Grand rank - The Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Grand rank - The Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Grand rank - The Library and Museum of Freemasonry
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A LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF FREEMASONRY INFORMATION SHEET<br />
Provincial <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Master Deputy Provincial <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Master Assistant District <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Master<br />
<strong>The</strong>se rulers have changed their regalia slightly. Immediately after the union <strong>of</strong> 1813 the Provincial<br />
<strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Master had regalia similar to the <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Ranks with a pomegranate centre device on the<br />
apron, a collar with a pomegranate on the point, the jewel as now <strong>and</strong> that design repeated on the<br />
cuffs. <strong>The</strong> earliest issue all appear to have been supplied from the tailor to the Duke <strong>of</strong> Sussex<br />
as<strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Master. It seems that the Provincial <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Masters changed to full embroidery around their<br />
aprons some time in the 1860s but the first mention in the Book <strong>of</strong> Constitutions is 1884. Surviving<br />
mid Victorian aprons sometimes show a transitional pattern with pomegranates spaced out around<br />
the apron border. <strong>The</strong> present pattern has lotus <strong>and</strong> pomegranate.<br />
Acting Provincial <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Officer (Dress) Acting District <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Officer (Undress)<br />
Metropolitan, Provincial <strong>and</strong> District <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Officers have full <strong>and</strong> undress regalia similar to the<br />
<strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Officers but the blue borders are narrower <strong>and</strong> the undress is decorated with gold braid. <strong>The</strong><br />
wreath is replaced by a circlet containing the word London for the Metropolitan <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Lodge or the<br />
name <strong>of</strong> the Province or District.<br />
<strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Inspector<br />
Where lodges exist overseas but are directly<br />
linked to UGLE they are normally grouped into a<br />
District. Where this is not possible, usually where<br />
there are too few, a <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong> Inspector is appointed<br />
to oversee them instead <strong>of</strong> a District <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong><br />
Master. His regalia is the same as the <strong>Gr<strong>and</strong></strong><br />
Officers <strong>and</strong> does not have the additional<br />
embroidery <strong>of</strong> the other rulers.<br />
© <strong>The</strong> <strong>Library</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Museum</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Freemasonry</strong> (Registered Charity No 1058497) 2011<br />
www.freemasonry.london.museum<br />
August 2011<br />
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