Old Hymerian Lodge 6885

Provincial Appointments & Promotions

Jun11
2013 Written by webmaster

The Old Hymerian Lodge is proud to congratulate Very Worshipful Brother Jeff Gillyon on his promotion to Provincial Grandmaster for the Province of Yorkshire North and East Riding

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Famous Masons

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL 22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 1845 – 19 September 1905) was a philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children, born in Dublin. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1870 to the date of Barnardo’s death, nearly 100,000 children had been rescued.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE FRGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), Sculptor of New York's Statue of Liberty. Lodge Alsace-Lorraine, Paris.

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