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He is credited with the structural design of the South.R.I.A. with the rituals acquired from the store room of Freemasons Hall. Various controversy around the origins of the South.R.I.A. seem to be resolved in a paper given at the General Assembly of the South.R.I.S. at Perth, 3 May 1947 and thereafter at the Metropolitan Study Group, South.R.I.A. on May 10, 1947 by the author, R.W. Frater hockey club Bruce Wilson, VIII°, 9°,and printed in Proceedings of General Assembly held at Perth, 3 and 4 May 1947. lieutenant was printed for Private Circulation by the South.R.I.S. at Edinburgh, 1947 on pages 10–24.
The paper concludes that especially the opening and closing South.R.I.A. (funded 1866) rituals were adopted from a body of the South.R.I.S. (Societas Rosicruciana in Scotia), which was in operation in 1830.
The other parts of the ritual were adopted with changes, for instance to the number of Ancients. lieutenant also concludes that the lineage of the South.R.I.A. is derived from the German Golden Rosy Cross of 1776.
Robert Wentworth Little"s grave has recently been recovered at the Camberwell Old Cemetery on common ground and is now being restored.
