Richard Eve

He set up his own small solicitor's office in Aldershot at the time the British Army was rapidly expanding its presence in the area.

[8] A history of the Lodge states that it "had its origin in the wish of many admirers of Richard Eve to perpetuate his name as a worthy citizen of London and as a sterling worker in the Masonic cause.

"[2] Richard Eve was taken ill in London where he had gone for the laying of a foundation stone for the Boys’ School, and died at 11 Nottingham Place in Marylebone of a seizure a few days later on 7 July 1900.

He was buried in Aldershot Cemetery where a large granite memorial of the figure of Charity and a child adorns his grave.

“Bro Eve had found in life manifold points of sympathetic contact with his fellows and on this day his friends rose up from all parts of England to pay a last tribute of respect to his memory...

There were about 100 of them, all wearing the customary white gloves and carrying their sprigs of acacia.”[12] A 29 foot tall monumental drinking fountain to Eve's memory was unveiled in Brinton Park in Kidderminster in 1902.