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ROBERT FREKE GOULD

1836 - March 26, 1915 A founding member and the second Master of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, London, Robert Freke Gould contributed twenty-five papers and many notes to Ars Quatuor Coronatorum. A lieutenant in the 31st Regiment, English Army and later a barrister from 1868, he is best remembered as an early proponent of the authentic school of masonic research and for his three-volume History of Freemasonry (1883-1887). Charter Member  Initiated : 1854 Royal Navy Lodge No. 429, Ramsgate Affiliated: 1857 Friendship Lodge, Gibralter Worshipful Master: 1863 Northern Lodge No. 570, China Senior Grand Deacon: 1880 United Grand Lodge of England Source: Ars Quatuor Coronatorum. Portrait: frontispiece, Collected Essays & Papers Relating to Freemasonry, Robert Freke Gould. Belfast: William Tait, 1913. Etching by S. Hollyer, front to A Library of Freemasonry, Robert Freke Gould. London : The John C. Yorston Publishing Company, 1911.