Social Victorians/People/William Robert Woodman

Also Known As

 * William Robert Woodman
 * Golden Dawn motto: Vincit Omnia Veritas (V.O.V.) (Alastor) — "Truth Rules All" (Gale 1828)
 * Golden Dawn motto: Magna Est Veritas Et Praelavebit (M.E.V.E.P. or M.E.V.) (Alastor) — "Great is the truth, and it shall prevail"

Demographics

 * Nationality:

Family

 * William Robert Woodman (1828 – 20 December 1891)

Acquaintances

 * Fred Hockley? (King 89 42)

Friends

 * Wynn Westcott

Organizations

 * Freemason, Sword Bearer in the United Grand Lodge of England
 * Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia
 * The Golden Dawn, honorary in the Inner Order but died at the end of 1891, before it was established.

Timeline
1867 October 31, Woodman was admitted to the Rosicrucian Society (Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia) (Gale 1828, Wikipedia)

1868 February, Woodman was appointed Secretary General of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.

1878, Woodman was "Supreme Magus" of the the Rosicrucian Society (Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia?) (Gale 1828).

1871, Woodman moved from "the Stoke Newington area of north London," where he "practiced medicine," to Exeter (Gale 1828).

1876, Woodman was appointed Junior Substitute Magus in the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.

1877, Woodman was appointed Senior Substitute Magus in the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.

1877?, Woodman moved from Exeter back to London (six years after having moved to Exeter) (Gale 1828).

1878 April, Woodman appointed Supreme Magus of the Socieatas Rosicruciana in Anglia, when Robert Little died.

1887, Woodman was granted the honorary grade of Exempt Adept of the Isis-Urania Temple of the Golden Dawn.

1888 February 12, "Of uncertain parentage, and with an unknown date of conception, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn came into being in the material world on 12 February 1888 when the three founding Chiefs of the Isis-Urania Temple -- Westcott, Woodman, and Mathers -- signed their pledges of fidelity" (Gilbert 86 1).

December 1890, Woodman died. According to Theresa J. O'Connell, he had "held the office of Imperator" "from the first opening of Isis Urania (Gilbert 86 12).

Questions and Notes

 * 1) Woodman "was a student of Kabala, Egyptian antiquities, Gnosticism and Platonism" (Gale 1828).