{"id":54,"date":"2025-11-24T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trlodge.org.uk\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:35:56","slug":"past-masters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/past-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No.<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nForename<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nName<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nMaster<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nMembership<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nChristopher<\/td>\nHicks<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nJulian Fitzgerald<\/td>\nSmith<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAnthony Patrick<\/td>\nCurtis<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\nHonorary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nGeorge Edward<\/td>\nKing<\/td>\n2010<\/td>\nDeceased<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nIan Vance<\/td>\nJones<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nGordon Kenneth<\/td>\nHarwood<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nKeith Barry<\/td>\nSims<\/td>\n2013<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nPeter Michael<\/td>\nBurch<\/td>\n2014<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nStephen John<\/td>\nHatton<\/td>\n2015<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nRonald<\/td>\nCarr<\/td>\n2016\/2017<\/td>\nDeceased<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nDavid Josiah<\/td>\nFage<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nHugh William<\/td>\nHessing<\/td>\n2019\/2020\/2021<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nMark Alexander<\/td>\nWaddoups<\/td>\n2022\/2023<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nRichard Charles<\/td>\nMathews<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nPeter Michael<\/td>\nBurch<\/td>\n2025<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nGordon Kenneth<\/td>\nHarwood<\/td>\n2026<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

First Master \u2013 W Bro Chris Hicks PProvGStwd<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At the Consecration meeting, Friday 16th March 2007 at Saxon Hall, Southend on Sea, Essex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Second Master \u2013 W Bro Julian Smith PProvJGD<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Julian Smith PPJGD, 2nd Worshipful Master 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Third Master \u2013 W Bro Tony Curtis PProvGStwd<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Tony Curtis PProvGStwd, 3rd Worshipful Master 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fourth Master \u2013 W Bro George King<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro George King 4th Worshipful Master 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fifth Master \u2013\u00a0W Bro Ian Jones PPDepGSwdB<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Ian Jones PPDepGSwdB, 5th Worshipful Master 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sixth Master \u2013 W Bro Gordon Harwood<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Gordon Harwood, 6th Worshipful Master 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seventh Master \u2013 W Bro Keith Sims PPGSwdB (W Kent)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Keith Sims PPGSwdB (W Kent), 7th Worshipful Master 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eighth Master \u2013 W Bro Peter \u00a0Burch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Peter Burch, 8th Worshipful Master 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ninth Master \u2013 W Bro Stephen Hatton PPJGD<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Stephen Hatton PPJGD, 9th Worshipful Master 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tenth Master \u2013 W Bro Ronald Carr PPJGW<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Ronald Carr PPJGW, 10th Worshipful Master 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 & 2017<\/p>\n

Eleventh Master – W Bro Dave Fage
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\nW Bro Dave Fage PPJGW, 11th Worshipful Master 2018<\/p>\n

Twelfth Master – W Bro Hugh Hessing<\/strong>\"\"<\/p>\n

W Bro Hugh Hessing, PProvJGD, 12th Worshipful Master 2019 & 2020 & 2021<\/p>\n

Thirteenth Master – W Bro Mark Waddoups,<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Mark Waddoups, 13th Worshipful Master 2022 & 2023<\/p>\n

Fourteenth Master – W Bro Richard Mathews<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Richard Mathews PPJGW, 14th Worshipful Master 2024<\/p>\n

Fifteenth Master – W Bro Peter Burch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Peter Burch, PPDepGSwdB, 15th Worshipful Master 2025<\/p>\n

Sixteenth Master – W Bro Gordon Harwood<\/strong><\/p>\n

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W Bro Gordon Harwood PPJGD,<\/p>\n

16th Worshipful Master 2026<\/p>\n

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  No. Forename Name Master Membership 1 Christopher Hicks 2007 2 Julian Fitzgerald Smith 2008 3 Anthony Patrick Curtis 2009 Honorary 4 George Edward King 2010 Deceased 5 Ian Vance…<\/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-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemlodge.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}