Allied Degree Presentation

Thursday, 12th May 2016 Allied Degree Presentation On 12th May 2016 District Grand Prefect of the Order of Allied Masonic Degrees, Rt W.Bro.Joseph Edward Crosby, accompanied by Provincial Officers, presented a cheque for £2000 to Keswick Rugby Club, the fund was made available from donations to the flood appeal from Allied Degree Council’s across the Province and will … Read more

AMD District of London Donates £500 in support of the Lifelites Children’s Charity

The District of London recently donated £500 to the Metropolitan Grand Lodge of London in its support of the Lifelites Children’s Charity. The Charity, whose mission is to enrich the lives of children with life threatening or life limiting illnesses, by providing specialist entertainment, educational and assistive technology packages to children’s hospices, currently have 49 … Read more

History of the Allied Masonic Degrees

The vast majority of the ‘additional’ degrees worked in England in the early part of the nineteenth century originally came under the patronage of warrants granted by the ‘Antients’, who held that Craft Warrants entitled Lodges to work any Masonic degree to which they had knowledge and members available who could work it. Upon the formation of the United Grand Lodge various groups of degrees were gradually organised into separate Orders each with their own governing body.