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It is time to renew with (or join) QCCC for 2026. Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle is the corporate side of Quatuor Coronati Lodge 2076 in London. Membership in the lodge is limited to a small number of scholars who are elected, but guys like you and me may join QCCC, the principal benefit of which is possession of the treasury that is Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, the lodge’s annual book of transactions.

QC2076 will meet one more time this year for its installation of officers next Thursday at Great Queen Street. Bro. Richard Gan will be seated in the Solomonic Chair and will present his inaugural paper. From the summons:

Printed Masonic Periodicals

in England 1793-2024

Richard’s paper tracks the progress and regress of Masonic publishing through to the present day, a time when there is no longer any Masonic periodical with a national circulation in England, the last having ceased hard-copy publication in December 2024 when it transferred online.

Richard L. Gan was born in 1950 Bradford to Polish parents. He was educated at the Becket School, Nottingham, and graduated in Geology at London University, where he also took a Master’s Degree in education; in addition, he holds a Degree in Management Studies from the Open University. Richard’s professional career included teaching, educational management and Masonic administration.

He retired in June 2010 as Deputy Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons and thereafter was editor of The Square until 2014.

Richard was initiated in Ribblesdale Lodge No. 8020 in Nottingham in 1977 and promoted to Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies in 2008. He is a Grand Officer in all the major Orders of Freemasonry and in addition has served as the Grand Principal Conductor of the Work (Assistant Grand Master) in the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters and as Provincial Grand Master in the Mark for Middlesex.

Richard lives in Lincolnshire and writes and researches on subjects that include Victorian Freemasonry and the Orders beyond the Craft. He was elected a full member of Quatuor Coronati Lodge in 2014. He has been a regular Masonic speaker and has delivered more than fifty talks and lectures on a range of Masonic subjects; he has authored four monographs, six papers and eight books.

For next year’s meetings, the lodge has scheduled:

Thursday, February 19

Rob Hammond

“Does Freemasonry

Follow the Railroad?”

Thursday, May 14

Paul Calderwood

“Welsh Freemasonry

& the Unlawful Societies Act”

Thursday, June 25

Rod Taylor

“Masonic Firing Glasses”

Thursday, September 10

Daniel Johnson

“Solomon’s Temple in Myth & Ritual”

The 2026 Prestonian Lecture

Thursday, November 12

Installation Meeting

Installation Paper

Someday I will visit, I keep telling myself. Click here to join QCCC or click here to renew your membership.