The Sir Andrew Fraser Lodge

Official Website of The Sir Andrew Fraser Lodge No. 72 G.L.I, Calcutta, India

A Brief History

he Sir Andrew Fraser Lodge was formed in honour of Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser, KCSI who was the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal between 1903 and 1908. Sir Andrew Fraser was very actively involved in the foundation of a several Lodges in Bengal during that period. He was also instrumental in the historic Initiation of His Majesty Habibullah Khan the Emir of Afghanistan along with R.W. Bro. Lord Kitchener and officiated as Senior Warden in the ceremony on 2nd February, 1907 in Freemasons’ Hall, Calcutta.

This Lodge was constituted on 28th January, 1908 and was consecrated in the Burdwan District of Bengal on Monday the 30th of March, 1908 by W.Bro George Lane Anderson, Deputy District Grand Master of Bengal. The first Worshipful Master was W.Bro Atal C. Sen, another eminent Freemason of the day, who later had a Lodge named in his honour, with W.Bro Sir Andrew Fraser, Lt. Governor of Bengal as his I.P.M. Other illustrious Founder Members included W.Bro MaharajadhirajBahadur Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab of Burdwan, W.Bro Rai Bahadur Lalit Mohan Singh Roy, CIE, JP, and W.Bro Raja Bahadur Manilal Singh Roy, among several others. This Lodge has initiated many distinguished Masons. R.W.Bro Shyam Kinkor Ghosh, P.Dy.GM, an illustrious Mason was the Secretary of this Lodge from 1918 to 1942. W.Bro Rai Bahadur S.N.Mukherjee, PDGJW, deserves special mention  for his continuous support to the Lodge over a period of three years in which he occupied the Eastern Chair. This Lodge opted to join the Grand Lodge of India AF & AM in 1961.

The Lodge was in abeyance from 2002 to 2005 and was revived on May, 2005 with 2 original members remaining on it’s rolls. Since 2005, despite a few initial years of strife, the Lodge has seen a steady growth, both in terms of it’s membership and it’s number of working. In 2006 the Lodge participated in the ‘Adopt a child’ programme of Child Relief and You (CRY) as a part of it’s charity programme. The Lodge has also actively supported the Masonic Polyclinic Association of Eastern India. The Lodge turned 100 years old on 30th March, 2008.

 

 

 

Roll of Past Masters

 

 
 

 

Founding Fathers of The Sir Andrew Fraser Lodge

 

 

1908

 W. Bro. Atal C. Sen

 

1909

 W. Bro. Raja Bahadur M. L. Singh Roy

 

1910

 W. Bro. Maharaja Dhiraj Bahadur Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab

 

1911

 W. Bro. Maharaja Dhiraj Bahadur Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab

 

1912

 W. Bro. Maharaja Dhiraj Bahadur Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab

 

1913

 W. Bro. Sarat Ch. Basu

 

1914

 W. Bro. Sarat Ch. Basu

 

1915

 W. Bro. Sarat Ch. Basu

 

1916

 W. Bro. Sarat Ch. Basu

 

1917

 W. Bro. Sarat Ch. Basu

 

1918

 W. Bro. Sarat Ch. Basu

 

1919

 W. Bro. B. Srimany

 

1920

 W. Bro. S. C. Das

 

1921

 W. Bro. U. N. Bose

 

1922

 W. Bro. D. H. Mehta

 

1923

 W. Bro. S. N. Ghosh

 

1924

 W. Bro. S. K. Basu

 

1925

 W. Bro. U. N. Das

 

1926

 W. Bro. N. N. Bose

 

1927

 W. Bro. U. N. Das

 

1928

 W. Bro. R. J. Gajdar

 

1929

 W. Bro. A. Ghose

 

1930

 W. Bro. P. L. Bhattacharya

 

1931

 W. Bro. C. L. Murarka

 

1932

 W. Bro. R. Masti

 

1933

 W. Bro. K. K. Menon

 

1934

 W. Bro. P. L. Bhattacharya

 

1935

 W. Bro. A. Subramanian

 

1936

 W. Bro. N. Banerjee

 

1937

 W. Bro. Sree Narayan Soone

 

1938

 W. Bro. B. B. Chakravorty

 

1939

 W. Bro. S. C. Ghosh

 

1940

 W. Bro. N. N. Mukherjee

 

1941

 W. Bro. S. K. Roy Chowdhury

 

1942

 W. Bro. S. N. Mukherjee

 

1943

 W. Bro. S. N. Mukherjee

 

1944

 W. Bro. S. N. Mukherjee

 

1945

 W. Bro. G. C. Ghosh

 

1946

 W. Bro. S. N. Mukherjee

 

1947

 W. Bro. B. N. Sen

 

1948

 W. Bro. H. C. Mukherjee

 

1949

 W. Bro. B. B. Dhara

 

1950

 W. Bro. S. K. Sur

 

1951

 W. Bro. Dr. Arun Ganguly

 

1952

 W. Bro. P. Basu

 

1953

 W. Bro. Amiya Kanta Ganguly

 

1954

 W. Bro. R. K. Das

 

1955

 W. Bro. Bidhan Chandra Ray

 

1956

 W. Bro. L. N. Joardar

 

1957

 W. Bro. Dr. Kali Pada Bhattacharya

 

1958

 W. Bro. Saroj Kumar Ghosh

 

1959

 W. Bro. Brojendra Lal Bhowmick

 

1960

 W. Bro. Bibha Chandra Rakshit

 

1961

 W. Bro. S. B. R. Naidu

 

1962

 W. Bro. Dr. Kanti Ballohi

 

1963

 W. Bro. Gautam Kumar Ghosh

 

1964

 W. Bro. Gautam Kumar Ghosh

 

1965

 W. Bro. Dr. Patul Chandra Guha

 

1966

 W. Bro. Dwijesh Chandra Chakravorty

 

1967

 W. Bro. Suraj Narain Mishra

 

1968

 W. Bro. Lakshmidas Karamsi Someshwar

 

1969

 W. Bro. Baldev Raj Bhatia

 

1970

 W. Bro. Dilip Kumar Kar

 

1971

 W. Bro. Dr. Mohit Ranjan Lihiri

 

1972

 W. Bro. Ram Prakash Mehra

 

1973

 W. Bro. Rapesh Ranjan Chakravorty

 

1974

 W. Bro. A. K. Roy Chowdhury

 

1975

 W. Bro. Partho Sarathi Banerjee

 

1976

 W. Bro. Subir Roy

 

1977

 W. Bro. Utpal Krishna Ghosh

 

1978

 W. Bro. Sudip Kumar Hom Chowdhury

 

1979

 W. Bro. Kalyan Kumar Dutta Gupta

 

1980

 W. Bro. Nirmalendu Das

 

1981

 W. Bro. Lokesh Chandra Moitra

 

1982

 W. Bro. Saroj Behari Bhaduri

 

1983

 W. Bro. Dr. Hari Pada Bhowmick

 

1984

 W. Bro. Nalini Kanto Nath

 

1985

 W. Bro. Barun Bakshi

 

1986

 W. Bro. Barun Bakshi

 

1987

 W. Bro. Dr. Asish Bhattacharya

 

1988

 W. Bro. Asish Kumar Ghosh

 

1989

 W. Bro. Asish Kumar Ghose

 

1990

 W. Bro. Dr. N. K. Nath

 

1991

 W. Bro. Dr. Hari Pada Bhoiwmick

 

1992

 W. Bro. Dr. Biral Chand Mallick

 

1993

 W. Bro. Serajul Alam

 

1994

 W. Bro. Serajul Alam

 

1995

 W. Bro. D. Roychowdhury

 

1996

 W. Bro. Dr. Pradip Majumdar

 

1997

 W. Bro. Dr. P. B. Das

 

1998

 W. Bro. Dr. Asit Mukhopadhaya

 

1999

 W. Bro. Bhola Nath Dhar

 

2000

 W. Bro. Dr. Pranab Narayan Biswas

 

2001

 W. Bro. Jayanta Mukherjee

 

2005

 W. Bro. Ambarish Singh Roy

 

2006

 W. Bro. Ambarish Singh Roy

 

2007

 W. Bro. Dhrubendra Nath Banerjee

 

2008

 W. Bro. Bharat V. Epur

 

2009

 W.Bro. Anil Khullar