Lord Kitchener

[Humber]

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Lord Kitchener Lodge No 2767 Consecrated 1899 and meeting at Gt. Queens St. London.

The image is a black and white enamel photograph of Lord Kitchener.

Lord Kitchener had served the British army for 27 years before he became a national hero after leading the army in its successful reclamation of the Sudan in 1898. This lodge was formed at the height of his popularity hence their adoption of his name.

Edited March 8, 2006 by Humber

[Tom King]

Nice Jewel ! I know he was an active freemason but was Kitchener a member of this lodge or was it found in his name only ?

[Humber]

Nice Jewel ! I know he was an active freemason but was Kitchener a member of this lodge or was it found in his name only ?

No he was not a member

Lodges named after Kitchener:

Seven Lodges were named after Kitchener, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum Lodge No. 2767, London; Kitchener Lodge No. 2998 (Founder member), New Delhi, East Punjab; Lord Kitchener Lodge No. 3402, Dhekelia, Cyprus, formerly Cairo; Lord Kitchener Lodge No. 3788, Bolton, Lancashire. Lodge Kitchener No. 240 of the United Grand Lodge of Victoria, Australia.

There was a further two in Australia, both are now erased (no longer meeting). Lodge Earl Kitchener No. 308 in the Constitution of New South Wales, Australia and also an Earl Kitchener Mark Lodge No. 43 under the Constitution of the Grand Mark Lodge of Victoria, Australia.

Have a look at link:-

www.mqmagazine.co.uk/issue-12/ p-09.php?

From Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry :

His Mother Lodge, British Union, No. 114 was founded at Ipswich, England, in 1762. He was a founder member of the following: Drury Lane Lodge, No.2127, founded in 1885; Khartoum Lodge, No.2877, founded in 1901; Kitchener Lodge, No. 2998, founded at Simla, Punjaub, in 1903.

Brother Lord Kitchener was District Grand Master of Egypt and Sudan in 1899; District Grand Master of the Punjaub in 1902; Junior Grand Warden of England in 1916. "Brother Kitchener possessed great talents as a linguist in Oriental languages which stood him in good stead in his Masonic work, and this, coupled with his strength of character and power and skill as a soldier, made him a man who was loved by all his men and by the entire English-speaking world and one of whom the Masonic Fraternity is justly proud"

Edited March 11, 2006 by Humber

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Jewels from two other Lodges named in his honour:

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[Humber]

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Members jewel for the 'British Union Lodge No 114', Kitchener's Mother Lodge.

Humber,

Please don't take this the wrong way, but reference to the MQ Magazine you highlighted says:

Kitchener was 33 when he was initiated, almost certainly, in the Italian-speaking La Concordia Lodge No. 1226 in Cairo in 1883. Some doubt as to the Lodge at which he was initiated has arisen as a result of hand annotations in the records of the listing of Grand Officers in Grand Lodge in England.

The annotation states:

`presumed to have been initiated in Star in (sic) the East Lodge 1355 Egyptian Grand Lodge in 1883, OR if not there, in La Concordia No. 1226'.

This error may have been brought about by Kitchener's details in the petitioner's warrant for the Drury Lane Lodge No. 2127 referred to below. La Concordia Lodge, consecrated with a group of other Lodges in 1868, was sadly erased in 1890 and there are no surviving records.

I'm a little confused by my misunderstanding

WM5806

Edited March 12, 2006 by wm5806