The original name for the lodge was the London Rotary
Lodge and it was to meet at the Holborn Restaurant. There is another
letter in the petition papers, in which the petitioners agree to a
suggestion from the Grand
Master that the lodge be called the Rotarian Lodge,
opening it to all members of Rotary, not just those in the London club.
The lodge is still going strong and now meets at Freemasons Hall in
Great Queen Street.
This is not the only Rotary lodge under the United Grand
Lodge of England and it was not the first. The first was the Nottingham
Rotary Lodge No.3941, formed in 1919 and mentioned in the Dewey letter.
Another was the
North Notts Rotary Lodge (see below). in more recent
times there have been five other Rotary Lodges, the Rotary Lodge of
Suffolk No. 9306, East Lancashire Rotary Lodge No. 9359, Rotary Lodge of
Norfolk No. 9367,
Rotarian Lodge of Hong Kong No. 9378 and Rotary Lodge of
Hampshire No. 9389. These last five have all been formed in the last
twenty years.
Older Rotarians have said that there used to be Rotary
Clubs that only accepted Masons as members. However, an edict came down
sometime in the
late 1930s from R.I. that quietly instructed such clubs
to admit non-masonic members or they would lose their charters. After
WW II, it was found that there were no Rotary clubs that were excluding
possible members
due to their membership in other organzations apart from
those in other service clubs, something which was already prohibited in
the manual of procedure.
Interestingly, Round Table Lodges are far more common
today. Nearly every Province has a Round Table lodge and some have more
than one.
RGHF Senior Historian
Basil Lewis
with information supplied by the Librarian at the
Library and Museum of Freemasonry in London, and with assistance from
Senior Historian,
Dr. Wolfgang
Ziegler 17 October 2003, revised 2 May 2007
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