Knights Templar Priests Aid Cancer Research

The Grand High Priest, Peter Donnison, has responded, together with the Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of Yorkshire, to the Daisy Appeal to further cancer research and treatment. The facilities are being developed at Castle Hill Hospital, near Hull, and comprise facilities costing more than £30m. When finished, the research facilities will be the best in Europe. For the Mark Province, this is their third major donation to the project.
    The Grand College of The Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests exists to deepen the Knights Templar experience and is a fast-growing Order. The College recently consecrated a new Tabernacle in Osnabrück in Germany for an African assembly from Togo.
    To qualify for membership of the Order, one must be a subscribing Installed Master in the Craft, a subscribing member of a Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, a subscribing member of a Preceptory of Knights Templar and able to make the Statement of Faith.

New Leader for Mark Province of Nottinghamshire

The Annual Meeting of Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons for the Province of Nottinghamshire was held at the Masonic Hall, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, which is the headquarters for Freemasonry in Nottinghamshire. Atotal of 287 Brethren were present in the Ionic Temple, including 18 Provincial Grand Masters and 40 distinguished guests from other Provinces, to take part in the installation of Michael Gutteridge as the new Provincial Grand Master for the Mark Province of Nottinghamshire. The installation was carried out by the Pro Grand Master of Mark Masons, John Hale.
    In his inaugural address, the new Provincial Grand Master said, ‘We had a tremendous spirit within the Order in raising funds for the Mark Benevolent Fund 137th Festival, under the Chairmanship of this Province. We managed to raise the sum of £555,555, which was the highest sum ever raised on a per capita basis. At the same time our Craft Province has been engaged in a Festival for the New Masonic Samaritan Fund, and I am sure that when that is completed we will witness another tremendous sum raised from Nottinghamshire.’
    Michael Gutteridge was initiated in 1968 in the Craft Bentinck Lodge, No. 3416, exalted in the Royal Arch Galway Chapter, No. 5408, in 1971, advanced in Mark Masonry in the Woodthorpe Lodge, No. 1144, in 1974 and is a prominent member of other masonic Orders.