Team Visit to de l’Isle Adam Priory No 234 at Chester; 27th March 2014

The happy smiling faces as we again did a Team visit to a Preceptory working a Malta ceremony.

The Provincial Prior and a large number of his Provincial team were pleased to witness Em Kt Eric Dixon and his team install Kts Peter Wilson, Gary Oates and Anthony Speer into the Malta degree and then install Em Kt Keith Smith as Eminent Prior for the ensuing year.

Many Provinces have a separate Provincial Malta Meeting and this is something the General Purposes Committee might consider for the future.

Promotions

What do we do if we have had a Past Preceptor in the Chair when the request for Nominations

comes?

As was explained in Newsletter No 1, there is no ceiling on numbers for Promotions in Provincial Rank. Providing your IPP is not already a Past Provincial Constable, the Provincial Prior will be pleased to consider promoting him to mark his further contribution to the Orders.

As you read this we will be gearing up for the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Province and it will be one year since my Installation as Provincial Prior. On 30th May I will attend the Installation meeting of Croes Newydd Preceptory in Wrexham and this will complete a full set of visits to the 19 Preceptories in the Province. I will also have been twice to the Grand Master’s Preceptory in London and to eleven other Provinces and to the Constitution of the Great Priory of the Netherlands. I am grateful to all the Knights in the Province and to all my colleague Provincial Priors for the warm welcomes I have received.

Next year I am planning four Team Visits and also visits to about 6 other Preceptories but I may do more.

I wish you all a restful Summer and look forward to seeing many of you at the Church Service and the Sunday Luncheon.

Doesn’t time go quickly?

CONGRATULATIONS

Appointment to, or Promotion in Provincial Priory is an important mile-stone in a Knight’s career. I have previously explained how the system works and, inside this Issue, there is a list of this year’s appointees. I have been pleased to promote two Knights to a higher Active Rank to mark the contribution they have made to the Orders. I have also appointed a second Deputy Provincial Marshal. As now happens in the equivalent ranks in the Craft, I have promoted the Past Provincial 2nd Constables who held active rank to Past 1st Constable. I have also been delighted to appoint a Knight who has not been through the chair to a Past Provincial Rank in recognition of his long a dedicated service to his Preceptory.

I congratulate all the Knights on this year’s list and I wish them good health to enjoy their new ranks. A full list is on Page 3.

Provincial Priory of Cheshire & North Wales

May 2014 Issue No. 3

K T Newsletter

Fact Box

With regards to dress it

is incorrect to wear

Malta regalia in a

meeting of the Order of

the Temple (statutes

167 to 179) however it

permissible to wear the

regalia of a Knight of

the Order of the Temple

in the Priory (statute

183).

Inside this issue:

Doesn’t time go quickly?

1

Congratulations 1

Meet the Marshal 2

Did You Know? 2

Provincial Ties 2

Provincial Prior’s Diary

3

2014 Appointments and Promotions

3

TELEPHONE

07411 183851

CONTACT E MAIL

vc@cheshireandnorthwaleskt.org.uk

Bodyguard

de l’Isle Adam

Team Visit

3

4

POSTAL ADDRESS

Provincial Chancery, c/o Network House

St Ives Way, Sandicroft, Deeside, CH5 2QS

WEBSITE

www.cheshireandnorthwaleskt.org.uk

Eminent Knight Philip Broadhurst has been married to Ursula for 48 years in August of this year, they have two sons Paul, a Detective Inspector in the local constabulary, and An-drew who is in the furniture retail trade. There are 6 grandchildren with both sons each having two boys and a girl. Philip worked in the railway industry from 1962 until he finally retired in 2012, a career spanning 50 years in Railway Signal Engineering.

Philip was installed as a Knight Templar in Temple Preceptory No 326 in 1986, acted as Registrar from 1990 to 1993 and became Preceptor in 1994 and following a 2 year spell as Deputy Marshal was appointed Marshal in 1998, a position he retained until 2007. He was appointed Provincial Herald in 1996 and promoted to Provincial 2nd Constable in 1999. He became Deputy Provincial Marshal in 2005 and was appointed Provincial Marshal in 2010. In Great Priory Philip was appointed Past Gt A de C in 2003 and Past Gt Herald in 2010.

Philip’s Masonic career began in the South Cheshire Lodge in 1972 achieving the chair in 1984. He is a member of a number of orders other than the Knights Templar, these include the Royal Arch, Mark, RAM, Rose Croix, Red Cross and KTP. He has had preferment in most of the orders including PAGDC in the Craft, PGStdB in the Royal Arch, PProvGInspWks in the Mark, 31st Degree in Rose Croix, Divisional Herald in Red Cross and Past GVII Pillar in Knights Templar Priests. This particular Order provided Philip with one the highlights of his Masonic career when, as GV Pillar, he was part of the conse-cration team that went to Brazil and Bolivia as well as Germany, to consecrate new Tabernacles.

His role as Provincial Marshal is to ensure that

the standard of ceremonial within the Province

is maintained to the high standard that our

predecessors have set for us in our long and

illustrious history and to provide any assis-

tance in matters of ritual and protocol so that

each and every one of us may continue to en-

joy membership of this wonderful Christian

Order.

Meet the Provincial Marshal Did You Know?

STATUTE 69(1) “No Knight shall be eligible for the office of Preceptor except by Dispensation from the Grand Master unless he shall at the time of his Installation have been duly invested and served for the space of a full year in the office of Constable..........................”

An interpretation of this Statute has been obtained from Great Priory who have stated that “full year” means from one Installation until the next, so if an Installation date is moved due to a change in Bylaws so that a First Constable serves less than 12 months in that office and has not previously served as a Second Constable he is deemed to have served for a full year in the same way as Statute 69(2) ie if the Installation is moved by Dispen-sation.

In addition, If a Preceptor’s Installation is delayed under the provisions of STATUTE 70(3) both he and the Officers he appoints at the later date will be deemed to

have served a full year STATUTE 69(3)

Provincial Ties

The new Provincial Ties are available at £10 each from the Provincial Prior, Sub-Prior or Vice Chancellor. They bear the new Provincial emblem of the Wheatsheaves and Red Dragon and also the black & white bars representing the Malta degree. They can be worn by any member of the Province at any KT meeting.

The first 200 ties have been sold and a fur-ther 100 have arrived.

It is the Provincial Prior’s wish that all cur-rent members of the Provincial team wear the tie.

Provincial Prior’s Diary 2013/14

2013

June 1—Installation & AGM; Christleton June 3—Royal Edward Installation June 15—Province of Warwickshire July 3—Church Service; Christleton July 9—Grand Master’s Preceptory; London July 16—Provincial GP Committee July 18– Lincolnshire Prior’s Installation July 28– Provincial Luncheon Sept 16– Province of Oxford, Berks & Bucks Sept 19– Geoffroy de Bouillon Installation Sept 20– Team Visit to Faith & Hope Sept 21– Province of Northumberland Sept 30– Province of London Oct 14– Provincial Prior’s Conference; London Oct 22– Provincial Executive Oct 23– Palestine Installation Oct 26– Province of West Yorkshire Nov 7—Combined Malta Meeting at Sandbach Nov 9– Province of North & East Yorkshire Nov 14– De Tabley Nov 19– Great Priory of Malta; Edgbaston Nov 23– Great Priory of The Netherlands Nov 28– Team Visit to St Salem Dec 3– Grosvenor

2014 Jan 3– Charity Installation Jan 11– St Hilary Installation Jan 13– St George Feb 3– Temple Installation Feb 10– Province of Leicester & Rutland Feb 11—Provincial GP Committee Feb 20– St Werburgh Mar 22– Love & Friendship Mar 27– Team Visit to De L’Isle Adam Apr 7– Menai Installation Apr 14– Grand Master’s Preceptory; London Apr 26– Province of Durham May 10– Province of Lancashire May 15– Team visit to St David’s (New venue) May 21– Great Priory; Great Queen Street, London May 22– Northwich May 23– Llewellyn Fawr Malta Meeting May 30– Croes Newydd Installation June 2– Province of Staffordshire& Shropshire June 7– Provincial AGM June 19– St Werburgh Installation June 24– Province of Derbyshire. June 26—Province of Hertfordshire June 28—Province of Warwickshire

It has been announced that due to closure of the Edgbaston Clarendon Suites, the Great Priory Meeting on 21 May 2014 will be held at Freemason’s Hall, Great Queen Street, Lon-don. Start time is 12.30pm. Knights attending do NOT need to bring swords. The Malta meeting in November will also be at Great

Queen Street.

Great Priory

2014 Appointments

Sub-Prior Alan Pierce 100 Prelate Barry Jobber 558 Chancellor John Lightfoot 100 1st Constable Eric Porter 15 2nd Constable Stan Rawcliffe 231 Treasurer Glyn Hewitt 605 Registrar Jon Clipsham 327 Vice Chancellor Peter Carroll 584 Marshal Phillip Broadhurst 327 Deputy Marshal Bill Caren 326 Deputy Marshal Fraser Fowlie 605 Almoner Arfon Pritchard 603 Herald Peter Butler 603 Herald Bill Sibbald 272 Standard Bearer (B) Godfrey Marsh 454 Standard Bearer (VB) Simon Richardson 234 Banner Bearer Stephen Cooper 231 Sword Bearer Tony Stephenson 326 Aide de Camp Robert Griffiths 454 Aide de Camp Bill Johnson 132 Aide de Camp Keith Shepherd 584 Warden of Regalia John Davies 217 Chamberlain Greg Brereton 327 Captain of Guards Chris McCulloch 184 Organist David Thomson 15 Guard Colin Sansom 132 PAST RANKS 2nd Constable Scott Mathieson 100 Herald Kevin Talbot 15 Captain of Guards Robert Meade 184 PROMOTIONS 1st Constable Peter Crompton 14 1st Constable Ken Mayer 558 1st Constable Gerhard Horeis 217 2nd Constable Bill Caren 326 2nd Constable Anthony Lloyd 454 2nd Constable Peter Sandland 100 Herald Colin Sansom 132 Herald Robert Marley 318 Standard Bearer (B) David Kelly 603 BODYGUARD Commander Anthony Lloyd 454 Deputy Commander Kevin Talbot 15

The Bodyguard is a very important element of the ceremonial of Provincial Priory, particularly at the Annual Meeting when it is watched closely by visit-ing Provincial Priors. Keen members of the Order who are not yet Constables should contact the Sub-Prior via the Vice Chancellor.

Bodyguard