John Auldjo

His brother, Thomas Richardson Auldjo (1808–1837), married Anna, elder daughter of William McGillivray and a niece of both John MacDonald of Garth and General Sir Archibald Campbell.

In 1822, Auldjo entered Trinity College, Cambridge where he met Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and subsequently secured a place at Lincoln's Inn.

At the summit he shared a bottle of wine with the guides and then sat down to write a short letter (in pencil since ink didn't flow at that altitude) to his sister-in-law Anna, implying to her that his penance had been redeemed.

In 1837 when Auldjo had finally returned from Naples, McGillivray appointed him his Deputy as Grand Master of Upper Canada, and as such in the summer of that year he visited and toured to raise the morale of the local membership.

In 1840 Auldjo dealt with Simon McGillivray's executry and was briefly again involved with Freemasonry.Thereafter he fades into relative obscurity until the late 1850s when Anna and her two daughters all died and the townhouse and its contents were sold.

He is recorded as communicating during this period with his lawyer Sir George Airey Fitzpatrick regarding property in Canada made over to his niece Madeleine Auldjo, by then deceased.

In Geneva he became acquainted with James Fazy, the leading local politician of the day, also with his neighbour Charles, 2nd Duke of Brunswick, who was exiled from Paris and London following the Franco-Prussian war.