Social Victorians/Golden Dawn/Isis-Urania Temple

Isis-Urania Temple, in London

Logistics

• Of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
• in London
• Chartered in 1888

Members' Initiation Dates

Information about the number and gender of members each year between 1888 and 1896 is from Howe (49). There were 189 people initiated into the Isis-Urania Temple between 1888 and 1896, 105 men and 84 women.

1888 (32 new members, 23 men and 9 women)

1. MacGregor Mathers — 12 February 1888
2. Wynn Westcott — 12 February 1888
3. William Woodman — 12 February 1888
4. Mina Bergson (later Moina Mathers), March 1888
5. John Collinson, March 1888
6. William Lemon, March 1888
7. Alexandrina MacKenzie, March 1888
8. T. H. Pattinson, March 1888
9. Eugene Street, March 1888
10. Theresa J. O'Connell, 14 March 1888
11. John Brettell, April 1888
12. T. W. Lemon, April 1888
13. E. Heywood Purkis, April 1888
14. Edward Macbean, May 1888
15. Thomas Coffin, June 1888
16. Robert Roy, June 1888
17. Anne Ayton, July 1888
18. W. A. Ayton, July 1888
19. Dora de Blaquiere, July 1888
20. Emily Burnett, July? 1888
21. Webster Glynes, July 1888
22. T. Travers Sherlock, August 1888
23. J. Hermann Simonsen, August 1888
24. Eugene Thiellay, August 1888
25. Andrew Neilson, 9 August 1888
26. Frank Ellis, September 1888
27. William Greenhough, 20 September 1888
28. Tomas Beasley, October 1888
29. George Dickson, October 1888
30. Nelson Prower, October 1888
31. Isabella de Steiger, October 1888
32. Charles Malden, November 1888
33. Anna Bremont, 13 November 1888
34. Constance Wilde, 13 November 1888
35. John Hastie, December 1888

1889 (14 new members, 10 men and 4 women)

1. Frank Page, January 1889
2. William Graham, 8 January 1889
3. W. Goold, March 1889
4. Albertina Herbert, September 1889
5. Violet Tweedale (signed as Violet Chambers), September 1889
6. Thomas Taylor, September 1889
7. Frederick Johnson, October 1889
8. Richard Nunn, October 1889
9. Catherine Passingham, October 1889
10. John Willmot, October 1889
11. Franz Bubna, December 1889
12. Isabella Duncan, December 1889
13. Alice Gordon, December 1889
14. Charles Pearce, December 1889
15. Alfred Peart, December 1889
16. George Williams, December 1889

1890 (14 new members, 3 men and 11 women)

1. Annie Horniman, January 1890
2. Mahomet Eusouf, March 1890
3. William Coombs, June 1890
4. William Crookes, June 1890
5. Alphonse Walleen, June 1890
6. Annie Wolfe, June 1890
7. Florence Farr, July 1890
8. Alfred Pearce, July 1890
9. Annie Proctor, July 1890
10. John Brodie-Innes, August 1890
11. Robert Masters Theobald, August 1890
12. Percy Bullock, September 1890
13. Alfred Monk, September 1890
14. Ralph Sneyd, December 1890

1891 (23 new members, 5 men and 18 women)

1. Arthur Edward Waite, January 1891
2. Alexander Carden, March 1891
3. Anne Carden, March 1891
4. Oswald Murray, March 1891
5. Helen Rand, March 1891
6. Emily Bates, May 1891
7. Augustus Cooper, May 1891
8. Florence Kennedy, May 1891
9. Cecilia Macrae, May 1891
10. Louisa Ida Macrae, May 1891
11. Agnes Pallandt, May 1891
12. Lina Hamilton, June 1891
13. Henry Wright, July 1891
14. Gabrielle Borthwick, 8 July 1891
15. Sidney Coryn, 22 September 1891
16. Anna Davies, 22 September 1891
17. Grace Aurelia Murray, 22 September 1891
18. W. M. Farquhar, October 1891
19. Maria Jane Burnley Scott, October 1891
20. Maud Gonne, November 1891
21. Jessie Horne, November 1891
22. James Webber Smith, 2 December 1891
23. Rose Swain, 2 December 1891
24. Ada Waite, 2 December 1891

1892 (22 new members, 16 men and 6 women)

1. Anna Blackwell, January 1892
2. Joseph O'Reilly, January 1892
3. John Rand, February 1892
4. John Todhunter, February 1892
5. Henrietta M. Paget, 22 March 1892
6. Thomas Smith, 22 March 1892
7. Wilfred Praeger, 28 May 1892
8. Selim Mosalli, 22 April 1892
9. Francis Wright, 22 April 1892
10. Arthur Molesworth, 28 May 1892
11. Fearon Ranking, June 1892
12. Pamela Carden (later Bullock), 20 June 1892
13. Marian Caldecott, September 1892
14. A. J. Hailey, November 1892
15. Harriett Lammin, November 1892
16. A. D. Macmillan, November 1892
17. Charles Parr, 27 November 1892
18. Henry Pullen Burry, 27 November 1892
19. W. A. Dunn, December 1892
20. Samuel Wilson, December 1892

1893 (14 new members, 6 men and 8 women)

1. Lilian Blyth, February 1893
2. Frances Brodie-Innes, February 1893
3. Thomas Williams, February 1893
4. Marceline Hennequin, March 1893
5. Dorothea Hunter, March 1893
6. H. C. Morris, March 1893
7. Helen Fulham-Hughes, March 1893
8. H. C. Morris, March 1893
9. Eleanor Harbord, April 1893
10. G. M. Friend, 13 May 1893
11. J. H. Fitzgerald Molloy, 13 May 1893
12. Herbert Coryn, August 1893
13. Frederick Crow, August 1893
14. Anna Mary Babington, September 1893
15. George Pollexfen, December 1893

1894 (29 new members, 20 men and 9 women)

1. Minnie Prewett, February 1894
2. James Durand, 28 February 1894
3. Theodosia Durand, 28 February 1894
4. Mary Haweis, 28 February 1894
5. George Rowell, 28 February 1894
6. Frederick Gardner, 20 March 1894
7. Rose Pullen Burry, 20 March 1894
8. Charlotte Wright, 20 March 1894
9. Margaret Elizabeth Wright, 20 March 1894
10. Mary Brown, April 1894
11. Charles Rosher, 5 May 1894
12. Charles Weekes, 5 May 1894
13. Jean Gillison, 16 June 1894
14. Harold Lancaster, 16 June 1894
15. Henry Weltch, 16 June 1894
16. Alpheus Simmons, July 1894
17. Charles Franks, 21 July 1894
18. Charles Tuckey, 21 July 1894
19. Ethel Weltch, 21 July 1894
20. Henry M. Paget, September 1894
21. John Hugh Elliott [sic], 6 October 1894
22. George Jacob, 6 October 1894
23. Edward Boxer, 18 December 1894
24. George Minson, 18 December 1894
25. Victor Toller, 18 December 1894

1895 (22 members, 13 men and 9 women)

1. Frederick Clark, 14 January 1895
2. Louise Ffoukles, 20 March 1895
3. William Thurnam, 20 March 1895
4. W. T. Horton, 21 March 1895
5. Harriet Butler, 24 April 1895
6. Florence Maitinsky, 28 May 1895
7. Ada Waters, 28 May 1895
8. George Cope, 18 June 1895
9. Harold Levett, 18 June 1895
10. Mary Reynolds, 18 June 1895
11. George Rogers, 18 June 1895
12. Francis Freeman, 12 July 1895
13. George Jones, 12 July 1895
14. W. F. Kirby, 12 July 1895
15. Alice Simpson, 12 July 1895
16. John Slater, 12 July 1895
17. Bernard Watson, 10 August 1895
18. E. A. Hunter, 23 August 1895
19. Elizabeth Martyn, 23 September 1895
20. Amy Turner, 22 November 1895
21. Mary Briggs, 16 December 1895

1896 (19 members, 9 men and 10 women)

1. Eleanor Elliot, 17 February 1896
2. Emma Maples, 17 February 1896
3. W. T. Horton, 21 March 1896
4. Elizabeth Mills, 21 March 1896
5. William Elphick, 25 April 1896
6. Sidney Klein, 25 April 1896
7. Katherine Julia Buckman, 25 June 1896
8. Irene Lloyd, 27 August 1896
9. Frank Dodd, 11 September 1896
10. Henry Colvile, 7 November 1896
11. Zelie Colvile, 7 November 1896
12. Marion Cunningham, 7 November 1896
13. Sirrie Rowe, 7 November 1896
14. Robert Palmer Thomas, 7 November 1896
15. Vyvyan Dent, 26 November 1896
16. Caroline Rosher, 26 November 1896

1897 (11 new members, 4 men and 6 women)

1. Elaine Simpson, 18 January 1897
2. Herbert Poulter, 15 February 1897
3. Edith Beaufort, 20 March 1897
4. Ellen Gaskell, 20 March 1897
5. Laura Love, 20 March 1897
6. Frederick Ritchie, 20 March 1897
7. Mabel Minson, 28 May 1897
8. Mrs. E. M. Stewart Walker, 29 June 1897
9. Herbert Knevitt, 22 September 1897
10. James Thornwaite, 22 September 1897

1898 (8 new members, 4 men and 4 women)

1. Thomas Goldie, 22 March 1898
2. John Lacy, 22 March 1898
3. Marian Vibart, 22 March 1898
4. William Thomas, 23 September 1898
5. Fanny Beatrice Hunter, 26 November 1898
6. Aleister Crowley, 26 November 1898
7. Lizzie Morris, 26 November 1898
8. Alice Stracey, 26 November 1898

1899 (14 new members, 6 men, 7 women and 1 unknown)

1. Arthur Lovell, 27 January 1899
2. William Brooks, 20 March 1899
3. ? Law, 20 March 1899
4. Alice Walker, 29 May 1899
5. Elizabeth Walton, 29 May 1899
6. Louise Westman, 29 May 1899
7. Ada Blackden, 22 June 1899
8. Frederick Gobert, 22 June 1899
9. Eliza Morris, 22 June 1900
10. Alice Beatrice Simpson, 4 September 1899
11. Vera Kelly, 31 October 1899
12. Ronald Morris, 31 October 1899
13. W. E. H. Humphreys, 21 November 1899
14. Arthur Machen, 21 November 1899

1900 (8 new members, 3 men and 5 women)

1. Mary Gonne, 13 July 1900
2. Kathleen Pilcher, 13 July 1900
3. Ethel Thompson, 25 September 1900
4. Carl Vogt, 25 September 1900
5. Algernon Blackwood, 30 October 1900
6. Christine Cohen, 29 November 1900
7. Archibald Keppel, 29 November 1900
8. Ida Bennett, 17 December 1900

1901 (7 new members, 4 men and 3 women)

1. Jemima Warner, 22 March 1901
2. Evelyn Sheffield, 14 June 1901
3. Alexander Davidson, 2 November 1901
4. Ethel Fryer-Fortescue, 2 November 1901
5. Pamela Colman Smith, 2 November 1901

Uncertain When They Joined

1. Agnes Cathcart, became a member of Amen-Ra on 12 March 1894 (Küntz 182)

Bibliography

• Howe