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31-640: Early editors included Walter Purton (1880–92), William McDonald Sinclair (1892–1901), Augustus Robert Buckland (1901–02), Henry Wace (1902–05), William Griffith Thomas (1905–10) and Guy Warman , jointly, from 1910 to 1914. Other editors include Frank Colquhoun and Gerald Bray . Contributors to Churchman have included: J. C. Ryle , J. Stafford Wright , C. Sydney Carter, Geoffrey W. Bromiley , Philip Edgecumbe Hughes , Arthur Pollard, J. I. Packer , Alan Stibbs, John Stott , Roger Beckwith , J. A. Motyer , and Jane Marsh Parker . Among contributors have been Mary Strong, who in her introduction to "Letter of

62-418: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . William Sinclair (son) William Macdonald Sinclair FRGS (1850–1917) was a British Anglican clergyman and author, who was Archdeacon of London . He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 3 June 1850, his father

93-565: Is considered to be the oldest Masonic Grand Lodge in the world, together with the Grand Lodge of Scotland , and the Grand Lodge of Ireland . Prior to 1717 there were Freemasons' lodges in England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the earliest known admission of non-operative masons being in Scotland. On St John's Day, 24 June 1717, three existing London lodges and a Westminster lodge held a joint dinner at

124-651: Is presented by three Freemasons from across the UGLE constitution: In English politics, freemasonry has often been criticised by those associated with the Labour Party and trade unionism , because of a perception that freemasonry is aligned with the Conservative Party . The Labour Party became the second party of the United Kingdom from 1922 onward and stood on a platform of representing working-class interests, while

155-467: Is the case with Nesta Helen Webster in her Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1924). The American-born but English-domiciled Lady Queenborough pulled fewer punches with her Occult Theocrasy (1933), claiming that English freemasonry was founded as a front for the " Manichean " Rosicrucians . Many of these conspiracy theorists also attempted to implicate Jews or Jesuits as working hand in hand with masonry (such as Barry Domvile , coiner of

186-657: The Churchman , filling the post until 1901, when he was succeeded by Augustus Robert Buckland . He was elected to the London School Board as one of the representatives of the Westminster Division in 1885. He was appointed acting chaplain to the 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps on 31 January 1900, and was commissioned as a fourth class chaplain (ranking as a captain ) when the Territorial Force (TF)

217-560: The Freemason's Quarterly Review to promote charity to keep Freemasons from the workhouse, and to engage masons in the broader argument for social reform. The Earl of Zetland 's complacent and inept management of Grand Lodge played into the hands of the reformers, and by the end of the 1870s English Freemasonry had become a perfect expression of the aspirations of the enlightened middle classes. In response to conspiracy theories about Freemasons and generally hostile views gaining new life, due to

248-720: The United Grand Lodge of England . His published works include: United Grand Lodge of England The United Grand Lodge of England ( UGLE ) is the governing Masonic lodge for the majority of freemasons in England , Wales , and the Commonwealth of Nations . Claiming descent from the Masonic Grand Lodge formed 24 June 1717 at the Goose & Gridiron Tavern in London , it

279-533: The 1990s when Jack Straw , Home Secretary in the Tony Blair government attempted to force all Freemasons who worked as police officers, judges or magistrates to publicly declare membership in the organisation. In 2009, the ruling that freemasons had to declare if they were judges or magistrates was scrapped by Straw after fears that he would lose a court case at the European Court of Human Rights . Critics regard

310-620: The Conservatives and Liberals were largely based in the middle-class and upper-class (similar to Freemasonry). After a number of Labour MPs were blackballed from joining Masonic lodges, the Prince of Wales who was concerned by the potential conflict, intervened and had the New Welcome Lodge created for Labour members in 1929. Herbert Morrison claimed that his 1935 bid for the Labour leadership

341-653: The Craft. As a result, these Masons felt a stronger kinship with the unaffiliated London Lodges. The aristocratic nature of the London Grand Lodge and its members alienated other Masons causing them also to identify with the unaffiliated Lodges. On 17 July 1751, representatives of five Lodges gathered at the Turk's Head Tavern, in Greek Street , Soho , London and formed a rival Grand Lodge: " The Grand Lodge of England According to

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372-486: The Goose and Gridiron alehouse in St Paul's Churchyard , elected Anthony Sayer to the chair as Grand Master, and called themselves the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster . The City of London Corporation has erected a Blue Plaque near the location. Little is known of Sayer save that he was described as a Gentleman (a man of independent means) when he became Grand Master, but later fell on hard times, receiving money from

403-717: The Grand Lodge charity fund. Historian Marsha Keith Schuchard notes that the Whig administration of England organised the Grand Lodge as a Hanoverian-loyalist counter to the Jacobite rising of 1715 , since the Whigs were concerned at the previous Jacobite influence in Freemason lodges. The Freemasonry that predominated in Hanoverian England was hence closely linked with Whiggism . In 1718 Sayer

434-474: The Grand Lodge, James Anderson published the Constitutions of Masonry for the purposes of regulating the craft and establishing the Grand Lodge's authority to warrant Lodges to meet. The book includes a fanciful history of the Craft, which nevertheless contains much interesting material. Throughout the early years of the new Grand Lodge there were any number of Masons and lodges that never affiliated with

465-638: The Grand Master is a member of the royal family it is customary to appoint a Pro Grand Master . The Pro Grand Master fills the role of the Grand Master when he is not available due to his royal duties. It is distinct from the Deputy Grand Master who acts as the Grand Master's deputy rather than as acting Grand Master. In October 2022, the United Grand Lodge of England launched an official podcast titled "Craftcast: The Freemasons Podcast". The show

496-674: The Moderns on the resignation of his brother, the Prince Regent ; and in December 1813 another brother, Duke of Kent became Grand Master of the Antients . On 27 December 1813 the United Grand Lodge of England ("UGLE") was constituted at Freemasons' Hall, London with the Duke of Sussex (younger son of King George III ) as Grand Master. A Lodge of Reconciliation was formed to reconcile the rituals worked under

527-599: The Old Institutions ". They considered that they practised a more ancient and therefore purer form of Masonry, and called their Grand Lodge The Ancients' Grand Lodge . They called those affiliated to the Premier Grand Lodge, by the pejorative epithet The Moderns . These two unofficial names stuck. The creation of Lodges followed the development of the Empire, with all three home Grand Lodges warranting Lodges around

558-522: The Scattered Brotherhood" state she submitted and were published in The Churchman across a span of 14 years letters and writings from anonymous writings of genuine religious experience. These were later published in a collection: "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood", 1948, New York, Harper & Row. The copyright continues. This article about an academic journal on religious studies

589-514: The case to freemasonry through Michael Maybrick . Some native proponents of more generic anti-masonic conspiracy theories involving the Illuminati (based on John Robison and Augustin Barruel ) have typically sought to implicate only Continental Freemasonry as a subversive force, while claiming to not be attacking the United Grand Lodge of England itself or British freemasonry more generally. This

620-487: The general public to see what they do. Freemasons' Hall, London and the Library and Museum of Freemasonry also opened to the general public, including guided tours. Today, the United Grand Lodge of England or Grand Lodge currently has over 200,000 members meeting in over 6,800 Lodges, organised into a number of subordinate Provincial Grand Lodges which are approximately equivalent to the historic counties of England . When

651-495: The group Common Purpose as an attempt to set up a pro-Labour freemasonry equivalent. As with freemasonry in other countries, the United Grand Lodge of England has featured as the subject of Masonic conspiracy theories ; the most persistent of these attempts to link freemasonry to a "cover-up" or whitewash of the Jack the Ripper case (in some cases, conspiracy theorists have claimed that

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682-687: The killings were masonic ritual murder ), the inquiry into the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (though Lord Mersey , Sydney Buxton and Lord Pirrie ), and Bloody Sunday (though Lord Widgery ). In the Ripper case, Stephen Knight 's Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1976) attempted to implicate freemasonry and the British royal family in the murders through the personage of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale . Elements of this theory, through

713-521: The new Grand Lodge. These unaffiliated Masons and their Lodges were referred to as "Old Masons", or "St John Masons", and "St John Lodges". During the 1730s and 1740s antipathy increased between the London Grand Lodge and the Grand Lodges of Ireland and Scotland. Irish and Scots Masons visiting and living in London considered the London Grand Lodge to have deviated substantially from the ancient practices of

744-415: The novel of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell , even made its way into a major American film, From Hell (2001). The Hughes Brothers who produced the film, even approached the United Grand Lodge of England to get the "masonic bits" right, but, they were rebuffed due to the anti-masonic nature of the storyline. Another thesis, promoted by Bruce Robinson in his They All Love Jack (2015), attempts to link

775-495: The two former Grand Lodges. The new Grand Master had high hopes for Freemasonry, having a theory that it was pre-Christian and could serve the cause of humanity as a universal religion. However, his autocratic dealings with ordinary lodges won him few friends outside London, and sparked open rebellion and a new Grand Lodge of Wigan in the North West. Within Grand Lodge, opposition centred on Masonic Charity. Robert Crucefix launched

806-511: The works of Stephen Knight and Martin Short , the United Grand Lodge of England began to change the way it dealt with the general public and the media from the mid-1990s, emphasizing a new "openness." This presentation was summed up by Provincial Secretary of East Lancashire, Alan Garnett who declared, "we're not a secret society or a society with secrets, but we are a private society." Lodges across England and Wales began holding open days, to allow

837-557: The world, including the Americas, India and Africa, from the 1730s. In 1809 the Moderns appointed a "Lodge of Promulgation" to return their own ritual to regularity with Scotland, Ireland and especially the Ancients. In 1811 both Grand Lodges appointed Commissioners; and over the next two years, articles of Union were negotiated and agreed upon. In January 1813 the Duke of Sussex became Grand Master of

868-554: Was formed on 1 April 1908. He became chaplain to the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) in the TF on 31 January 1910, as Third Class Chaplain (ranking as a Major ). His last clerical appointment was as rector of Shermanbury (1911–1915). An Honorary Chaplain to the King , he died on 4 December 1917. He was a keen Freemason and was appointed in 1894 to the senior position of Grand Chaplain in

899-527: Was sabotaged by Lodge members who preferred first Arthur Greenwood and then Clement Attlee . Despite the creation of the New Welcome Lodge, there remained an element of hostility to Masonry within the Labour Party. As well as the alleged Tory connections, they accused Freemasonry of having unaccountable influence within the judicial system. This issue was brought to the forefront of English politics in

930-569: Was succeeded by George Payne , a successful Civil Servant. The society then passed into the care of John Theophilus Desaguliers , a scientist and clergyman, then back to Payne. In 1721, the Grand Lodge managed to obtain a nobleman, the Duke of Montagu to preside as Grand Master, and so was able to establish itself as an authoritative regulatory body, and began meeting on a quarterly basis. This resulted in lodges outside London becoming affiliated, accepting sequentially numbered warrants conferring seniority over later applicants. In 1723, by authority of

961-649: Was the Rev. William Sinclair , Prebendary of Chichester , 5th son of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet . and educated at Repton School and Balliol College, Oxford . Sinclair was ordained in 1876. His first post was as assistant minister at the Quebec Chapel, Marylebone after which he was resident chaplain to the Bishop of London . He was appointed vicar of St Stephen's, Westminster in 1880 and Archdeacon of London in 1889. In 1892 he succeeded Walter Purton as editor of

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