Garrick & the Freemasonic Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

A Mason, he thought to have belonged to St. Paul’s Lodge No. 194. This lodge has a snuff box which, the old minutes state, “replaces one presented to the lodge by Bro. David Garrick.” d. Jan. 20, 1779.

 [William R. Denslowe, 10,000 Famous Freemasons (Transactions of the Missouri Lodge of Research, 1958), II, pp. 97-98]

 All these friends were members of a club Garrick had created that met at the Queen’s Arms in St Paul’s Churchyard.  He called them ‘the Brethren’. The term suggests a connection with Freemasonry and the social mix of the ‘club’ was typical of a Masonic lodge...

 …Desaguliers, moreover, made strenuous efforts to persuade writers and artists to become Masons, so that Freemasonry, occupied a central position in intellectual life.

   Garrick came to appreciate Masonic values through the loyalty of those of his friends who helped him in his attempts to establish himself as a theatre manager. He also practiced them. As we have seen, few men were as prompt in coming to friends’ or even colleagues’ assistance than he.    

[Jean Benedetti, David Garrick and the Birth of Modern Theatre (London: Methuen, 2001), pp. 88-89] 

The importance of the Jubilee in the history of Shakespeare’s reputation can hardly be exaggerated. It marks the point at which Shakespeare stopped being regarded as an increasingly popular and admirable dramatist, and became a god.

[Christian Deelman, The Great Shakespeare Jubilee (London: Michael Joseph, 1964), p. 7]

 

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[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

In 1767 David Garrick was at epicentre of the Shakespeare world. His circle of friends covered the social and literary spectrum, among them, the Bacon editor Thomas Birch, Secretary of the Baconian-Rosicrucian-Freemasonic Royal Society, Freemason Shakespeare editors Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, famous men of letters including the Freemason James Boswell, the philosopher Edmund Burke, Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington, Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, all Freemasons, and Benjamin Franklin, the most important American Freemason of his age. 

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[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

The great Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 organised by Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick was the first Shakespeare Festival. It shone a light on the obscure borough of Stratford and set it on the road to fame and glory. The three-day festival was the key centre of interest of all England and marked the true beginning of the popularisation of Shakespeare throughout the whole world.

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[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

Following his arrival in London with Dr Johnson, the future actor, playwright and theatre manager David Garrick (1716-1779) began to try and make his way in the great metropolis. Early on, he participated in amateur and professional productions, but it was his sensational debut in the title role of the Shakespeare play Richard III (one which Bacon partly based on his cousin Sir Robert Cecil),¹ at Goodman’s Fields Theatre on 19 October 1741, that established his reputation in the theatre world and brought audiences flocking to see him.

1. A. Phoenix, ‘Francis Bacon & The Law In His Early Shakespeare Plays Reflected In His Life & Acknowledged Writings’, (2021), pp. 19-23.

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 David Garrick as Richard III

[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

In the spring of 1742 Garrick also performed the role of Lear in Nahum Tate’s adaptation of King Lear, the great Shakespeare tragedy which serves as a dramatic embodiment of Bacon’s Doctrine of Negotiations condensed into the small compass of his tragedy, whose central theme is the ingratitude of humankind and its inability to recognise love.

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David Garrick as King Lear

[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

He continued at Goodman’s Fields until the end of May 1742 before accepting an invitation to spend a summer season at the Smock Alley playhouse in Dublin. The capital of the Emerald Isle saw performances of Richard III and King Lear and Garrick also added two new roles: Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist in which Jonson alludes to the first Rosicrucian manifesto the Fama Fraternitatis (then not published),1 and the title role in Hamlet which tells the tale of its author, a disinherited royal prince Francis Tudor Bacon, in the shape of Hamlet who is denied his rightful kingship by his mother Queen Elizabeth and the exhaustion and death of the royal Tudor dynasty.2 Some of his success in Dublin could be attributed to John Boyle, fifth Earl of Cork (1707-1762) who wrote letters to noblemen and gentlemen recommending Garrick.3

1. A. Phoenix, ‘Francis Bacon his Rosicrucian Brotherhood and Literary Mask William Shakspere’, (2023), pp. 1-23, at p. 6. See also A. Phoenix, ‘Francis Bacon and his Hidden Obscured Relationship with his Rosicrucian Brother Ben Jonson Editor and Key Contributor to the Shakespeare First Folio who during the period of its printing was residing with Bacon at Gorhambury’, (2023), pp. 1-48.

2. A. Phoenix, ‘Francis Bacon and his earliest Shakespeare play Hamlet A Tudor Family Tragedy’, (2021), pp. 1-109.

3. Alan Kendall, David Garrick: A Biography (London: Harrap, 1974), p. 26.

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David Garrick as Hamlet and as Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist

[Eric Roberts]

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/garrick-in-the-character-of-richard-iii

 

Edited September 1, 2025 by Eric Roberts

[Eric Roberts]

 

Request for advice

 

Should this image go in or be left out?

 

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Gagwilde_family

Heavily manipulated Paul van Somer.

What's your opinion - good, bad or ugly?

 

 

[Light-of-Truth]

26 minutes ago, Eric Roberts said:

 

Request for advice

 

Should this image go in or be left out?

 

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Gagwilde_family

Heavily manipulated Paul van Somer.

What's your opinion - good, bad or ugly?

 

 

The collection you are doing currently to me seems more a museum or scholarly masterpiece.

Modern digital Baconian art opens a can of worms that could be overwhelming to what you have already put together maybe. LOL

 

[A Phoenix]

As long as they're respectful to FB which this one seems to be, modern digital art and cartoon depictions would appear to be of great interest and value and in some ways makes FB's legacy more relevant to a contemporary audience.

[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

In 1747 Charles Fleetwood’s theatre patent expired and his share was purchased by the actor James Lacy (1696-1774) with whom Garrick entered into partnership, marking the beginning of three decades of his management of Drury Lane Theatre, home to his great Shakespearean performances. This was the second theatre at Drury Lane with the first theatre built on the site at the behest of one of Bacon’s relatives the dramatist and theatre manager Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) in the early 1660s. Bacon’s aunt Lady Katherine Cooke Killigrew, younger sister of Lady Anne Cooke Bacon, married the diplomat Sir Henry Killigrew (c.1528-1603), who lived at Hanworth in Middlesex. The dramatist and theatre manager Thomas Killigrew was the son of Sir Robert Killigrew of Hanworth (1580-1663) and his wife Mary, the daughter of Henry Woodhouse and his wife Anne Bacon, the elder half-sister of Lord Bacon.1

1.  Robert Tittler, Nicholas Bacon: The Making of a Tudor Statesman (Ohio University Press, 1976), pp. 153-60.

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[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

The success of the Drury Lane Theatre provided Garrick with the opportunity to purchase a palatial estate which he named Garrick’s Villa that he bought at Hampton in 1754. He also celebrated his worship of Shakespeare by building a Temple to Shakespeare on the riverside at Hampton to house his collection of Shakespearean memorabilia. His collaborator in furnishing the Temple to Shakespeare was the renowned painter & engraver and high-ranking Freemason William Hogarth (1697-1764):

 Hogarth was an active Freemason, and not only served as grand steward of the Grand Lodge of England in 1735, but designed the jewel of the Grand Stewards Lodge that is still used today. He is shown on the records of the grand stewards as having been a member of the lodge at the “Bear and Harrow,” Butchers’ Row in 1730, and at the “Hand and Appletree,” Little Great Queen St. in 1725. In 1729 he secretly married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Thornhill, a painter under whom he studied. Thornhill became senior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of England in 1828 [sic: 1728]. Hogarth painted his father-in-law’s portrait in Masonic attire as grand officer…The painting Sleeping Congregation (1736) represents Dr Desaguliers, grand master in 1720, preaching to a congregation. Among the sleepers are a number of grand lodge officers and Masonic notables whom Hogarth knew well through his attendance at the quarterly sessions of grand lodge, and in the dozen London lodges. The Mystery of Masonry Brought to Light by the Gormogons (1742), shows Dr James Anderson and the Duke of Wharton grand master in 1722-23…He also made an engraving of Martin Folkes, deputy grand master of the grand lodge in 1724.¹

1. William R. Denslowe, 10,000 Famous Freemasons (Transactions of the Missouri Lodge of Research, 1958), II, p. 241.

 See:

 W. Bro. Yasher Beresiner, ‘William Hogarth The Man, The Artist and His Masonic Circle’, Masonic Papers

 https://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/beresiner11.html

 ‘William Hogarth: An Interpretation of one of his Masonic Engravings’, (2009), Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library Blog

https://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2009/11/william-hogarth-masonic-influence-on-tories-in-new-england.html

 William Hogarth, United Grand Lodge of England

 https://www.ugle.org.uk/discover-freemasonry/famous-freemasons/william-hogarth

 

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[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

The Garrick Villa is located on Hampton Court Road in Richmond upon Thames. Following its purchase by Garrick in 1754 several alterations were made to it by architect and Freemason Robert Adam (1728-1792). Hogarth Way named after his friend and high-ranking Freemason William Hogarth runs alongside its gardens.1

In honour of his hero on the riverside part of the grounds at the west end of the lawn Garrick erected his Temple to Shakespeare in 1756. The Temple is built in the Palladian style introduced into England by the Grand Master of England Inigo Jones (1573-1652),² the designer of the Baconian-Rosicrucian masques produced in the early part of the seventeenth century. The name of its architect is not recorded it is however generally credited to the architect and Freemason Robert Adams. It is an octagonal structure built of brick with a single east-facing entrance with a dome and portico supported by Ionic Pillars. The Temple to Shakespeare is a Freemasonic Temple. In Freemasonry, Ionic Pillars represent wisdom, Doric Pillars represent strength and Corinthian Pillars represent beauty. In the Entered Apprentice Degree, the candidate learns of Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty. Followed in the Fellowcraft Degree with specific references to the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Pillars and in the Master Mason Degree the Three Grand Pillars support the Institution and Temple of Freemasonry. Founded upon the Temple of Solomon the centrepiece of Bacon’s New Atlantis (Land of the Rosicrucians) governed by his Rosicrucian Brothers invisibly working on behalf of humankind, with Solomon’s Temple, incorporated as the founding legend of its outer body, the Freemasonry Brotherhood.

1. John Sheaf & Ken Howe, Hampton and Teddington Past (London: Historical Publications, 1995), pp. 55-56.

 See:

 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000805?section=official-list-entry

 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1193477?section=official-list-entry

 2.James Anderson, The New Book Of Constitutions Of The Antient and Honourable Fraternity Of Free and Accepted Masons. Containing Their History, Charges, Regulations, &c. Collected and Digested By Order of the Grand Lodge from their old Records, faithful Traditions and Lodge-Books, For the Use of the Lodges (London: printed for Brothers Caesar Ward and Richard Chandler, 1738), pp. 98-101.

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[Eric Roberts]

16 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

The success of the Drury Lane Theatre provided Garrick with the opportunity to purchase a palatial estate which he named Garrick’s Villa that he bought at Hampton in 1754. He also celebrated his worship of Shakespeare by building a Temple to Shakespeare on the riverside at Hampton to house his collection of Shakespearean memorabilia. His collaborator in furnishing the Temple to Shakespeare was the renowned painter & engraver and high-ranking Freemason William Hogarth (1697-1764):

 Hogarth was an active Freemason, and not only served as grand steward of the Grand Lodge of England in 1735, but designed the jewel of the Grand Stewards Lodge that is still used today. He is shown on the records of the grand stewards as having been a member of the lodge at the “Bear and Harrow,” Butchers’ Row in 1730, and at the “Hand and Appletree,” Little Great Queen St. in 1725. In 1729 he secretly married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Thornhill, a painter under whom he studied. Thornhill became senior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of England in 1828 [sic: 1728]. Hogarth painted his father-in-law’s portrait in Masonic attire as grand officer…The painting Sleeping Congregation (1736) represents Dr Desaguliers, grand master in 1720, preaching to a congregation. Among the sleepers are a number of grand lodge officers and Masonic notables whom Hogarth knew well through his attendance at the quarterly sessions of grand lodge, and in the dozen London lodges. The Mystery of Masonry Brought to Light by the Gormogons (1742), shows Dr James Anderson and the Duke of Wharton grand master in 1722-23…He also made an engraving of Martin Folkes, deputy grand master of the grand lodge in 1724.¹

1. William R. Denslowe, 10,000 Famous Freemasons (Transactions of the Missouri Lodge of Research, 1958), II, p. 241.

 See:

 W. Bro. Yasher Beresiner, ‘William Hogarth The Man, The Artist and His Masonic Circle’, Masonic Papers

 https://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/beresiner11.html

 ‘William Hogarth: An Interpretation of one of his Masonic Engravings’, (2009), Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library Blog

https://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2009/11/william-hogarth-masonic-influence-on-tories-in-new-england.html

 William Hogarth, United Grand Lodge of England

 https://www.ugle.org.uk/discover-freemasonry/famous-freemasons/william-hogarth

 

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Who knew Hogarth was a Freemason?

I did know Martin Folkes was.

Recently learned that he owned

the Royal Society's portrait of F.B.

before leaving it to the Society in 1754.

 

 

 

Edited September 3, 2025 by Eric Roberts

[Eric Roberts]

12 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

The collection you are doing currently to me seems more a museum or scholarly masterpiece.

Modern digital Baconian art opens a can of worms that could be overwhelming to what you have already put together maybe. LOL

 

 

"Scholarly masterpieces" are best left to scholars. What you are describing is on another level, one that I have almost no access to - contacts, access to materials, reputation - I have none of that. Nor do I have the academic skills to go with it. It just happens that I'm the only one who's mad enough to do it.

 

 

[Eric Roberts]

6 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

As long as they're respectful to FB which this one seems to be, modern digital art and cartoon depictions would appear to be of great interest and value and in some ways makes FB's legacy more relevant to a contemporary audience.

Thanks A.P. As well as being a useful reference work for anyone who wants to check up on the background of a particular portrait of FB, the idea was to show both high and low art examples, hence the section on ephemera. So I'm inclined to agree with you. The other reason why "the catalogue" isn't museum-friendly is because in the highly specialised field of Baconian portraiture, one must chose between the current establishment view (thanks to Roy Strong) that Paul van Somer did NOT paint the two Gorhambury portraits and that they date from post-1660, and the traditional view that the two Gorhambury portraits are from the studio of van Somer and date from 1618. 

I have yet to find Strong's justification for his dogmatic theories concerning Bacon's portraits. You would swear he has a contempt for the work of van Somer. Anyway, it is a real mess, intellectually and historically speaking. There will have to be an appendix that states these problems as clearly as possible. In challenging the orthodoxy I hope to be proven wrong. That would be better than this fog of confusion. 

[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

The east-facing entrance is where the Grand Master sits and where the Lodge Room is located. It symbolises the rising sun and the Light that illuminates the divine path to enlightenment and understanding. The legendary King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem featured a prominent east-facing entrance illuminating its most sacred space the Sanctum Sanctorum or Holy of Holies:

 Ye shall understand (my dear friends) that amongst the excellent acts of that king, one above all hath the pre-eminence. It was the erection and institution of an Order or Society we call Salomon’s House; the noblest foundation (as we think) that was ever upon this earth; and the lanthorn of this kingdom.¹

^1.  Spedding, Works, III, p. 145.

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Illustration of King Solomon's Temple

[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

The Temple to Shakespeare erected by Garrick is a Rosicrucian-Freemasonic Temple erected to Bacon-Shakespeare, Founding Father and the Grand Master of the Rosicrucian-Freemasonry Brotherhood. Which was known to the invisible powers of the United Grand Lodge of England as cryptically revealed in the first and second Book of Constitutions, by some of its Grand Masters and other high-ranking Freemasons, inward friends of the greatest Shakespeare actor of his era.  

https://www.fbrt.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2020/06/Magnificence_of_Great_Instauration.pdf

 

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[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

His close friend and Freemason Horace Walpole (1717-1797),¹ celebrated writer and patron of the arts, who regularly visited Garrick at his Villa, wrote to George Montagu on 14 October 1756:

John and I are just going to Garrick’s [at Hampton] with a grove of cypresses in our hands, like Kentish men at the conquest. He has built a temple to his master Shakespeare, and I am going to adorn the outside, since his modesty would not let me decorate it within, as I proposed, with these mottoes:

      Quod spiro et placeo, si placeo, tuum est. 

That I spirit have and nature,

           That sense breathes in ev’ry feature

That I please, if please I do,-

     Shakespeare,-all I owe to you.²

 

The ‘mottoes’ very carefully printed above incorporate a series of Baconian ciphers conveying a secret concealed message. In his article ‘Baconian-Rosicrucian Ciphers: An introduction to the cryptography used by Francis Bacon and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic fraternity’, Dawkins points out how the Triple Tau (T.T.T.) links to Bacon-Shakespeare and The Temple of Solomon. The Triple Tau is the symbol of the Royal Arch of Freemasonry. The two letters T. T. represent the number Thirty-Three: 33 Bacon in simple cipher and the 33^rd Degree of Freemasonry.³ As seen above the first two lines in the verse begin with a Double Tau (T.T.) representing Thirty-Three Bacon in simple cipher and the highest 33^rd Degree of Freemasonry followed by a Triple  Tau (T.T.T.) in its first three lines symbolising the Temple of Solomon the institution in Bacon’s New Atlantis governed by his Rosicrucian Brothers invisibly working on behalf of humankind, with Solomon’s Temple, incorporated as the founding legend of its outer body, the Freemasonry Brotherhood. The ‘mottoes’ including the heading ‘Quod spiro et placeo, si placeo, tuum est’ comprise a total of 33 words: 33 Bacon in simple cipher addressed to his pseudonym Shakespeare, conveying the concealed message Francis Bacon, Founder of the Rosicrucian-Freemasonry Brotherhood, is Shakespeare.

1. A Report on the Lecture presented at the Temple of Athene Lodge No 9541 held at Harrow Masonic Centre on Wednesday 5^th June 2024 given by W. Bro DERRICK LYONS PPrJGD (Herts) LGR, Middlesex Freemasonry,

 https://middlesexfreemasons.org.uk/laurence-dermott/

2. Peter Cunningham, ed., The Letters Of Horace Walpole, Earl Of Orford (London: Richard Bentley, 1857), III, p. 36.

3. Peter Dawkins, ‘Baconian-Rosicrucian Ciphers: An introduction to the cryptography used by Francis Bacon and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic fraternity’ (Francis Bacon Research Trust),

pp. 1-21.

https://www.fbrt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Baconian-Rosicrucian_Ciphers.pdf

 

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Horace Walpole

[Eric Roberts]

 

 

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/09/

 

[Allisnum2er]

7 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

ohn and I are just going to Garrick’s [at Hampton] with a grove of cypresses in our hands, like Kentish men at the conquest. He has built a temple to his master Shakespeare, and I am going to adorn the outside, since his modesty would not let me decorate it within, as I proposed, with these mottoes:

      Quod spiro et placeo, si placeo, tuum est. 

That I spirit have and nature,

           That sense breathes in ev’ry feature

That I please, if please I do,-

     Shakspeare,-all I owe to you.²

Hi A.P.

This is another great finding ! ❤️

Here are some thoughts.

If we count 33 letters all way long from 'Quod' to 'you', we come across :

 - the first T of the first 'That'

- then the letter b of 'breathes'

- and finally, the letter f of 'if'

'b.f.' could represent the initials of Bacon Francis.

Moreover, I noticed that there were the words 'breathes' and 'feature' providing the letter 'f' and 'b' which were closer to each other.

Here is something very interesting that I found by placing the 'mottoes' in a grid, excluding periods and commas but keeping the apostrophe in 'ev'ry' and the two dashes surrounding 'Shakspeare' ...

 

[Allisnum2er]

Some additional thoughts (playing with the same ideas) ...

Interestingly, if we isolate 'THATISPIRITHAVE'  then the letter 'I' (now in the beginning of the last line) allows to also have FRANCIS in acrostic.

Moreover, the word 'Plan' appears vertically.

And on the 2nd column we can read ARES'WOES.

Ares is 'the armipotent Mars, of lances the Almighty.'

Fun fact : if we count 33 characters all way long from 'NATURE' to 'AND' at the 'end' we obtain ... 'APE'.

[A Phoenix]

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

For the Rosicrucian Freemasonic Temple to Bacon-Shakespeare Garrick commissioned a statue of his idol from the French Huguenot sculptor and Freemason Louis Francios Roubiliac (1702-1762). He was a member of the White Bear Masonic Lodge in London in 1730 that met in King Street, Golden Square, Soho.1 As no doubt Garrick was aware Roubiliac also created the bust of Bacon in the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1751.² The statue of the Shakespeare was supposedly based on the Chandos portrait whereas it has been suggested that it is more likely a portrait Garrick in the role of Shakespeare. Garrick was not satisfied with the head of the statue and Roubiliac replaced it with one carved from another piece of marble.3 The Roubiliac Shakespeare statue is a disguised portrait of Francis Bacon.

During Garrick’s lifetime the statue was displayed in the Temple. Following his death it was given to the British Museum.4 A copy of the statue provided by the British Library now stands in place of the original at Garrick’s Bacon-Shakespeare Rosicrucian-Freemasonic Temple.

1. Tessa Murdoch, ‘The business practice of Louis François Roubiliac, 1752–62’, Sculpture Journal, 30 (2021), pp. 285-301 and Philip Ward-Jackson, ‘Louis-François Roubiliac (1702–1762)’, Public Statues and Sculpture Association, October 2023

https://pssauk.org/public-sculpture-of-britain/biography/roubiliac-louis-francois/

2. Katharine A. Esdaile, Roubiliac’s Work at Trinity College Cambridge (Cambridge University Press, 1924), pp. 10-11.

3. Christian Deelman, The Great Shakespeare Jubilee (London: Michael Joseph, 1964), pp. 98-99.

4. For Garrick’s Villa, The Temple to Shakespeare and the Statue of Shakespeare by Roubiliac I have benefitted from the following:

 Gerald Heath, ‘Garrick’s Villa and Temple to Shakespeare’, Local History Notes, London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames

 https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/6314/local_history_garricks_villa.pdf

‘Fire destroys Garrick’s Villa’, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare Newsletter, 2 (2009), pp. 1-4

https://web.archive.org/web/20110929200726/http://www.garrickstemple.org.uk/pdf/Temple_Newsletter_Spring_2009.pdf

The Twickenham Museum, ‘Garrick’s Temple A shrine to Shakespeare’

 https://twickenham-museum.org.uk/places/hampton/garricks-temple/

 Garrick’s Temple A shrine to Shakespeare

 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1065456?section=official-list-entry

Ode to the Bard

https://www.deccanherald.com/content/96128/ode-bard.html

 Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrick%27s_Temple_to_Shakespeare

Synopsis: https://www.academia.edu/130303403/Synopsis_for_Francis_Bacon_The_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood_and_the_Secret_Authorship_of_the_Shakespeare_Works

See the full length work here: https://www.academia.edu/130303599/Francis_Bacon_The_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood_and_the_Secret_Authorship_of_the_Shakespeare_Works 

Interior of Garrick’s Temple with a replica of Roubiliac’s Statue of Shakespeare

Bust of Bacon by Roubiliac at the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

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The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

For the Great Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 Garrick wished to provide Stratford with a statue of Shakespeare but he did not want to part with his Roubiliac so he decided upon an alternative modelled after the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic Bacon-Shakespeare statues at Westminster Abbey and Wilton House (see the chapters above):

Twenty-four years after finishing the Westminster Abbey statue, Scheemaker, the sculptor, had executed a revised and improved version of it for Lord Pembroke, to be housed at Wilton. With this statue in mind, Garrick called in a sculptor named John Cheere, whose claims for the task were twofold. Sir Henry Cheere, who had been a pupil of Scheemaker…Cheere was therefore chosen to provide a leaden copy of the Wilton statue.¹

1. Christian Deelman, The Great Shakespeare Jubilee (London: Michael Joseph, 1964), pp. 69-70.

Synopsis: https://www.academia.edu/130303403/Synopsis_for_Francis_Bacon_The_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood_and_the_Secret_Authorship_of_the_Shakespeare_Works

See the full length work here: https://www.academia.edu/130303599/Francis_Bacon_The_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood_and_the_Secret_Authorship_of_the_Shakespeare_Works 

The painting by Gainsborough of Garrick with a Bust of Shakespeare

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The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

In 1767 the Stratford Council decided to rebuild the Town Hall, which involved William Hunt the Town Clerk, obtaining permission from Charles Sackville, second Duke of Dorset (1711-1769), High Steward of Stratford and its major landowner, for it to extend on to a piece of land behind the old Town Hall.¹ Charles Sackville, second Duke of Dorset was the eldest son of Lionel Cranfield Sackville first Duke of Dorset (1688-1765). His younger brother Lord George Sackville (1716-1785) was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in 1751.2 

The second Duke of Dorset is credited with establishing the first Freemasonic Lodge in Italy at Florence during his Grand Tour in 1733. The Lodge in Florence struck a Medal in his honour that year ‘On the obverse is a classical raised bust of Sackville naming him ‘magister’ (master) and on the reverse sits a figure of Harpocrates, the Greek god of secrecy, carrying a horn of plenty with the inscription ‘Ab Origine’ (to the founders).’³

1. Christian Deelman, The Great Shakespeare Jubilee (London: Michael Joseph, 1964), pp. 56-58.

2. William R. Denslowe, 10,000 Famous Freemasons (Transactions of the Missouri Lodge of Research, 1958), IV, p. 85.

3. Neil Grant Macleod, ‘First Masonic Jewels’, Cross Keys, (February 2021), p. 14.

Synopsis: https://www.academia.edu/130303403/Synopsis_for_Francis_Bacon_The_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood_and_the_Secret_Authorship_of_the_Shakespeare_Works

See the full length work here: https://www.academia.edu/130303599/Francis_Bacon_The_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood_and_the_Secret_Authorship_of_the_Shakespeare_Works 

Charles Sackville and George Sackville