The District Grand Lodge of Bengal is a Masonic Lodge in India under the United Grand Lodge of England, based out of Freemasons Hall, Park Street, Kolkata (19 Mother Teressa Sarani ).
The District Grand Lodge of Bengal has exercised authority over freemasonry under the UGLE in India since 1729, when Captain Ralph Farrwinter, an officer of the East India Company, was appointed Provincial Grand Master for East India in Bengal, and warranted the first Indian lodge East India Arms, No. 72, based in Fort William, Calcutta (Firminger 6).
Members of the District Grand Lodge of Bengal were some of the biggest figures of the British Raj.
Emir of Afghanistan It was the scene of the induction of Emir Habibullah Khan IV of Afghanistan by Lord Kitchener and Sir William Burkitt on 1 Feb 1907. An account of this highly unusual event was written at the time by Sir Henry McMahon.
District Grandmasters +List of District GrandmastersYearDistrict Grandmaster1862H. D. Sandeman1873J. Pitt Kennedy (acting)1875J. Blessington Robertss:Dictionary of Indian Biography/Roberts, John Blessington1877J. Pitt Kennedy1879Henry Thoby Prinsep1897Brigadier General A. G. Yeatman-Biggs1898Henry Thoby Prinsep1904Sir W. R. Burkitt (judge)1908Sir John Stanley1911Sir Lawrence Jenkins1913Baron Carmichael1917Earl of Ronaldshay1923Sir W. J. Reid1926Henry Rivers Nevill1930Sir Eric Studd1938Charles Carey Morgan1940Archibald Barr-Pollock1954Frank Carlile Kidd1960K. B. Large1966Donald Fordwood1972A. M. Adams1982Vahan Poladian1988Archibald Israel Edwards1994L. O. H. de Silva1998Iqbal Ahmed2012K. S. David
Lodges
Lodge No.Lodge NameLocation67Star in the EastCalcutta438Lodge of HarmonyKanpur486The St. John's LodgeCalcutta1490PioneerAsansol1865True FreemasonryCalcutta2037PrincepCalcutta2871FederationCalcutta3054CalcuttaCalcutta3351United DooarsCalcutta3618TemplarCalcutta3865TiscoJamshedpur4229St. AndrewKulti4594MymensinghCalcutta4814DariusCalcutta5817Bengal MastersCalcutta6746MartiniereCalcutta6931Light in AndamansPort Blair8194Kathmandu of NepalKathmandu, Nepal
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