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Prince of Wales Lodge No. 1705

Welcome to the web site of the Prince of Wales Lodge No. 1705 E.C.

The Worshipful Master, Past Masters, Officers and Brethren hope that you find our site interesting and informative.

The Lodge meets at the Masonic Hall, Clarence Road, Gosport, Hampshire on the fourth Thursday of September through to June (except December).
How to find us - Gosport Masonic Hall

The installation meeting takes place in October at 5.30 pm, all other meetings begin at 7.00 pm.

The General Purposes Committee meets at 7.00 pm on the Tuesday of the week prior to the Regular Lodge meeting.

The Lodge is open for Candidates for Initiation and offers a warm welcome to visitors from other Lodges. Please contact the Lodge Secretary, W. Bro. Steve Frost on 01329 517037 or by email by clicking on this link.

We very much hope that you find our site interesting and useful. Please take a few moments to add a comment to our guestbook.

Updated on 5th June 2009 with details of the appointment of a Lodge member to Grand Rank.

Updated on 13th March 2009 with details of our recent trip to Prince of Wales Lodge No. 222 in Dublin.

Updates on 2nd March 2009 with appointments to Provincial Grand Lodge, additional details about 'Other' Prince of Wales Lodges, the awarding of an M.B.E. to a Lodge member, and a link to a wonderful narrative from a member of Royal Prince of Wales Lodge No. 1555 meeting in Penang, Malaysia who visited our Lodge at the Installation meeting in October 2008.

Updated on 14th January 2009 with details of ITV programmes about Freemasonry

The Worshipful Master

Our Worshipful Master, Ian Frederick Chase was born on 7th April 1945 at Steep near Petersfield, in a country house called 'Colliers' which had been requisitioned during the war as a maternity unit. Legend has it that every child born at Colliers was presented with a silver spoon.

Ian does not have that spoon,but it could explain the gap in his two front teeth!

Ian's parents, Bernard and Sheila, and older brother Alan returned to Gosport after the war, where Ian attended Newtown Infants, Leesland Primary, and the Grove County Secondary School for boys.

On leaving school in 1960 aged 14, Ian became an apprentice hairdresser, he was 15 on the Thursday of his first week at work.

He met and married Christine in 1964, they have two children, Samantha and Matthew, and two grandchildren, Luke and Lilly, plus four cats and two rabbits!

Ian has been continuously running his own businesses since 1966, and currently has a busy ladies and gentlemens hairdressing salon in Gosport.

Ian was Initiated into Rowner Lodge No. 6974 in January 1991 attaining the Chair of K.S. in 2001.

Ian became a joining member of the Prince of Wales Lodge No. 1705 in 1994, having been proposed by the late lamented Bro. Dave Pickering and seconded by W. Bro. Malcolm Brice.

In July of 2008 Ian received the provincial honour of P.P.A.G.D.C. and in on 23rd October, the further honour of being installed into the Chair of K.S. of the Prince of Wales Lodge No. 1705.

Ian is particularly proud to be on the same honours board as his headmaster at Leesland school, the late Chandos J. Washington who was the Worshipful Master in 1960. W. Bro. Washington is on the Gosport honours lists four times with; the Prince of Wales Lodge No. 1705, M.E.Z. of Alverstoke Chapter No. 1705, M.W.S. of Solent Chapter No. 400 Rose Croix, and M.P.S. of the Rose of Wessex Conclave of the Red Cross of Constantine.

However, Ian is catching up and currently features on three boards. He is the current (as at October 2008) First Principal of Lee Britten Royal Arch Chapter No. 5782.
Outside of Freemasonry, Ian is an avid Portsmouth F.C. fan and is a season ticket holder.

”WML Award 2008”
Making Good Men Better