Emrys Lodge No. 3259
The Charter Master, W Bro J Emrys Evans was the financial adviser to the British Government in the Transvaal after the South African war, and was awarded the CMG for his services. His masonic standing was that of President of the Board of General Purposes and it is interesting to note that his ten cofounders […]
Doornfontein Lodge No. 2585
The lodge took its name from the first ‘swagger suburb’ of Johannesburg and its founders included brethren already prominent on the Transvaal masonic, scene, including the Acting IPM, Solomon Hershfield, the Collector of Customs, who had helped to overcome Grand Lodge resistance to forming new lodges in the Transvaal while it was not under British […]
Corona Lodge No. 2731
Pity the encapsulator, faced with some 80 000 words to be reduced to about 250! But fortunately Ivor Sander’s excellent history of Corona has been much quoted in this volume, and a number of the Lodge’s personalities have received their due, under one heading or another. So let it be noted, as a fact in […]
Columbia Lodge No. 2900
The majority of the founders were engineers, largely connected with the mining industry and at least four, including the Charter Master, were Americans – which no doubt influenced the District Grand Master in making his support for the petition conditional on the lodge using ‘English’ ritual! Whether the American connection had a bearing on the […]
Clifton Lodge No. 2748
In 1894 there was a move to rename the area known as New Braamfontein. The name chosen by the Ratepayers’ Association was Clifton, but although it came into some popular use, it was never formally registered. But the new lodge chose it, and its first meeting place was the lower ground floor of the Clifton […]
Clarendon Lodge No. 7041
In 1947, W Bro J H Vivian, then President of the Board of General Purposes, was charged to seek a site for headquarters for the District ‘north of the railway line’ and he reported, within three months, the acquisition of ‘a magnificent plot in the salubrious neighbourhood of Clarendon Circle’. So in anticipation of being […]
Civil Service Lodge No. 3118
Civil Service Lodge started off by creating a record – that of having 70 petitioners. What is more these all fell within the definition ‘Civil and Municipal Servants and Regular Army’. A busy first year saw 49 degrees conferred and by 1908 there were 127 members. There were two significant developments in 1913, the first […]
Bohemian Lodge No. 4475
Brewer defines ‘Bohemian’ as ‘a term applied to artists, writers and others of unconventional, loose or irregular habits.’ And the brethren who petitioned for the Bohemian Lodge may have been unconventional, in that they were largely drawn from the entertainment profession, and – because of the calls of that profession of irregular habits. But loose […]
Baden Powell Lodge No. 9370
As the name of the lodge suggests it was formed to attract members and former members of the scouting movement. Although the founder of the movement was not a Freemason, permission was obtained to use his name, which was especially appropriate in view of Lord Baden Powell’s association with South Africa, especially as Colonel in […]
Aviation Lodge No. 8471
The reason for forming a lodge was well expressed by W Bro George Hookham in the oration given at he Consecration: ‘The founders of this new lodge are those who are experts at keeping machines heavier than air right up above the clouds. However, they must have their feet firmly on the ground … In […]