FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN MASONS
Australia has had a number of Prime Ministers and eminent people who have been Freemasons, this page presents just a few:
Prime Ministers:
- Sir Edmund Barton
- George Houstoun Reid
- Joseph Cook
- Stanley Melbourne Bruce
- Earle Christmas Grafton Page
- Robert Gordon Menzies
- Arthur Fadden
- John McEwan
- John Gorton
- Sir William McMahon
Sports Men:
- Sir Donald Bradman (Worlds greatest cricket batsman)
- Sir Hubert Opperman (World cycling legend)
- William Albert Stanley (Bert) Oldfield (Test cricketer)
- Sir Walter Lindrum (World billiards and snooker legend)
- Bill Lawry (Cricketer and Commentator)
- Bill Ponsford (Cricketer)
- Bobby Simpson (Cricketer)
- Sir James Hardy (Olympian and Winemaker)
Pioneers:
- Francis Howard Greenway (Pioneer Architect)
- Joseph Banks (First Australian Botanist)
- Captain Matthew Flinders (First to circumnavigate Australia)
- Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (Aviator)
Eminent people:
- Fred Walker (Inventor of Vegemite)
- Harry Melbourne (Inventor of the Freddo Frog)
- Lachlan Macquarie (NSW Governor)
- Sir Weary Dunlop (War hero)
- Thomas Mayne (Inventor of Milo)
- James Boag (Brewer)
- Frederick Peters (Founder of Peter’s ice cream)
- Cecil Albert Gregory (Founder of Gregory’s street directory)