Speaker from The Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076

Brethren:


John Harris Council #458 Allied Masonic Degrees and the NH 2nd Circle of the Masonic Society will be co-hosting a special meeting in Manchester, NH on Friday September
24, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. with a featured speaker. From

The Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076

will be Brother Trevor Stewart who will be delighting our cultural tastes that evening for our
enlightenment. His lecture will be "Ripples in the Pond - on the Doing of Some Masonic
Research." His bio is included below.

You do not have to be a member of either of these Bodies to attend.
This event is open to all Master Masons who are in search of more light, especially those who enjoy Masonic research. Dress is business suit attire, no Jeans or T-shirts.
There will be a supper served at 6:00 p.m. in the dining area and advance reservations are required. You may make such with Dennis A. Sheridan at dasheridan49@gmail.com or directly with R. Bradley Aldefer at rbalderfer@gmail.com.
This will be something different for us to enjoy brethren. I hope you will seize the opportunity to learn more about the Research end of the Fraternity.
Trevor’s biography is below:



Trevor Stewart


Trevor Stewart is a retired lecturer who was educated at Birmingham, Sheffield, Durham and Newcastle Universities. His academic work specialised in English eighteenth-century English literature and his doctoral research focussed on a coterie of Enlightenment gentlemen freemasons who lived in the north of England.

Bro. Stewart continued to give fully documented papers on various masonic subjects in American, Belgian, French, German and Scottish lodges – at both lodge and Provincial Grand Lodge levels - as well as in many English Lodges, Royal Arch Chapters and in London’s ancient Guildhall. He has also taught in history seminars at Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard Universities (2004) which focussed on newly discovered contributions made by early eighteenth-century English freemasons to the development and spread of ‘Newtonianism’. In October 2007 he was invited by the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge Masonic Academy to give his paper on ‘A Way Forward – some seminar techniques’. He was the keynote speaker at the 2010 annual dinner of the Philalethes Society in Minneapolis. He was invited by the Grand Lodge of Romania to address their May 2010 communication in Huniazilor Castle and by the National Grand Lodge of Greece in June 2010 at their communication in Athens.

Bro. Stewart contributed papers on Freemasonry in the Enlightenment period to international conferences held at the Canonbury Masonic Research Centre (London), the University of Bordeaux and the first and second international UK conferences on the history of Freemasonry in Edinburgh (2007 & 2009). He has published several other papers in the annual transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge (AQC) and of the Leicester Lodge of Research, in Hibiscus (GL of Florida) and in The Ashlar, the leading Scottish masonic quarterly. He edited two volumes of The Canonbury Papers (2005 & 2006) for the Canonbury Masonic Research Centre (London). He has published numerous lectures in bound pamphlet format, a world-renowned English translation of Martinez de Pasqually’s crucial esoteric text: Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings; and he has recently published a fully illustrated monograph on the famous 1702 Haughfoot Lodge, which formerly existed in the Scottish Borders region. He is planning three new books on the hitherto unpublished non-masonic writings of William Hutchinson (1732-1814), the founder of English masonic symbolism.

In 2004 Bro. Stewart was appointed by the United Grand Lodge of England to be its Prestonian Lecturer. He is a Past Master of three English Lodges, including the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 (English Constitution) and from June 2010 will be the Right Worshipful Master of Lodge ‘Sir Robert Moray’ No. 1641 (the leading Scottish research lodge - Edinburgh). In December 2007 he was elected to Honorary Membership of both The Alpha Lodge No. 116 (New Jersey) and St. John’s Lodge No. 1 (New York City). He was elected subsequently to Honorary Memberships of the Cincinnati and the Atlas-Pythagoras Lodges (New Jersey) and he is particularly delighted to be associated so strongly with such distinguished New Jersey masonic bodies. He was created Right Worshipful Grand Lecturer (Honorary) by the Grand Lodge of New Jersey in September 2009. He was created a Ninth Grade (Magus) by the SRICF in Washington DC (February 2007). He edited ‘From Across the Water’ an anthology of eight past papers from AQC on North American Freemasonry in the colonial era (copies may still available from the Scottish Rite Research Society, Washington DC).

Bro. Stewart has held office in all of the Orders which grace the English Masonic landscape, is a Life Member of various Scottish Orders - including the Grand Lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland - has been honoured in the Rectified Scottish Rite in Belgium and in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in Germany. In SRIA he was a member of its High Council, a Chief Adept of a Province, the Director-General of Studies and an active member of its Executive Committee. He edited the SRIA Transactions (2005).

27 July - Grand Master in Lancaster - please come!

On Tuesday July 27, 2010 the Most Worshipful Grand Master C. Wayne Libby, will be in Lancaster to hold another Town Hall style meeting. He is here for you Brethren to listen to your concerns and inquire about some questions he has. This will be an open format and you will all have time to ask questions. The details are as follows:

When: Tuesday July 27, 2010
Where: Masonic Temple, Main St. Lancaster, NH
Time: 6:30pm Gathering and informal discussions with Grand Master
7:00pm Meeting begins

Main Topics of Discussion: Lodge Finances, Membership, Viability of Lodges

Dress: Casual: polo shirts, pants NO Suits Needed

Please pass this along to any Brethren who I have not listed on email and I ask all of you to make an effort to attend and come support the Grand Master, when he is coming here to support you.

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Sincerely and fraternally,

David S. Collins
District Deputy Grand Master
District # 5
Grand Lodge of NH
Cell (603)344-5146

33rd Annual Table Lodge

Thirty-third Annual Table Lodge with Grafton-Kane Lodge No. 46 and Pulaski Lodge No. 58 will be Saturday June 19, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. The cost of a ticket is $25.00. It will be held in the Masonic Temple is North Haverhill, N.H.

Contact Worshipful Master Wayne Mitchell or Secretary Robert Steel to make a reservation. Remember this is open to all Entered Apprentices, so invite someone you know who would enjoy this occassion.

Welcome to the Fifth District Blog

This is the brand new blog of the Fifth Masonic District of NH.

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