{"id":127,"date":"2026-09-17T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ulsterlodge.co.uk\/index.php\/past-masters\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:13:39","slug":"past-masters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ulsterlodge.co.uk\/index.php\/past-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Masters of Ulster Lodge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LODGE ARCHIVE<\/p>\n\n\n

Past Masters of Ulster Lodge<\/h1>\n\n\n

The men who led Ulster Lodge No. 2972 from its foundation in 1903 to its Golden Jubilee year in 1953.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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This record is taken from the Lodge’s 1953 A Jubilee Review<\/em>. For readability, the main list gives names rather than every Masonic rank and distinction printed in the original booklet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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1903\u20131919<\/h2>
1903\u201304<\/dt>
A. E. W. MacCamley<\/dd><\/div>
1905<\/dt>
J. B. Crowe<\/dd><\/div>
1906<\/dt>
T. Dunwoody<\/dd><\/div>
1907<\/dt>
Dr H. Knox<\/dd><\/div>
1908<\/dt>
S. Crawford Hillis<\/dd><\/div>
1909<\/dt>
S. Barry<\/dd><\/div>
1910<\/dt>
A. H. T. Roulston<\/dd><\/div>
1911<\/dt>
Dr A. Holt<\/dd><\/div>
1912<\/dt>
W. A. Turpin<\/dd><\/div>
1913<\/dt>
Rev. Crawford Hillis<\/dd><\/div>
1914<\/dt>
C. Stuart<\/dd><\/div>
1915<\/dt>
H. J. Suche<\/dd><\/div>
1916<\/dt>
A. Houston<\/dd><\/div>
1917<\/dt>
R. J. Stevenson<\/dd><\/div>
1918<\/dt>
J. Henderson<\/dd><\/div>
1919<\/dt>
Sir R. A. McCall<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/section>\n

1920\u20131939<\/h2>
1920<\/dt>
R. A. McQuitty<\/dd><\/div>
1921<\/dt>
E. W. Evans<\/dd><\/div>
1922<\/dt>
H. A. McCann<\/dd><\/div>
1923<\/dt>
O. T. Wood<\/dd><\/div>
1924<\/dt>
J. K. Laughlin<\/dd><\/div>
1925<\/dt>
J. A. Morrison<\/dd><\/div>
1926<\/dt>
J. Black<\/dd><\/div>
1927<\/dt>
J. Kirkland<\/dd><\/div>
1928<\/dt>
H. L. Spratt<\/dd><\/div>
1929<\/dt>
A. N. Harper<\/dd><\/div>
1930<\/dt>
Dr E. A. Gregg<\/dd><\/div>
1931<\/dt>
J. E. MacDowell<\/dd><\/div>
1932<\/dt>
Major-General Sir Menus W. O’Keeffe<\/dd><\/div>
1933<\/dt>
D. Torrens<\/dd><\/div>
1934<\/dt>
J. N. Scott<\/dd><\/div>
1935<\/dt>
W. K. Johnston<\/dd><\/div>
1936<\/dt>
J. McKaig<\/dd><\/div>
1937<\/dt>
E. C. Evans<\/dd><\/div>
1938<\/dt>
S. H. Gault<\/dd><\/div>
1939<\/dt>
W. R. McWilliam<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/section>\n

1940\u20131952<\/h2>
1940<\/dt>
W. R. McWilliam<\/dd><\/div>
1941<\/dt>
Captain C. B. Falls<\/dd><\/div>
1942<\/dt>
Captain C. B. Falls<\/dd><\/div>
1943<\/dt>
H. C. McAllister<\/dd><\/div>
1944<\/dt>
Sqn\/Ldr A. W. Bentley<\/dd><\/div>
1945\u201346<\/dt>
Major-General W. Brooke-Purdon<\/dd><\/div>
1947<\/dt>
A. W. Jackson<\/dd><\/div>
1948<\/dt>
W. P. Wallace<\/dd><\/div>
1949<\/dt>
Lt.-Commander C. H. McCann<\/dd><\/div>
1950<\/dt>
W. S. Gunning<\/dd><\/div>
1951<\/dt>
W. Gilliland<\/dd><\/div>
1952<\/dt>
George McAndrew Brown<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/section>\n

Jubilee year: 1953<\/h2>
1953<\/dt>
G. McIldowie \u2014 Worshipful Master in the Jubilee year<\/span><\/dd><\/div><\/dl>

The 1953 booklet lists McIldowie as the serving Worshipful Master, so he was not yet described there as a Past Master.<\/p><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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More coming soon<\/h2>\n\n\n

We are continuing to transcribe and check the Lodge records after 1953. Later Past Masters will be added as the archive work progresses, together with individual biographies where the surviving records allow us to tell their stories properly.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LODGE ARCHIVE Past Masters of Ulster Lodge The men who led Ulster Lodge No. 2972 from its foundation in 1903 to its Golden Jubilee year in 1953. This record is taken from the Lodge’s 1953 A Jubilee Review. For readability, the main list gives names rather than every Masonic rank and distinction printed in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-127","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulsterlodge.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulsterlodge.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulsterlodge.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulsterlodge.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulsterlodge.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ulsterlodge.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulsterlodge.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}