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Past 'acting rank' provincial grand officers may be considered for promotion to either a higher provincial office ('acting' or 'past') or, in due time, even at UGLE (Grand Lodge) level. Holders of UGLE Grand Rank are distinguished from provincial grand officers by wearing aprons that are of a larger size and of slightly different design.
The very first Provincial Grand Master was appointed for Cheshire in 1725. [3] There are now Provinces (with Provincial Grand Masters) under the Grand Lodge of Ireland, [4] the National Grand Lodge of France, [5] and the Grand Lodge of Scotland, [6] for example. However, not all Masonic jurisdictions have Provinces or Provincial Grand Masters.
Provincial Grand Lodge of New York (Moderns) - 1738-1780s - Warrants issued by GLE (Moderns) to Francis Goelet (1738–1753), to George Harrison (1753–1771), to Sir John Johnson (from 1771). As Johnson was a Loyalist during the American Revolution , he is believed to have taken his warrant with him when he fled to Canada, thus leaving the ...
Provincial Grand Lodge of New York ("Athol Charter" - Ancients) - 1781-1784 - Although this PGL was Warranted by the "Ancients", the final Provincial Grand Master, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston (PGM: 1784–87), was actually the Master of a Lodge under the Jurisdiction of the Moderns, thus uniting the two branches of English Freemasonry in ...
Provincial Grand Lodges are administrative subdivisions of a Grand Lodge. Under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England , they are the regional governing bodies of Freemasonry in the England , Wales , the Isle of Man , and the Channel Islands .
The first documented presence of Freemasonry in New York dates from the mid-1730s, when Daniel Coxe Jr. (1673–1739), was appointed by Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk, the Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, known to historians as the "Moderns", to act as a Provincial Grand Master for the provinces of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
After a Provincial Grand Lodge meeting in which the idea was ruled out of order by the Deputy Grand Master, the officers met and formed the Grand Lodge of Canada on 10 October 1855. Its officers were elected the next day, with William Mercer Wilson being elected the first Grand Master of the newly created Grand Lodge, and installed on 2 November.
The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, commonly referred to as the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and abbreviated GLMA, is the main governing body of Freemasonry within Massachusetts, and maintains Lodges in other jurisdictions overseas, namely Panama, Chile, the People's Republic of China (meeting in Tokyo, Japan), and ...