En: Robert Freke Gould
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Robert Freke Gould
1836 - March 26, 1915
A founding member and the second Master of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, London, Robert Freke Gould contributed twenty-five papers and many notes to Ars Quatuor Coronatorum.
A lieutenant in the 31st Regiment, English Army and later a barrister from 1868, he is best remembered as an early proponent of the authentic school of masonic research and for his three-volume History of Freemasonry (1883-1887).
History of Freemasonry Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs
An investigation of the records of the organizations of the fraternity in England, Scotland, Ireland, British Colonies, France, Germany, and the United States. Derived from official sources. Grandly illustrated. Contents of this volume: Ancient mysteries - the Essenes - Roman Collegia - the Culdees; Old charges of British Freemasons; Stonemasons (Steinmetzen) of Germany; Craft guilds (Corps d'Etat) of France; Companionage, or Les Compagnons du Tour de France; Mediaeval operative Masonry; Statutes relating to the Freemasons; Early British Freemasonry (Scotland); Masons' marks; Quatuor Coronati (Four Crowned or Four Holy Martyrs); Apocryphal manuscripts.
Charter Member
- Initiated : 1854
- Royal Navy Lodge No. 429, Ramsgate
- Affiliated: 1857
- Friendship Lodge, Gibraltar
- Worshipful Master: 1863
- Northern Lodge No. 570, China
- Senior Grand Deacon: 1880
- United Grand Lodge of England
