ABSTRACT

Thomas Dunckerley is a late eighteenth-century icon of British Freemasonry. In one of the first books to provide a scholarly study of English Freemasonry, Sommers uses Dunckerley’s case to examine the changeable nature of personal identity in the eighteenth century and the evolving methodology and expectations of biography.

chapter |4 pages

Prologue: In the A ermath of War

chapter 1|16 pages

The Making of a Myth

chapter 2|16 pages

ose he Le Behind

chapter 3|12 pages

Dunckerley all at Sea

chapter 4|14 pages

Dunckerley Ashore

chapter 5|12 pages

The Trappings of Royalty

chapter 6|14 pages

Making a Mason

chapter 7|18 pages

Provincial Grand Master of England

chapter 8|28 pages

Appendant Orders and Higher Degrees

chapter 9|18 pages

Apotheosis