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    the Premier Grand Lodge of England was founded on 24 June 1717 as the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster. Originally concerned with the practice of Freemasonry...
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  • United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) is the governing Masonic lodge for the majority of freemasons in England, Wales, and the Commonwealth of Nations...
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    The Ancient Grand Lodge of England, as it is known today, or The Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons...
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  • functions of a fully operating Lodge. Unable to create a charter, the African Americans applied to the Premier Grand Lodge of England. The Grand Master of the...
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  • Century, the Premier Grand Lodge of England and the Grand Lodge of Ireland favoured the day of John the Baptist, while the Grand Lodge of Scotland, the...
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    chronology of the formation of "regular" or "mainstream" Masonic Grand Lodges in North America, descending from the Premier Grand Lodge of England or its...
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    Frederick became Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, and in December of that year his brother, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn...
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    The Grand Lodge of Ireland is the second most senior Grand Lodge of Freemasons in the world, and the oldest in continuous existence. Since no specific...
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  • Provincial Grand Lodge of North Carolina, being under jurisdiction of the Premier Grand Lodge of England since January 14, 1771. It is currently composed of 354...
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    gentleman of England", but his dissolute way of life and poor relationships with his parents and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick, earned him the contempt of the...
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    of the Bath, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1725, and a Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England which was the first Masonic Grand Lodge to...
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    accumulated more debts. He became Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England in 1723, and was active in the House of Lords in opposition to Robert...
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  • Masonic myths (category History of Freemasonry)
    tradition by the Freemasons of the premier Grand Lodge of England served to invent a language made up of signs and words of recognition, as well as a word...
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  • 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...
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    Fellow of the Royal Society in 1724. He followed his father, the 1st Duke, into freemasonry and was a Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England in...
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    Turkey. In England and Wales, the governing body is The Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales and its Districts and Lodges Overseas, which...
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  • result. Two lodges were formed in Livorno in 1763 and 1765 under the Antient Grand Lodge of England, and the Premier Grand Lodge of England produced two...
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  • century, the Premier Grand Lodge of England (known as the "Moderns"), established in London in 1717, and the Ancient Grand Lodge of England (known as the...
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  • Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745–1790), Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England Henry Frederick, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg...
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    William Preston (Freemason) (category Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
    Lodge of Antiquity seceded from the Moderns Grand Lodge to become "The Grand Lodge of All England South of the River Trent" for ten years. He died on 1...
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  • Duke of Chartres, renamed the Grand Orient de France in 1773. The ritual of the new Grand Lodge followed that of the Premier Grand Lodge of England. By...
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  • Cumberland, the Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, issued a charter for "The African Lodge No. 1" (later renamed African Lodge No. 459. With...
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    John Theophilus Desaguliers (category Grand masters of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
    1717 to form what would become the Premier Grand Lodge of England. The new grand lodge grew rapidly as more lodges joined, and Desaguliers is remembered...
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    Samuel Wesley (composer, born 1766) (category Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
    Freemasonry in the Lodge of Antiquity, London. The Duke of Sussex appointed him Grand Organist of the Premier Grand Lodge of England in 1812, and he continued...
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    Beaufort held the office of Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England between 1767 and 1772. From 1768 to 1770, he was Master of the Horse to Queen...
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    the Royal Arch degree in England, while it was met with hostility in the Premier Grand Lodge of England. In 1764, a lodge of Scottish masons attached...
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    Nathan Mayer Rothschild (category Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
    securities. Rothschild became a freemason of the Emulation Lodge, No. 21, of the Premier Grand Lodge of England on 24 October 1802, in London. Up until...
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    Anthony Sayer (category Grand masters of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
    1741), on 24 June 1717 (the Feast of St. John the Baptist), at the formation of the first Premier Grand Lodge of England of freemasons at London, the members...
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  • Joseph Salvador (category Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
    him on behalf of England's Jewish community. Salvador was a pro-Hanovarian freemason belonging to the Premier Grand Lodge of England and was engaged in...
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    of Lorraine in 1729. In 1731 he was initiated into freemasonry (Grand Lodge of England) by John Theophilus Desaguliers at a specially convened lodge in...
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