Social Victorians/Golden Dawn/Horus Temple

Horus Temple, in Bradford

Logistics

• Of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
• # 5, in Bradford, Yorkshire
• Chartered in 1888

Leaders

1900 October 6 Officers

• Imperator, T. H. Pattinson
• Praemonstrator, B. E. J. Edwards
• Sub Praemonstrator, J. K. Gardner
• Cancellarius, J. L. Atherton

Members' Initiation Dates

Information about the number and gender of members each year between 1888 and 1896 is from Howe (49). There were 57 people initiated into the Horus Temple, 47 of them men and 10 women.

1888 (11 new members, all men)

1. J. L. Atherton, May 1888
2. Joseph Clayton, May 1888
3. Francis Harrison, May 1888
4. Thomas W. Wilson, May 1888
5. William Lambert, September 1888
6. William Williams, September 1888
7. John Douglas, November 1888
8. B. E. J. Edwards, November 1888
9. Carlo Faro, November 1888
10. Oliver Firth, November 1888
11. Walter Firth, November 1888

1889 (2 new members, 1 man and 1 woman)

1. Ed Dunn, September 1889
2. Lewis de Jastryebwski, September 1889

1890 (8 new members, all men)

1. Eliza Pattinson, May 1890
2. Kate Broomhead, June 1890
3. Florence Firth (at that time Spink), September 1890
4. Edward Mackey, September 1890

1891 (12 new members, 7 men and 5 women)

1. William Grason, June 1891
2. Joe Dunckley, July 1891
3. J. K. Gardner, July 1891
4. John Hill, July 1891
5. G. D. Jefferson, July 1891
6. Francis Strickland, July 1891
7. Minnie Langridge, September 1891
8. Luther Hill, 19 November 1891

1892 (9 new members, all men, according to Howe)

1. Robert Nisbet, January 1892
2. Thomas Duncan, 20 March 1892 (Küntz 186)
3. Mrs. Edwards, 20 March 1892 (Küntz 187)
4. Emily Douglas, 2 May 1892 (Küntz 186)
5. Charles Grason, May 1892
6. Robert Steele, May 1892
7. Catharine Spink, 2 May 1892
8. James Callic, September 1892
9. Agnes Nisbet, September 1892
10. Rachel Taylor, September 1892
11. Gertrude Spink, November 1892

1893 (3 new members, 2 men and 1 woman)

1. Alfred Scanlan, 1893
2. Fanny Clayton, 19 March 1893
3. William Ranstead, 19 March 1893
4. Robert Sandham, 19 March 1893

1894 (6 new members, all men)

1. James Barraclough, March 1894
2. Arthur Wilson, July 1894
3. Herbert Crooke, September 1894
4. William Hopgood, September 1894

1895 (3 new members, all women)

1. Amy Hill, 2 February 1895
2. Emmeline Clark, 22 September 1895
3. Eliza Craven, 22 September 1895
4. Charles Richardson, 22 September 1895

1896 (3 new members, all men)

1. George Henderson, 2 February 1896
2. George Martin, 20 September 1896
3. Frederick Salmon, 20 September 1896

Timeline

1888 October 9, the Horus Temple "was formally consecrated by Mathers at a ceremony held at the Alexandra Hotel" (Howe 54). It was founded by T. H. Pattinson (Küntz 206).

Between ???, the time they joined the Golden Dawn, and 1900, the members of the Horus Temple belonged to a Dawn subgroup that practiced alchemy led by A. W. Ayton.

1897 March, Equinox Ceremony celebrated, the first of only two meetings in 1897 (Howe 189).

1897 September, Equinox Ceremony celebrated, the second of only two meetings in 1897 (Howe 189).

1897 September 26, J. L. Atherton was Cancellarius of the Horus Temple; he wrote Gardner (assuming F. L. Gardner) that he had been unanimously elected to membership in the Horus Temple (Howe 189).

1900 October 6, officers:

• Imperator, T. H. Pattinson
• Praemonstrator, B. E. J. Edwards
• Sub Praemonstrator, J. K. Gardner
• Cancellarius, J. L. Atherton

Questions and Notes

1. At some point, A. W. Ayton was a member of the Horus Temple (Küntz 177)? After Anne died in 1898?

Bibliography

• Howe
• Küntz