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Gallery Lodge
The Gallery Lodge is one of two Masonic lodges within the UK Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative supremac .... The core of its membership are journalists accredited to Parliament. It is the only lodge that is exclusively for journalists. Representative British Freemasons, by Kessinger Publishing Company References See also * Alfred Farthing Robbins Masonic Lodges ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masonic Lodges
A Masonic lodge, often termed a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry. It is also commonly used as a term for a building in which such a unit meets. Every new lodge must be warranted or chartered by a Grand Lodge, but is subject to its direction only in enforcing the published constitution of the jurisdiction. By exception the three surviving lodges that formed the world's first known grand lodge in London (now merged into the United Grand Lodge of England) have the unique privilege to operate as ''time immemorial'', i.e., without such warrant; only one other lodge operates without a warrant – the Grand Stewards' Lodge in London, although it is not also entitled to the "time immemorial" title. A Freemason is generally entitled to visit any lodge in any jurisdiction (i.e., under any Grand Lodge) in amity with his own. In some jurisdictions this privilege is restricted to Master Masons (that is, Freemasons who have attained the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Parliament
The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the UK and the overseas territories. Parliament is bicameral but has three parts, consisting of the sovereign ( King-in-Parliament), the House of Lords, and the House of Commons (the primary chamber). In theory, power is officially vested in the King-in-Parliament. However, the Crown normally acts on the advice of the prime minister, and the powers of the House of Lords are limited to only delaying legislation; thus power is ''de facto'' vested in the House of Commons. The House of Commons is an elected chamber with elections to 650 single-member constituencies held at least every five years under the first-past-the-post system. By constitutional convention, all governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Madden
Maxwell Francis Madden (born 29 October 1941) is a British journalist and Labour Party politician. Parliamentary career Madden unsuccessfully fought Sudbury and Woodbridge in 1966, coming second. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sowerby at the February 1974 election, which he lost to the Conservatives in 1979. From 1983 until 1997, he was MP for Bradford West before being deselected and replaced as Labour candidate by Marsha Singh Marsha Singh (11 October 1954 – 17 July 2012) was a British Labour Party politician, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West from 1997 to 2012. Singh stood down due to ill health. Singh had a degree in Languages, Politics and Eco .... References * External links * 1941 births Living people British male journalists Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Transport and General Workers' Union-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1983–1987 UK MPs 1987–1992 UK MP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford South (UK Parliamentary Constituency)
Bradford South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Judith Cummins of the Labour Party. Constituency profile The seat covers the southern suburbs of Bradford from Queensbury to Holmewood and has a large South Asian population.UK Polling Report http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/bradfordsouth/ Boundaries 1918–1950: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Great Horton, Lister Hills, Little Horton, North Bierley East, and North Bierley West. 1950–1955: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Clayton, Great Horton, Lister Hills, North Bierley West, and Thornton. 1955–1974: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Clayton, North Bierley East, North Bierley West, and West Bowling, and the Urban District of Queensbury and Shelf. 1974–1983: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Clayton, Great Horton, Odsal, Tong, Wibsey, and Wyke, and the Urban District of Queensbury and Shelf. 1983–2010: The City of Bradford war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Farthing Robbins
Sir Alfred Farthing Robbins ( Launceston 1 August 1856 - 9 March 1931) was a British journalist, political biographer and freemason. Career He was initiated in 1888 in Gallery Lodge No. 1928, which catered for members of the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, and in 1901 became Master of that lodge. As President of the Board of General Purposes from 1913 until his death, he was described as "the Prime Minister of English Freemasonry". London correspondent of the Birmingham Daily Post since 1888, he was president of the Institute of Journalists in 1908, and has been chairman of its Orphan Fund since 1911. He received a knighthood in 1917. His portrait, painted by Philip Tennyson Cole, presented by the Institute of Journalists in 1931, is kept at Launceston Guildhall and Town Hall. He was a member of the National Liberal Club. He married Ellen Pitt (born 1862 in Hitchin Hitchin () is a market town and unparished area in the North Hertfordshire Districts of England, dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
