The Masonic Career of A.E. Waite

Appendix A

A. E. WAITE’s MASONIC AFFILIATIONS

CRAFT

1901                Initiated in Runymede Lodge No. 2430, Wraysbury, 19 September

(Raised in St. Marylebone Lodge No. 1305, London, 10 February 1902) Master of Runymede Lodge 1910-11, Installed 21 July 1910

1906         Founder Member of Anglo-Colonial Lodge No. 3175 (resigned in June 1912)

1914         Provincial Deputy Grand Director of Ceremonies, Buckinghamshire, 28 October

1918         Honorary Past Senior Grand Warden, Grand Lodge of Iowa, A.F. & A.M. (U.S.A.) 1 1 June

1921         Founder Member and Deputy Vice-President of the Masonic Study Society (resigned in 1924)

ROYAL ARCH

1902 Exalted in Metropolitan Chapter No. 1507, London, 1 May

              First Principal in 1913

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE

1909 Perfected in Orpheus Chapter Rose Croix No. 79, London, 17 November

       Sovereign 1915

Recorder 1919-36(?)

1935 30th Degree 12 November

MARK MASONRY

1905         Advanced in Temperance in the East Mark Lodge No. 350 (The name changed afterwards to Emblematic Mark Lodge) 18 January

            Master in 1912

            Honorary Member from 1937

1913         Appointed Grand Inner Guard, Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons

1930         Founder and First Master of Tower Hamlets Mark Lodge No. 892, London

            Honorary Member from 1936

1931         Promoted to Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies, Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons

ORDER OF THE TEMPLE

   1902    Installed as a Knight Templar in King Edward VII Preceptory No. 173, London, 8 May

1906         Joining Member of Empress Preceptory No. 178, London

            Joining Member and Founder of Sancta Maria Preceptory No. 183, London

            Preceptor in 1909

            Registrar 1910 to 1940

1912         Appointed Great Captain of Guards, Great Priory

1928         Promoted to Past Great Aide-de-Camp, Great Priory

ORDER OF MALTA

   1902 Installed in St. George’s Priory No. 6, London, 9 May

RED CROSS OF CONSTANTINE

1907         Installed as a Knight of Constantine, Rose and Lily Conclave No. 3, London, 19 June Viceroy 1910

            Sovereign 1911

1912    Grand Standard Bearer, Grand Imperial Conclave

1913    Grand Historiographer, Grand Imperial Conclave

SECRET MONITOR

   1906    Zacharie Conclave No. 9, London, 4 October

          Prince of the Order 1908

   Supreme Ruler 1912

OTHER RITES  AND DEGREES

RAGIME ECOSSAIS ET RECTIFIE

1903             Chevalier Bienfaisant de la Cite Sainte, Installed at Geneva, 28 February

SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

1902    Hermes Lodge and Temple No. 8, London, 30 August

SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANA IN ANGLIA

1902             Admitted to Zelator grade in the Metropolitan College, London, 10 April

              Chairman of Study Circle 1903 (resigned 1914)

WORSHIPFUL SOCIETY OF FREEMASONS, ROUGH MASONS, WALLERS, SLATERS, PAVIORS, PLASTERERS, & BRICKLAYERS

1916             Admitted as Fellow of the Craft of Operative Freemasons, &c, in Channel Row

              Assembly, Westminster Division, 9 February (resigned 22 October 1917)

EARLY GRAND SCOTTISH RITE

1903    Knight Templar Priest 41º, at the Moira Union Council No. 2, Kilmarnock, February

NATIONAL MASONIC RESEARCH SOCIETY (U.S.A.)

1915             Honorary Life Member, 2 January

SOCIETY OF BLUE FRIARS [OF MASONIC AUTHORS] (U.S.A.)

1938    Fellow No. 8

PHILALETHE.S SOCIETY (U.S.A.)

1936    Fellow No. 5 (replacing Rudyard Kipling who was Fellow No. 40)