Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 Tercentenary Conference on The History of Freemasonry Celebrating 300 Years of the Grand Lodge of England 1717 – 2017 Outline Programme Queens’ College, University of Cambridge 9 September - 11 September 2016 Friday 9 September DAY ONE ________________________________________________ CAMBRIDGE MASONIC HALL, BATEMAN STREET 10.45 TEA AND COFFEE AND SIGNING IN 11.30 SPECIAL MEETING OF QUATUOR CORONATI LODGE NO. 2076 All Brethren who are members of a Lodge under a Constitution recognised by the UGLE are welcome 11.55 LODGE CLOSED followed by 12.00 PRESENTATION OF 2016 PRESTONIAN LECTURE Dr Richard Berman Foundations: new light on the formation and early years of the Grand Lodge of England 1.00 LUNCH at the CAMBRIDGE MASONIC HALL, BATEMAN STREET _________________________________________________ QUEENS’ COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 2.30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Tea and Coffee and Biscuits 3.00 WELCOME ADDRESS Conference Chairman: Professor Aubrey Newman 3.30 - 5.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS (1& 2) Session 1: Illustrations of Masonry Session 2: Freemasonry in the Colonies FITZPATRICK HALL BOWETT ROOM Yasha Beresiner Richard Burch-Smith 300 Years of Masonic Caricatures Early Freemasonry in the British Colony of Demerary- Essequibo 1813-1835 Martin Cherry Michael Allan Illustrations of Masonry: the frontispieces of the Books Freemasonry in Mauritius of Constitutions, 1723 to 1819 5.00-5.30 BREAK Tea and Coffee and Biscuits 5.30 - 6.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS FITZPATRICK HALL John Hamill Regularity and Recognition in UGLE. 6.30 - 7:00 DRINKS RECEPTION – the College Gardens in fine weather, in cloister if wet. 7.00 - 7.30 DINNER - Cripps Dining Hall 7.30 - 11.00 COLLEGE BAR OPEN FREE EVENING IN CAMBRIDGE Saturday 10 September DAY TWO ________________________________ 8.00 - 9:00 BREAKFAST - Cripps Dining Hall (only for those staying overnight in college) 09.00 REGISTRATION DESK OPEN FOR NEW ARRIVALS 9.15 James Campbell - Introduction to Day Two FITZPATRICK HALL 09.30 - 10.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS FITZPATRICK HALL Dr James Daniel The UGLE’s Districts and daughter Grand Lodges, 1850-2017 10.30 - 10.45 BREAK Tea, Coffee, and Biscuits served in the College Bar 10.45 – 12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS (3 & 4) Session 3: Rise of the Provinces Session 4: Freemasonry in the US #1 FITZPATRICK HALL BOWETT ROOM Diane Clements John Cooper III Masonic Yearbooks and the development of Freemasonry and Nation-Building on the Pacific Coast: Provincial Identity The California Experience Aubrey Newman Aimee E. Newell The Evolution of the Province and the Provincial British Freemasonry Comes to the New World: The First Grand Lodge in English Freemasonry Ten Years of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts Gerald Reilly Mark Tabbert The Urbanisation of Harwich 1832-1914: George Washington, General Grand Master of Freemasons The Role of Freemasons in Particular. in the United States of America…or not? 12.30 - 1.30 LUNCH Cripps Dining Hall 1.30 - 2.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS (5, 6 & 7) Session 5: Session 6: Session 7: Higher Degrees in Freemasonry in the US #2 The Sun is Always at its Freemasonry Meridian FITZPATRICK HALL BOWETT ROOM ANGEVIN ROOM John Acaster Richard Berman Kent Henderson The Royal Arch before the Union and its The Social Origins of Freemasonry in the The Origins of Australian Freemasonry particular adoption among the Moderns Deep South Mike Kearsley Brian W Price John Belton Masonry in New Zealand My Brother – Just One More Degree? Prince Hall Masonry Richard Gan Hilary Stelling Kenneth Marcus The Full Spectrum of Freemasonry English Transfer-Printed Presentation A Brotherhood Of Constitutions – Pitchers in New England Lodges South And Southern Africa 1811 – 2017 2.45 - 3.00 BREAK Tea, Coffee, and Biscuits served in the College Bar 3.00 – 4.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS (8, 9 & 10) Session 8: Session 9: Session 10: Impacts and Perceptions Masonry in Asia, China, and Masonry in Italy, Russia and India Turkey FITZPATRICK HALL BOWETT ROOM ANGEVIN ROOM A Baker Anthony Atkinson Maxine Gilhuys and Lucio Artini Freemasonry in the Encyclopedia Britannica 250 Years of Freemasonry in Asia Tuscany at the beginning of the XVIII Century: the English Lodge in Florence Robert Cooper Lisa Hellman Antony Lentin The impact of the formation of the Grand The first lodge in China: an international hub A masonic utopia in the Russia of Catherine Lodge of England on Freemasonry in Scotland in 18th century Canton the Great Barry Hoffbrand Roeinton Khambatta Emanuela Locci Portrait of the first Noble Grand Master- Close Encounters of Different Kinds The first English Lodge in the Ottoman images of John, second Duke of Montagu Empire. The Oriental Lodge No. 687 4.15 - 4.30 BREAK Tea, Coffee, and Biscuits served in the College Bar 4.30 - 5.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS (11, 12 & 13) Session 11: Session 12: Session 13: Dukes and Kings Anti-Masonry and Italy Red Aprons, Mathematics and War FITZPATRICK HALL BOWETT ROOM ANGEVIN ROOM Paul Calderwood David J Peck Jonathan Dowson Royal Connection in the Twentieth Century 1940’s – Hitler, the greatest threat to English Jerusalem Lodge No 197 ( f.1731) Freemasonry John Wade Fabio Venzi Steven Smith Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Rulers of Freemasonry and the Catholic Church The early Eighteenth-century Masonic the Craft connections of Mathematical Instrument- maker Jonathan Sisson (1692-1749) Andreas C. Rizopoulos Demetrio Xoccato Michael Beacham Focusing on less known aspects of the life of Friendship and prejudice: the relations between Military visitors to Guernsey Augustus Duke of Sussex the United Grand Lodge of England and the Grand Orient of Italy 5.45 - 6.00 BREAK Tea, Coffee, and Biscuits served in the College Bar 6.00 - 7.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS FITZPATRICK HALL Dr Brent Morris The Impact of English Freemasonry on America and vice versa 7.00 - 7.30 BREAK To change for Dinner 7.30 FORMAL DRINKS RECEPTION Old Kitchens 8.00 - 10.00 FORMAL DINNER (Black Tie) Old Hall Guest of Honour: Jonathan Spence, Deputy Grand Master UGLE 10:00 COLLEGE BAR Open for After Dinner Drinks Sunday 11 September DAY THREE _____________________________ 8.00 - 9:00 BREAKFAST - Cripps Dining Hall (only for those staying overnight in college) 9.15 James Campbell - Introduction to Day Three FITZPATRICK HALL 09.30 - 10.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS (14 & 15) Session 14: Sources Session 15: Clubs, Constitutions, and Rituals FITZPATRICK HALL BOWETT ROOM Andreas Onnefors Jan Snoek The Freemasons’ Magazine 1793-1798 Preston’s Harodim Lectures and the UGLE Craft Rituals Róbert Péter Susan Sommers and Andrew Prescott Freemasonry in the eighteenth-century British press: James Anderson: a Child of His Times unmapped sources and novel research methods Susan Snell Yoshio Washizu The art of discovering Masonic history: how to find gems English Freemasonry – A Product of Club Movement? among the archives at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry 10.45 - 11.00 BREAK Tea/Coffee and Biscuits 11.00 - 12:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS FITZPATRICK HALL Professor Andrew Prescott – in association with Dr Susan Sommers Searching for the Apple Tree 12.00 FAREWELL Conference Chairman: Professor Aubrey Newman .