60 year Certificate presented to Past Provincial Grand Master RW Bro Michael Jones

17 January, 2018

Past Provincial Grand Master RW Bro Michael Jones was presented with a 60 year Certificate of Service to Freemasonry by PGM RW Bro Paul Gower at a recent meeting of Watford Lodge.

RW Bro Michael Jones was initiated into Watford Lodge No. 404 in 1957 and became Master in 1966 and again in 2000.

His first appointment in the Province was in 1973 to Provincial Senior Grand Warden. He was appointed Provincial Deputy Grand Director of Ceremonies in 1975, and Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies in 1977, an appointment he held until he became Assistant Provincial Grand Master in 1981.

In 1979 Michael was appointed to the active rank of Assistant Grand Registrar in Grand Lodge, being promoted to Deputy Grand Director of Ceremonies the following year, an appointment he held for three years.

He was elected to the Board of General Purposes of Grand Lodge in 1982 and served as an elected member for three years at the end of which he continued on the Board as one of the members appointed by the Grand Master. Whilst on the Board of General Purposes, Michael  served on most of its Committees. He was Chairman of the Library, Art and Publications Committee, and subsequently Chairman of the Procedure Committee.

In 1989, Michael was appointed Past Grand Sword Bearer in Grand Lodge entitling him to the prefix Very Worshipful, and in 1990 became a Grand Steward.

In the Province he was Master of Hertfordshire Masters’ Lodge No 4090 in 1984 and of White Star Lodge No. 8727 in 1985. On the death of VW Bro Geoffrey Pryke in March 1992, Michael was appointed Deputy Provincial Grand Master and in September he was installed as Provincial Grand Master by the Assistant Grand Master, the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Eglinton and Winton at Freemasons’ Hall.

Michael consecrated nine Lodges, Jubilee Lodge No. 9475, Stanborough Lodge No.9523, Herts Scots Lodge No.9527, Welwyn Viaduct Lodge No.9555, Burning Bush Lodge No.9608, Veritatem Lodge No.9615, Wormley St Laurence Lodge No.9621, Hartsbourne Lodge No.9680, Lodge Trust and Fear No 9698.

For further details of more long service accolades see the spring edition of Provincial News. If you have an article for possible inclusion in the magazine please email terry.mitchinson@outlook.com