George Markham Tweddell (1823 – 1903) was, among his many activities for the betterment of humanity, openly a life long member of the Loyal Cleveland Lodge of Freemasons in Stokesley. His wide ranging poetry included the book One Hundred Masonic Sonnets – made available for view here  – http://tweddellmasonicsonnets.blogspot.com/  He was intensely proud of the Craft and its principles  – in the introduction William Andrews writes –

“Brother Tweddell is sincere in his enthusiasm for the Craft. “Freemasonry” says he in his preface ” is dearer to me than any other thing I know of, because, in my conception of it, it comprises all true religion and morality ; all family, social and national duties; all genuine philanthropy, literature, science, and art ; in brief, all that can endear man to man, and make us more like the Grand Geometrician of the Universe, in whose service alone is felicity for the human race.” This is a far loftier ideal of freemasonry than we are wont to find even among Masonic enthusiasts; and yet, without going as far as the talented author of these sonnets, we readily admit that there is a vast amount of truth in it; Freemasonry is capable of making men good and noble; it could not be otherwise what it is claimed to be  – a system of morality“


His sonnets therefore outline his ideal for Freemasonry.