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The Masonic and Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine, South Wales and Monmouthshire Division makes £1000.00 Charity Donation to Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice
On Saturday 13th August at the main theatre of Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, the first Tripartite Meeting of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine took place, which included the divisions of Cumbria, North and East Lancashire and West Lancashire.
The need for this further essay was first made apparent to me when—in my capacity as Secretary of the Lodge and Editor of the Transactions—I began to receive inquiries from Brethren as far away as Vancouver and Singapore, asking for materials and information which might help them to complete their own papers on Kipling, and I found, to my surprise, that while our library contains a great deal of relevant material, there has never been a paper on Kipling in our Transactions.
The Worcestershire Masonic Orders meeting at Kidderminster collected £4,350 with the generous help of Red Cross of Constantine, Grand Sovereign’s Care for Children Fund.
No fewer than 37 charities received grants totalling more than £25,000 from Shropshire’s Freemasons at a special awards day on Monday, 20th June. Representatives from most of the charities were on hand to receive grants at a special reception and buffet lunch.
QC logo Brethren, I can only apologize for the lack of postings over the few weeks, but my focus has been on the final preparations for my presentation on…
The Allied Masonic Degrees (AMD) are a series of Masonic degrees conferred by Councils of the Allied Masonic Degrees. The Allied Masonic Degrees form an appendant order of Freemasonry that exists in some Masonic jurisdictions; its degrees are conferred only by invitation. Councils of the Allied Masonic Degrees exist in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, France and Australia and their members also educate one another by presenting research papers on Freemasonry.
W Bro Paul Cooper Installed as Worshipful Master of Somerset Masters Lodge The 101st Meeting of Somerset Masters Lodge 3746, was held at Nailsea…
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.
A visit by the Grand Superintendent Tony Harrison is always a special occasion and over 50 companions turned out to enjoy a delightful installation…