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The 2024 Annual Meeting of the District Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees in Surrey will take place on Saturday 7th December...

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Welcome to the website for the District Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees in Surrey....

Which is part of the Order of the Allied Masonic Degrees of England and Wales and Districts and Councils Overseas.

The Order is governed by the Grand Council, headed by the Grand Master Thomas Firth Jackson, and administered from Mark Masons' Hall in London.

Meetings of this Order are intended to be happy and enjoyable occasions for persons who are genuinely interested in extending their knowledge of, and interest in, freemasonry in a wider context. Membership is open to any Freemason who is a member in good standing of a Lodge of Freemasons governed by the United Grand Lodge of England, and who is also a Mark Master Mason and a Companion of the Holy Royal Arch.

Should you wish to pursue your interest in the Order, please look through our website to find out even more info on this wonderful and happy degree in freemasonry. For further assistance and more information please contact the District Grand Secretary, by completing and submitting the Contact Us Form on this website.

If you are an Allied member visiting the site and there is something you would like added to our web site which you feel may be of interest to both yourself or other Surrey members please send and email to the District Grand Secretary.

With my kindest regards and best wishes,

R.W. Bro. John V. C. French

District Grand Prefect

The Companion Orders

The Allied Masonic Degrees

The vast majority of the ‘additional’ Degrees worked in England in the early part of the nineteenth century originally came under the patronage of Warrants granted by the ‘Antients’, who held that Craft Warrants entitled Lodges to work any Masonic Degree to which they had knowledge and members available who could work it. Upon the formation of the United Grand Lodge various groups of Degrees were gradually organised into separate Orders each with their own governing body.

By the end of that century a large number of unrelated Degrees of no direct interest to any grand body was still being worked in different parts of the country. In the late 1870’s it was agreed by the then Grand Secretaries of the Craft, Mark, and Ancient and Accepted Rite to establish a ‘Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees in England and Wales and the Colonies and Dependencies of the British Crown’. The headquarters are at Mark Masons’ Hall and every Candidate must be a Mark Master Mason and a Companion of The Holy Royal Arch.