On 27 December 1725, the feast of St. John the Evangelist, the York lodge claimed the status of a Grand Lodge.
The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1721, and was twice president of the old masonic lodge at York, later styled the Grand Lodge of All England.
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