley (1909 – 1988) Alfred Marks OBE (1921 – 1996) Jim Davidson OBE (b:1953) Edmundo Ros OBE (1910 – 2011) Cyril Stapleton (1914 – 1974) Tommy Trinder CBE (1909 – 1989) Jimmy Wheeler (1910 – 1970) Oliver Hardy (1892 – 1957) Roger de Courcey (b:1944) Harry Houdini (1874 – 1926) Harry H Corbett OBE(1925 – 1982) ‘Bud’ Abbott (1895 – 1974)
Sportsmen
Harold Abrahams CBE (1899 – 1978) ‘Jackie’ Milburn (1924 – 1988) Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885 – 1948) Sir Donald Campbell CBE (1921 – 1967) Sir Leonard ‘Len’ Hutton (1916 – 1990) John ‘Jock’ Stein (1922 – 1985) Sir Alec Rose (1908 – 1991) Sir Clive Lloyd CBE, AO (b:1941) Jim Peters(1918 – 1999) Sir Arthur Gold (1917 – 2002) Trevor Simpson Len Shackleton (1922 – 2000) Joe Wade (1921 – 2005) Leslie Compton (1912 – 1984) Herbert Sutcliffe (1894 – 1978) Bill Bowes (1908 – 1987) Sir Thomas Lipton Bt, KCVO 1848 – 1931) William ‘Jack’ Dempsey (1895 – 1983) Arnold Palmer (b: 1929) Sugar Ray Robinson(1921 – 1989) Tony Allcock MBE (b: 1955) Sir ‘Alf’ Ramsey (1920 – 1999) Peter Ebdon (b:1970) Mark Wildman (b: 1936) “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier (1944 – 2011)
Army
General Sir John Moore (1761 – 1809) Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington KG (1769 – 1852) Field Marshal The Earl Roberts of Kandahar VC, KG, KP (1832 – 1914) Field Marshal The Earl Kitchener of Khartoum KG, KP (1850 – 1916) Field Marshal Sir John French, 1st Earl of Ypres KP(1852 – 1925) Field Marshal The Earl Haig KT (1861 – 1928) General Sir Reginald Wingate Bt, GCB, GCVO, GBE, KCMG, DSO, TD (1861 – 1953) Field Marshal The Viscount Wolseley KP (1883 – 1913) Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck GCB, GCIE, CSI, DSO, OBE (1884 – 1981) Field Marshal The Earl Alexander of Tunis KG (1891 – 1969) William Cody ‘Buffalo Bill’ (1846 – 1917) Lieutenant-Colonel ‘Paddy’ Maine DSO***(1915 – 1955)
Navy
Admiral Sir Sidney Smith KCB(1764 – 1840) Admiral The Lord Beresford GCB, GCVO (1841 – 1919) Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Jellicoe GCB, OM, GCVO, SGM (1859 – 1935)
Royal Air Force
Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Newall GCB, OM, GCMG, CBE, AM (1886 – 1963) Squadron Leader Henry Melvin “Dinghy” Young DFC* (1915 – 1943)
The Provincial Grand Lodge of Nottinghamshire (link below), gives a more comprehensive listings for those interested.
https://www.nottinghamshiremasons.co.uk/about-freemasonry/famous-british-freemasons#actors