Distinguished Brethren

 

W. Bro. James S. Fisher PPSGD
In 1935 W. Bro. James S. Fisher became the first member of Glandore to receive Provincial Grand Lodge Honors when he was invested Senior Grand Deacon.

R. W. Bro. J. Stafford O’ Neill PPJGW
Described as one of this centuries greatest ritualists, R. W. Bro. J. Stafford O’ Neill occupied the chair in Glandore in 1932 and the minutes record that in September 1933 he conferred the first Degree on F. N. McTier. In 1938 R. W. Bro. O’Neill was appointed to represent the Lodge at the committee of inspection and in 1945 he was appointed Provincial Junior Grand Warden. In 1949, the Lodges silver jubilee year, Stafford became a Grand Lodge of Ireland Inspector and in 1954, Chairman of the Inspection Committee for Antrim and in the same year he was appointed to the grand Lodge of Ireland as representative to the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. Finally in 1959 he became Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Inspection for the province of Antrim.

V. W. Bro. Cecil Adrain PPSGW
Initiated in Glandore Lodge on 20th May 1948 V. W. Bro. Adrain was peerless in his dedication to Freemasonry. He became W. Master of Glandore in 1971. Having already served as assistant secretary since 1964, Cecil became Secretary of the Lodge in 1973. He had a passion and a real talent for degree work and many of our current Brethren received one or all of their degrees from this skilled workman. In 1980 Brother Adrain was installed Provincial Senior Grand Warden. V. W. Bro. Adrian resigned as secretary in 1987.