Lodge St George

First Degree - Mr Scott Merson

 

Another great candidate at Lodge St George. Last night Scott Merson was initiated into our lodge. Scott is sixth generation Freemason with deep Scottish Masonic roots. To make the evening more special, his father Bill, a member of Thistle Lodge, was also able to attend.

At the end of the evening Scott met Chris Potts who had also taken his First degree last night at Duke of Leinster Lodge. Scott and Chris then posed for a pic with the Grand Master, MW Bro Gary Bacon, who was attending the Combined Irish Night at the Duke of Leinster.

A second Founder's Jewel found

The Grand Master, at one of his professional Forestry meetings, met a person who told him that a colleague had mentioned Masons in her family. A bit more probing found that her great grandfather was Charles Robert Morton – one of our Founders, member No 3 and our first Substitute Master (an old Scottish lodge position). He was Headmaster of Yeronga State School.

I contacted her recently and amazingly she has 3 of Charles Morton's jewels. More amazingly one is a Founder's Jewel. Identical to our CH Deane Jewel (our Founding Junior Deacon) except for the office symbol on the ribbon.

A wonderful find I'm sure you'll agree. The colour discrepancy comes from the different cameras and lighting plus the timeworn nature of the other jewel and ribbon. We thought only one Founder's Jewel survived the past 100 years. Are there others out there?