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This is a list of grand master masons of the Grand Lodge of Scotland: [1] 1736–1737: William St Clair of Roslin [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] 1737–1738: George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The oldest records held by the Grand Lodge of Scotland are minutes of Lodge Aitcheson's Haven which commence on 9 January 1599. [1]The connection between the craft of stonemasonry and modern Freemasonry can be readily established in Scotland.
This direct connection can be traced from the oldest Masonic written records in the world, which are the property of the Grand Lodge of Scotland in Edinburgh. [3] These records are the meeting minutes of the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No.1 which date from 1599.
A writer in the Freemasons' Quarterly Review in 1839 claimed Nelson and his servant, Tom Allen, were Freemasons, but gives no evidence to support his claim. Hamon Le Strange, in his History of Freemasonry in Norfolk, says that among the furniture of the Lodge of Friendship No. 100, at Yarmouth , there is a stone bearing an inscription to Nelson.
The Royal Order of Scotland is an appendant order within the structures of Freemasonry.Membership is an honour extended to Freemasons by invitation. The Grand Lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland is headquartered in Edinburgh, with a total of 88 subordinate Provincial Grand Lodges; of these, the greatest concentration (more than a third) is in the British Isles, with the rest located in ...
The records of the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No.1 extend back to 1598, making them an important historical source as the longest continuous masonic record. David Murray Lyon's history of the lodge, published in 1873, mined the records of Edinburgh's oldest lodge, and produced a history of Scottish Freemasonry.
Such records are most often kept at the individual lodge level, and may be lost due to fire, flood, deterioration, or simple carelessness. Grand Lodge governance may have shifted or reorganized, resulting in further loss of records on the member or the name, number, location or even existence of the lodge in question.
Hugh MacDonald (Scottish politician) Henry Mackenzie; Walter Erskine, Earl of Mar and Kellie (1839–1888) Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont; Frank Marshall (footballer, born 1904) Les McDowall; James Wilson McKay; David McNee; Matthew Walker Montgomery; James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray; Robert Moray; Joseph Morrow (officer of arms) Henry ...