superintendent in the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. He is
a member of the Church of England, and has been four times elected
representative to the Provincial Synod, and in 1880 was appointed one of
the delegates from the Provincial Synod to the convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, then assembled in New
York. Mr. Clinch, for thirty-four years, has been an active member of
the Masonic fraternity. In 1866 he was appointed district grand master
by the late Earl of Zetland, and after the formation of the Grand Lodge
of New Brunswick was thrice elected grand master. He is now the
representative of the Grand Lodge of England to the Grand Lodge of New
Brunswick, and is also past commander of the Knights Templars of St.
John, and a member of the supreme council of the 33rd Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite for the Dominion of Canada. He married in 1860,
Henrietta, daughter of George W. Cleary, barrister, who died April 3rd,