Waite Appendix A

A. E. Waite’s Masonic Affiliations

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CRAFT

1901 Initiated in Runymede Lodge No. 2430, Wraysbury, 19 September

Raised in St. Marylebone Lodge No. 1305, London, 10 February 1902
Master of Runymede Lodge 1910-11, Installed 21 July 1910

1906 Founder Member of Anglo-Colonial Lodge No. 3175 (resigned in June 1912)

1914 Provincial Deputy Grand Director of Ceremonies, Buckinghamshire, 28 October

1918 Honorary Past Senior Grand Warden, Grand Lodge of Iowa, A.F. & A.M. (U.S.A.) 11 June

1921 Founder Member and Deputy Vice-President of the Masonic Study Society (resigned in 1924)

ROYAL ARCH

1902 Exalted in Metropolitan Chapter No. 1507, London, 1 May

First Principal in 1913

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE

1909 Perfected in Orpheus Chapter Rose Croix No. 79, London, 17 November

Sovereign 1915
Recorder 1919-36(?)

1935 30th Degree 12 November

MARK MASONRY

1905 Advanced in Temperance in the East Mark Lodge No. 350 (The name changed afterwards to Emblematic Mark Lodge) 18 January

Master in 1912
Honorary Member from 1937

1913 Appointed Grand Inner Guard, Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons

1930 Founder and First Master of Tower Hamlets Mark Lodge No. 892, London

Honorary Member from 1936

1931 Promoted to Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies, Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons

ORDER OF THE TEMPLE

1902 Installed as a Knight Templar in King Edward VII Preceptory No. 173, London, 8 May

1906 Joining Member of Empress Preceptory No. 178, London

Joining Member and Founder of Sancta Maria Preceptory No. 183, London
Preceptor in 1909
Registrar 1910 to 1940

1912 Appointed Great Captain of Guards, Great Priory

1928 Promoted to Past Great Aide-de-Camp, Great Priory

ORDER OF MALTA

1902 Installed in St. George's Priory No. 6, London, 9 May

RED CROSS OF CONSTANTINE

1907 Installed as a Knight of Constantine, Rose and Lily Conclave No. 3, London, 19 June

Viceroy 1910
Sovereign 1911

1912 Grand Standard Bearer, Grand Imperial Conclave

1913 Grand Historiographer, Grand Imperial Conclave

SECRET MONITOR

1906 Zacharie Conclave No. 9, London, 4 October

Prince of the Order 1908
Supreme Ruler 1912

OTHER RITES AND DEGREES

RÉGIME ECOSSAIS ET RECTIFIÉ

1903 Chevalier Bienfaisant de la Cité Sainte, Installed at Geneva, 28 February

SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

1902 Hermes Lodge and Temple No. 8, London, 30 August

SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANA IN ANGLIA

1902 Admitted to Zelator grade in the Metropolitan College, London, 10 April

Chairman of Study Circle 1903 (resigned 1914)

WORSHIPFUL SOCIETY OF FREEMASONS, ROUGH MASONS, WALLERS, SLATERS, PAVIORS, PLASTERERS, & BRICKLAYERS

1916 Admitted as Fellow of the Craft of Operative Freemasons, &c, in Channel Row

Assembly, Westminster Division, 9 February (resigned 22 October 1917)

EARLY GRAND SCOTTISH RITE

1903 Knight Templar Priest 41º, at the Moira Union Council No. 2, Kilmarnock, February

NATIONAL MASONIC RESEARCH SOCIETY (U.S.A.)

1915 Honorary Life Member, 2 January

SOCIETY OF BLUE FRIARS [OF MASONIC AUTHORS] (U.S.A.)

1938 Fellow No. 8

PHILALETHES SOCIETY (U.S.A.)

1936 Fellow No. 5 (replacing Rudyard Kipling who was Fellow No. 40)

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