Quatuor Coronati Lodge: Our Next Meeting

Quatuor Coronati Lodge meets five times a year on the second Thursday in November (Installation); third Thursday in February; second Thursday in May; fourth Thursday in June; and second Thursday in September. Lodge meetings are usually held at Freemasons’ Hall, Great Queen Street, London, and open at 4.00pm.

The United Grand Lodge of England requires those attending QC Lodge meetings, whether members of QCCC or otherwise, to be a member of a lodge under UGLE’s jurisdiction or members of lodges in Masonic jurisdictions recognised by UGLE. We wear undress regalia (Craft), dark suit and tie. Where we host non-masonic speakers or open the lodge to non-Masons, we close or call the Lodge off for the lecture and at that point welcome everyone to attend. There is no formal dress code for visitors on such occasions.

Thursday, 19 February 2026
Rob Hammond
‘Does Freemasonry Follow the Railroad?’

The Meeting will be at 4.00pm at Freemasons’ Hall, Great Queen Street, London

The Speaker

Rob Hammond is a North Wales Mason, initiated into Royal Denbigh Lodge No.1143 in 2012.  Born in neighbouring Cheshire, after studying PPE at Oxford and with nothing better to do he joined the Army in 1991. Initially an infantry officer, he served in Norway, Kenya and Bosnia with the UN in 1994, before transferring to become a military educator. In that capacity between 1996 and 2001 he served in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and Sierra Leone, the latter becoming a lifetime academic interest and the subject of an article in AQC 135. He completed his MA at Lancaster University in 2004 and left the army in 2007 after his final operational tour in Iraq. He then became an Associate Lecturer with the Open University, for whom he still works, and completed his PhD thesis titled Freemasonry and the Political History of Sierra Leone: 1890 – 1992.  Living on his wife’s family farm, when he’s not working indoors, he’s working outdoors.

The Summons will be available here prior to the date of the meeting

Please notify the Lodge Secretary if you will be attending: secretary@quatuorcoronati.com. It is sufficient to give your name, rank and Lodge. Everyone is entitled to attend, from EA onwards.

Delivery papers (with the exception of the Installation paper), are available to members of QCCC prior to each meeting. Papers are copyright and may not be reproduced.
Comments and questions on delivery papers should be sent via email to editor@quatuorcoronati.com for publication in AQC.

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