Lodge Eduction being No. 814 on the register of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons holds regular meetings on the 3rd Saturday of the month at the Petersham Masonic Centre. Lodge Education No. 814 was formed in 1950 when Worshipful Brother Henry George Setchell, Brother John Wright, Brother Ronald Eric Davies, Brother
Herald Victor Messer, Brother Douglas Ashton Beardow, Brother Albert Francis Baker, Brother George Reddish and others, Master Masons and educators all, met and petitioned the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales to establish a lodge to meet on the Third Saturday of each month at the Royal Arch Masonic Temple, located at Fisher Street, Petersham, a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The United Grand Lodge of New South Wales was pleased to approve the brethrenโs petition and Right Worshipful Brother John Hodgson, Past Deputy Grand Master and Right Worshipful Brother J. Miller, Past Grand Secretary, issued a charter to them on the 28th June 1950 thus empowering the Brethren thereof to initiate, pass and raise Freemasons in accordance to the Ancient Customs of the Craft in all nations and ages throughout the world. The Lodge was consecrated on the 21st of October 1950 and under the watch of Past Grand Master Most Worshipful Brother Frank S. Worshipful Brother Setchell, Worshipful Brother Wright and Brother Davies respectively served as the lodgeโs inaugural Three Great Lights from 1950 to 1951. There was a total of forty-nine original members and as the years passed by there was a big influx in membership. The members increased to one hundred and fifty during the reign of Worshipful Brother Allan Culgin from 1959 to 1960. In ensuing years, many brethren have followed in the footsteps of their distinguished predecessors, most of whom have now passed to the Grand Lodge above, and large numbers of new Freemasons continue to be initiated in Lodge Education, the consequence of which is felt today with the Lodgeโs ritual work still being considered excellent.
