A Strange Coincidence. Dear Mr Cornwell I am about to write a biography on a Freemason whose life and times, need to be recorded. He was in short, a Scallywag and Freemason involved in what has been termed Fringe Masonry, that is Freemasonry beyond the Craft. Before going further, and before you start to think, not another fruit cake!. Let me explain, I am a masonic Writer, and Freemason, I write on many subjects on Freemasonry. But I am drawn to the spooky side of freemasonry, anyway getting back to the story, this Scallywag was called Robert Wentworth Little, his life story, which is to long to record in a short post, But if you should feel you may like to know more, I can let you have more detail. It is his Father which may interest you, when I visited the Principal Probate Office, to check out Little,s will, I had a bit of a shock, it was recorded that his real name was Robert Cottrell Wellington Waterloo Little, Why Wellington Waterloo ?. His father Cottrell Little was in the 2/44th Regiment of Foot, of which you are fully aware. His father was a Sgt and Irish, and involved in every aspect of the Napoleonic Wars, which you record in your books, and survived, he was invalided out with war fatigue, I have his pension records from the TNA, he had a Waterloo Medal. Anyway, I just thought you may find it of interest, it is a bleedy good story though ain’t it. yours sincerely David Peabody ( the name is kosher)