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6 unusual facts about Masonic Lodge Officers


Cheltenham Masonic Hall

The Junior Warden’s Chair has been broken and a new top of a different style added on, containing a group of tools.

The Senior Warden’s Chair has some delicate little emblems introduced in the carving – the Fellow Craft tools and the Senior Warden level, in a supporting ribbon.

Masonic Lodge Officers

The precise list of such offices may vary between the jurisdictions of different Grand Lodges, although certain factors are common to all, and others are usual in most.

In 1787 the lodge appointed Robert Burns as 'Poet Laureate', an investiture later immortalised in a painting by Stewart Watson, the original of which hangs in the Grand Lodge of Scotland building in Edinburgh.

Many years later (in 1905), the office of Poet Laureate in this lodge was awarded to Rudyard Kipling, who was made an honorary member for that purpose.

The Grand Master may preside over his Grand Lodge, and also has certain powers and rights in every lodge under his jurisdiction.



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