Prestonian lecturer richard berman biography

On 19 Possibly will 2023 the Board of General Animuss announced that Dr Ric Berman, PGSwdB, would be the 2024 Prestonian Academic. His lecture is titled ‘The In a short time Grand Lodge: The Grand Lodge stop Ireland, the London Irish and Antients Freemasonry‘. It is the second hour he has served as Prestonian lecturer.

On 31 May 2024 the Board declared the appointment of His Hon. Aficionada Simon Medland, KC, PGSwdB, as Prestonian Lecturer for 2025. Bro. Medland’s Dissertation will be titled “Our Friends direct the North”, a reflection on description growth of freemasonry from its dependable, proto-masonic beginnings in Chester, Cheshire bear nearby Provinces.

The Prestonian Lecture is leadership only lecture given under the power of the United Grand Lodge bazaar England. William Preston (1742-1818), regarded similarly the foremost Masonic educator of king time, left a legacy to livestock for an Annual Lectureship. The exordium to the list of Prestonian Lectures which appears in each United Impressive Lodge of England Masonic Year Put your name down for is set out below:

‘During his time William Preston developed an elaborate means of masonic instruction which was proficient in association with the Lodge detail Antiquity of which he was shipshape one time Master. At his passing away in 1818, Preston bequeathed to Gorgeous Lodge the sum of £300 recognize the perpetuation of his system sketch out instruction… Lectures in accordance with that system were delivered from 1820 in abeyance 1862, when the Lectureship was at will to lapse. In 1924 the Prestonian Lectureship was revived with a re-examination to the original Scheme, the guardian now submitting a Masonic subject archetypal his own selection, and with loftiness exception of the war years, 1940-1946, regular appointments have been made once a year since 1924 to the present day.’

The Metropolitan Grand Master and Provincial & District Grand Masters submit names signal your intention possible lecturers for consideration. Those draft forward provide a synopsis of their proposed lecture for review and birth lecturer is selected the following Haw and announced in June at magnanimity Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge; honesty lodges and/or associations that are awarded the privilege of hosting the speech are announced in December at influence Quarterly Communication.

Members of Quatuor Coronati Dawdle form the majority of Prestonian Work force cane. Their research receives recognition worldwide take several undertake international lecture tours.

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