Partick St Mary's Lodge No 117
Partick St. Mary's Lodge No 117
Chartered
29th March 1769

Partick St Mary's Lodge No 117



Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland
Within the Province of Glasgow

The History of Partick St Mary's Lodge No 117, In the year of, part three

1900

30th June: New Ballot Box presented to the Lodge by Brothers John Ferguson and Charles Robertson.

 

5th September: First mention of a visit from Dumbarton Kilwinning Lodge No 18.

 

5th December: First Benevolent Committee formed. On the same evening a collection for Grand Lodge was taken, £1 pound six shilling and eight and halfpence (a sad reflection on present day efforts).

1901

20th January: Lodge ordered three months of mourning upon the death of Queen Victoria.

1902

April: Two members, Brothers George Stewart and Archibald Dow, were among those killed in the Ibrox disaster.

1906

October: Bazaar held to raise money to pay off debts on the Douglas Street Hall, the sum of £716 Pounds five shillings and one and a half pence clear profit being made.

1907

28th May: Entered into the existing premises at 92 Dumbarton Road. Consecration 16th September 1908.

1910

June: Lodge ordered into mourning for six months upon the death of King Edward VII.

1911 

February: Reference made at the meeting that the Lodge had among its members one who was rightly presumed to be the oldest Past Master in Scotland , if not in the British Isles, namely Past Master Alexander Speirs, sixty seven years a member, and sixty years a Past Master. In this year also, the Lodge was once again successful in the Provincial Bowling Competition.

1912

3rd December: An Oak Desk and Tripod Stand was presented to the Lodge by Past Master John Smith.

1916

6th September: It was decreed by Grand Lodge that a Committee of Enquiry be set up in each Lodge to report on every application for membership.

1919

30th April: Fifty four (54) Entered Apprentices passed to the Fellowcraft Degree at one meeting; 294 Initiates entered during the year. The Terjubilee of the granting of the Charter was held taking the form of dinner held in the Burgh Hall, Maxwell Street, about 400 being present. This year also marked the Tercentenary of the early Lodge Room Build; in 1619, in which St Mary's Lodge met in the early days.

1919

1st December: Grand Lodge Law introduced which ordered that no more than seven candidates could be initiated in any of the degrees on the same day.

1921

5th October: Memorial Service and unveiling of the Roll of Honour by Past Master Alexander Bell, the oldest living Past Master of the Lodge.

1925

20th May: Sir Ian Colquhoun of Luss made an Honorary Member of the Lodge upon the occasion of his heading a deputation from Dumbarton Kilwinning Lodge No 18.

1931 – 1932

Winners of the Provincial Bowling Trophy.

1945

3rd June: Joint Masonic Divine Service of Thanksgiving in the Old Partick Parish Church by Brother John A Macrae, MA (Oxon), Senior Chaplain of Partick St Mary's, and Provincial Grand Chaplain.

1946

3rd October. Memorial Service and unveiling of Bronze Plaque by Brother John Mathews Past Master.


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