‘Three centuries of British Lodge’

    

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The Heraldic Badge granted to the United Grand Lodge of England for British Lodge viii.

I wrote the other day about my lodge reaching its hundredth year, but what do you get the lodge that celebrates its tricentennial anniversary? We would have to ask British Lodge viii in London.

The summer issue of Freemasonry Today magazine reports the February commemoration featured Peter Lowndes, Pro Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, at the installation of officers at Freemasons’ Hall. In addition, the lodge commissioned a writer to compile the lodge’s life story, and a Heraldic Badge was devised for British’s use.

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British Lodge viii is one of nineteen ‘Red Apron’ lodges that nominate UGLE Grand Stewards.

That written history, a copy of which was presented to each attendee of the celebration, “gives a fascinating account of key events and personalities over the lodge’s 300 years of existence,” says FMT, “from the first recorded meeting of the lodge at Tom’s Coffee House in London’s Clare Market to the present day. It was clear that the lodge had dined well throughout its long history, and the members had a particular taste for champagne!”

Read all about it here.

(Why should a New York Mason take notice? Daniel Coxe was among its members, according to Hugo Tatsch’s Freemasonry in the Thirteen Colonies.)