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 * Did you know
 * ...that the Australian solicitor and politician, Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott was a Freemason, and the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT?
 * ...that in 1899, Sir Samuel Gillott (pictured) lost the mayorship of Melbourne by one vote?
 * ...that the former head of the Royal Australian Navy, George Francis Hyde, was the first Australian naval officer to become an honorary aide-de-camp to King George V?
 * ... that the Salvation Army officer, Sir Arthur McIlveen, was known for playing a phonograph in the battlefields of World War II, and was the unofficial padre to many brigades?
 * ...that the former Australian Supreme Court justice and barrister, Sir John Vincent Barry, qualified as a lawyer after graduating from an articled clerk course?
 * ... that Sir John Ramsay was the first Australian surgeon to apply heart massage to revive a dead man?