RT. WBRO. ARTHUR CLAUDE BOTTOMLEY
Upon his resignation, Rt. WBro. Bhogilal Shah installed WBro. Arthur Claude Bottomley, the then Deputy DGM, as the District Grand Master for Bombay.
A portrait of Rt. WBro. Bhogilal Shah was unveiled by Rt. WBro. Bottomley after the Communication.
23 Lodges out of 51, having opted to join GLI, the new DGM’s first task was to ask his Board of General Purposes to take fresh stock of the situation.
The Assistant Secretary, WBro. M.V.S. Iyer was promoted as District Grand Secretary, which in later years established him as being one of the most efficient secretaries the District had.
It was very sad and shocking when news reached Bombay in December that Rt. WBro. Bottomley had passed away at Essen, Germany. He had gone for a holiday cum business trip in October to UK and Germany. Brethren remember his as a friend of junior Masons, ever ready to guide and assist in rituals and explaining several allegories behind them. He was as Dy. DGM a regular visitor of Bardi Lodge of Instruction (then actively working under Lodge Universal Brotherhood No. 3835).
⦁ Installed as DGM, by Rt. WBro. Bhogilal C. Shah on 9th January 1962
⦁ Was Initiated in Calcutta on 25th May 1921 in Lodge Justice No. 3130 EC
⦁ He then joined Lodge Gymkhana No. 3796 EC Bombay on 11th November 1921
⦁ He was Passed and Raised in that Lodge on 13th January 1922 and 10th February 1922
⦁ He was Master of that Lodge in 1938-39 and 1955-56
⦁ He was made District Senior Grand Deacon in 1941-42 and given the active rank of District Senior Grand Warden in 1943
⦁ In 1951, he was conferred the rank of PAGDC
⦁ He was Exalted in the Royal Arch Masonry in Chapter St. George No. 549 on 3rd October 1922