Essex Freemasons donate £40,000 to Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
Essex Freemasons donate £40,000 to charity fighting for more work experience opportunities for Redbridge children in education
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Freemasons support Schools for Gambia and Lifelites
Schools for Gambia and Lifelites benefit from Warwickshire Installed Master’s Lodge Ladies Festival Weekend The end of W Bro Keith Holdsworth’s year…
The philanthropy and tea empire of Freemason Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton
A self-made man who brought tea to the British masses, Freemason Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton also campaigned for the sick and the poor, as Philippa Faulks discovers
Many masonic lodges around the world can boast of a famous member among their ranks, but Glasgow’s Lodge Scotia, No. 178, has one rather remarkable brother – Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton. As with many other masons quietly carrying out acts of philanthropy, Lipton remains an unsung hero.
A Landmark Visit to the Kent Museum of Freemasonry
Members of the Worshipful Company of Masons and the Livery Company of Masons Trust, with Museum Trustees Roger O’Brien & Tony Eldridge A group from…
The Dr John B Lloyd £1500 Masonic Bursary Award 2016
Left to right: Dr Mina Davies Morel; Daniel Stout, RW Bro Stephen Hookey, Dr Mike Rose, Prof Mike Gooding Daniel Stout is the recipient of the…
Bedford Masonic Lodge supports taekwondo star Tate Budge with a cheque for £1,200
Bedford Masonic Lodge supports taekwondo star Tate Budge
Music Matters – Faith, Hope and Harmony
MUSICAL MEMORIES: From the Canterbury Festival 6 years ago. This article was submitted by Tony Eldridge, Secretary and one of the Founding Members of the…
The “Free” In Freemasonry
WHY IS IT THAT OUR Fraternity bears the name “Freemasonry” instead of “Masonry”? Why the “free” in it? Far back in the Middle Ages a freemason was the name of a builder who could design buildings as well as construct them. He was what we should now call an architect.
Freemasons in China: the Portuguese link – W Bro A.M.A. Gonçalves
The emerging of freemasonry in China in the 18th century has been reported a British invention, coming from the historical conflict, the Opium War, that involve Great Britain and China in a dispute about the trading routes in the Eastern Chinese coast and commerce of the narcotic product among the Chinese population.
MOZART AND THE AUSTRIAN FREEMASONS by W.Bro. Martin I.McGregor
Born in Salzburg on 27th January 1756, he was baptized the following day at St. Ruperts Cathedral as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Theophilus means ‘beloved of God’ and Mozart later used the Latin form Amadeus, -stylized sometimes as Amade or Amadeo- or the German form Gottlieb. His father, Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was born in Augsburg in Bavaria, where the Mozart family can be traced back to the 14thCentury