The Revised Edition of the official history of the Order of Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests by Reg Cooley and Michael Knowles, entitled “The Priestly Order”,  is still available from Grand College.

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At the Especial Assembly of Grand College held at the Masonic Hall, Filey on Thursday 13^th May 2010 the Most Illustrious Grand High Priest, Ernest Peter Donnison, KGC (Hon Causa) GCA, was pleased to invest Ill.Kt.Pt. David Harold William Scott, P.G.IV.P., District Director of Ceremonies, as Grand Superintendent of District No.1 – Yorkshire, North and East Ridings.

On Thursday 22 July, The Grand High Priest, M.Ill.Kt.Pt. Ernest Peter Donnison, attended the installation meeting of The Seven Pillars Tabernacle No.225 at Goole, together with R.Em. Kt.Pt. Godfrey Bedford, Grand Superintendent, Yorkshire West Riding. After seeing the admission into the Order of Kt.Pt. David John Roach, Deputy Intendant General of the Red Cross of Constantine for Yorkshire, North & East Ridings, they witnessed V.Ill.Kt.Pt. Michael Arthur Hadfield, CHW, Grand Treasurer being installed as High Priest of the Tabernacle. Under “Any Other Business”, it pleased the Grand High Priest to confer the rank of P.G.III.P on Kt.Pt. Paul Crossland Grafton, the Immediate Past High Priest of White Rose Tabernacle No.24, the KT Provincial Prior for the Province of West Yorkshire.

Also present were M.Em.Kt.Pt. Jonathan Terence Crompton, Past Deputy High Priest; R.Ill.Kt.Pt. Anthony Charles Hayes GHP Awd, PGR; R.Ill.Kt.Pt. Alexander Michael Jones, GHP Awd, PGS and R.Em.Kt.Pt. David Harold Scott, Grand Superintendent, Yorkshire North and East Ridings.

Kt. Pt. David John Roach

V.Ill.Kt.Pt. Michael Arthur Hadfield

L-r : Ill.Kt.Pt. Keith Howard Turner, Grand High Priest M.Ill.Kt.Pt. Ernest Peter Donnison, V.Ill.Kt.Pt. Michael Arthur Hadfield.

Ill.Kt.Pt. Paul Crossland Grafton

On the 13th February 2010, the Grand Recorder, Ill.Kt.Pt. John Stephen Priestley, P.G.V.P., attended the Annual Masonic “In-Gathering” in Washington D.C., U.S.A.

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On Monday 8th February 2010, the Most Illustrious Grand High Priest, Ernest Peter Donnison, attended a meeting of Unicorn Tabernacle No.107 in The Hague, Netherlands.

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The Most Illustrious Grand High Priest has been pleased to appoint Ill.Kt.Pt. Peter Desmond Cole, P.G.VII.P., as the new Grand Superintendent of District No.35 – Bahamas & Jamaica.

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On Friday 11th December 2009, the Most Illustrious Grand High Priest, Ernest Peter Donnison, was absolutely delighted to attend the meeting of Premier Tabernacle No.1 at Mark Masons’ Hall, St. James’s, London, to be present when several distinguished Knight Priests became joining members.

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