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Apollo University Lodge No 357 is a Masonic Lodge based at the University of Oxford aimed at past and present members of the university. It was consecrated in 1819, and its members have met continuously since then. == University of Oxford == Membership of the lodge is restricted to those who have matriculated as members of the University of Oxford. The Lodge's historic records, from its foundation until 2005, are housed in the university's Bodleian Library. The lodge is primarily a part of university social life, but is also involved in other areas of university life through projects such as the Apollo Bursary, administered by the university, through which lodge members provide financial support to certain students. Due to its association with the university it has had famous members such as Cecil Rhodes, Oscar Wilde, and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. To celebrate the bicentenary of the Lodge in 2019, a comprehensive history book was written. It was published in February 2019 by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Entitled "Oxford Freemasons: A Social History of the Apollo University Lodge", the book is co-authored by Professor J. Mordaunt Crook, an architectural historian, former Slade Professor and Waynflete Lecturer at the University of Oxford, and former Public Orator and Professor of Architectural History at the University of London (who is not a Freemason), and Dr James Daniel, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, who has been a member of the Lodge for over fifty years, and is also a former Grand Secretary (chief executive) of the United Grand Lodge of England. == Character == The Lodge (together with the parallel Isaac Newton University Lodge in Cambridge University) has traditionally enjoyed certain privileges, including the right to initiate matriculated members of the university regardless of their age (other Lodges in England and Wales are restricted to candidates aged 21 or older, except by special permission), and the right to initiate candidates in large groups (other lodges are restricted to a maximum of two candidates at a time, except by special permission). In 2005 the Universities Scheme was established, inspired by the long success of Apollo University Lodge and Isaac Newton University Lodge, and now brings similar privileges to more than eighty university masonic lodges in universities across England and Wales. == Other lodges == Apollo University Lodge is the principal masonic lodge for members of the University of Oxford. Other Oxford University lodges include Churchill Lodge No 478 (consecrated 1841) for senior members of the university, St Mary Magdalen Lodge No 1523 (consecrated 1875) for members of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Aedes Christi Lodge No 9304 (consecrated 1989) for members of Christ Church, Oxford. The Oxford and Cambridge University Lodge No 1118 (consecrated 1866) is a London-based lodge for members of both universities. == Notable members == Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet, educational reformer and politician Richard Acland, Labour politician and founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Herbert Alleyne, footballer William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany, Unionist politician Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston, Conservative Home Secretary John Hungerford Arkwright, Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire Josceline Amherst, member of the first Western Australian Legislative Council under responsible government, barrister, and cricketer Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist and social reformer George Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith, barrister and civil servant Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk, Conservative politician Jonathan Baker, Anglican Bishop of Fulham Augustus Bampfylde, 2nd Baron Poltimore, Liberal politician George Bakhmeteff, Russia diplomat, and last tsarist Russian Ambassador to the United States Henry Barnes, 2nd Baron Gorell, British Army officer Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, colonial governor of Southern Rhodesia and Kenya John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton, chairman of BP Charles Barnett-Clarke, long serving Dean of Cape Town, South Africa Dunbar Barton, Irish Unionist politician, Solicitor-General for Ireland, and judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, Governor-General of New Zealand Bramston Beach, Conservative politician and Father of the House Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet, Conservative politician Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Father of the House Tim Beaumont, Green politician and Anglican clergyman Frank Evers Beddard, zoologist and naturalist aboard the Challenger expedition William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, Anglican clergyman and antiquary Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, Anglo-Irish Conservative politician Ralph Benson, cricketer and barrister James Theodore Bent, archaeologist and explorer Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford, Anglo-Irish peer and first to "Paint the Town Red" Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, newspaperman Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Tillmouth Park, Liberal politician William Henry Bliss, scholar and convert to Roman Catholicism John Edward Courtenay Bodley, civil servant George Hawkesworth Bond, Conservative politician Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom, Conservative politician and Lord Chamberlain William Copeland Borlase, Liberal politician and antiquarian Harold Boulton, songwriter and author of The Skye Boat Song Robin Bourne-Taylor, Olympic rower George Boscawen, 2nd Earl of Falmouth, Irish peer Courtenay Boyle, cricketer and civil servant William Brabazon, 11th Earl of Meath, Whig politician Henry Brassey, Liberal politician Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, Governor of Victoria Lionel Brett, justice on the Supreme Court of Nigeria William Edward Briggs, Liberal politician Robert Barrett Browning, painter Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Scottish Unionist politician and Secretary for Scotland Edward George Bruton, architect Lloyd Bryce, American politician and diplomat Frederick Brymer, Archdeacon of Wells John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, naturalist Theodore Alois Buckley, translator Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster, Liberal politician and Lord Chancellor Thomas Lowndes Bullock, colonial administrator, orientalist, and Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, Whig politician and Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard William Burdett-Coutts, Conservative politician Peter Butler, Conservative politician Sir Edward Buxton, 2nd Baronet, Liberal politician Sir Robert Buxton, 3rd Baronet, Conservative politician Francis Byng, 5th Earl of Strafford, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan, peer and billionaire Frederick William Cadogan, Liberal politician Thomas Calley, soldier and Liberal Unionist politician Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, Scottish peer and socialite Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Governor-General of India Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, Irish Whig politician Fairfax Cartwright, academic, soldier, and Conservative politician Lewis Cave, judge on the Queen's Bench Peter Cazalet, cricketeer, jockey, and racehorse trainer Tankerville Chamberlayne, landowner and politician William Champneys, Anglican clergyman and author Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, Conservative politician Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, Conservative politician and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, banker, Conservative politician, and Governor of New South Wales George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, peer who donated Osterley Park to the National Trust Esmé Chinnery, cricketeer and aviator R. Clarke Cooper, American diplomat and 19th Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs William Cholmondeley, 3rd Marquess of Cholmondeley, Conservative politician Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen, High Court Judge Charles Cecil Cotes, Liberal politician Arthur Collins, courtier and Gentleman Usher William Costin, President of St John's College, Oxford Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Charles Crosse, sportsman Albert Curtis Clark, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin Maxwell Close, Irish Conservative politician Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche, traveller across the Near East Sir Jervoise Clarke-Jervoise, 2nd Baronet, Liberal politician Tubby Clayton, founder of Toc H Frederick Coleridge, cricketer John Stanhope Collings-Wells VC, soldier Sir John Conroy, 3rd Baronet, Analytical chemist St Vincent Cotton, gambler, sportsman, socialite, and soldier Arthur Cowley, Bodley's Librarian Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper, Liberal politician and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven, peer William Crofts, rower and schoolmaster John Crichton, 4th Earl Erne, Conservative politician Wilfred Joseph Cripps, antiquarian George Bernard Cronshaw, Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Harry Crookshank, Conservative politician and Minister for Health Bargrave Deane, Justice of the High Court Maurice de Bunsen, diplomat, British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal, and Ambassador to Spain and Austria-Hungary Reginald De Koven, American composer and music critic William Des Vœux, colonial administrator, Governor of Hong Kong, Governor of Newfoundland, Governor of Fiji, High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, and Administrator of Saint Lucia Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock, peer Luke Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock, peer Douglas Dodds-Parker, Conservative politician and expert in irregular warfare Claude Gordon Douglas, physiologist George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk, Conservative politician and First Lord of the Admiralty Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home. Scottish diplomat and nobleman Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham, Conservative politician and soldier David Dundas, Liberal politician and agricultural improver Hugh Alexander Dunn, Australian diplomat Jack Duppa-Miller GC, Royal Navy officer Frederick A. Eaton, writer and editor Herbert Edlmann, first-class cricketer Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Conservative politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and namesake for Ellesmere Island, Canada Piers Egerton-Warburton, Conservative politician William Ellison-Macartney, Governor of Tasmania and Western Australia Hugh Ellis-Nanney, Welsh landowner and magistrate Godfrey Elton, historian Stephen Elvey, organist and composer Walter Erskine, Earl of Mar and Kellie, peer Edward Estridge, cricketer William John Evelyn, Conservative politician Arthur Faber, cricketer Geoffrey Faber, publisher and poet George Fardell, Conservative politician John Fawcett, organist Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, Conservative politician Governor-General of New Zealand and South Australia Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet, Conservative politician George Finch, chemist and mountaineer, the first man to climb over 8,000 meters Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham, Conservative politician, Minister of Information and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Charles FitzGerald, 4th Duke of Leinster, peer Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton, peer William Fletcher, rugby union international Sir Henry Ralph Fletcher-Vane, 4th Baronet, peer Adrian Flook, Conservative politician Sir Samuel Fludyer, 3rd Baronet, peer Richard Fort, Liberal politician Hubert Freakes, South African rugby player Stephen Herbert Gatty, Chief Justice of Gibraltar Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, Labour politician and Lord Chancellor Richard Garth, Conservative politician and Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court Alfred Gathorne-Hardy, Conservative politician Sir William Geary, 3rd Baronet, Conservative politician Alban Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham, Conservative politician Philip Glazebrook, Conservative politician George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton, Liberal politician and Paymaster General Sir Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet, diplomat and British Ambassador to the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, and Serbia Harry Graham, Conservative politician Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, historian and Principal of the University of Edinburgh William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, sportsman, athlete, and politician Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Liberal politician and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Leslie Green, philosopher of law Archibald Grove, magazine editor and Liberal politician William Edward Gumbleton, horticulturist Alfred Gurney, clergyman and author Frederick William Hall, classicist and President of St John's College, Oxford Frederick Halsey, Conservative politician James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, Conservative politician and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, peer and socialite William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton, peer Walter Kerr Hamilton, Bishop of Salisbury Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Conservative politician Stuart Hampson, chairman of John Lewis Partnership Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield, Liberal politician William Harcourt, 2nd Viscount Harcourt, businessman Harold B. Hartley, physical chemist Charles Harris, Church of England Bishop of Gibraltar John Burland Harris-Burland, fantasy writer Edmund Samuel Hayes Irish Conservative politician Arthur Heath, industrialist, rugby international, and Conservative politician Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh, Conservative politician John Hely-Hutchinson, 5th Earl of Donoughmore, Irish peer John Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore, Conservative politician Auberon Herbert, Liberal politician and theorist of Voluntaryism Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Conservative politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold, Conservative politician Edward Hewetson, cricketeer James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford, Irish peer Henry Hoare, cricketer Bertram Maurice Hobby, English entomologist Samuel Reynolds Hole, Anglican clergyman and horticulturist Gordon Honeycombe, newscaster for ITN Sir Archibald Philip Hope, 17th Baronet, aviator John Hornsby, cricketer Henry Tufton, 1st Baron Hothfield, Liberal politician Henry Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham, peer Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington, Conservative politician