He has also been a member of the Committee of General Purposes of Grand Chapter since 2005, and in that capacity has been a strong contributor to the Committee's deliberations, including those in relation to the arrangements for the Royal Arch bicentenary, which took place in October 2013. He served from 1995 to 2003 as Deputy Chairman of the Public School Lodges' Council and for a further year as its Chairman. He currently holds the rank of Past Grand Sword Bearer in the Craft and Past Grand Scribe Nehemiah in the Royal Arch.īro Grace's service to Freemasonry, however, has by no means been confined to London. On the formation of the Metropolitan Grand Lodge (and Chapter) of London in October 2003, he became the Metropolitan Group Chairman for the Ripon Group, and following a further reorganisation of London he was appointed as one of the first batch of Assistant Metropolitan Grand Masters and Assistant Metropolitan Grand Superintendents in 2007 until his appointment as Deputy Metropolitan Grand Superintendent from 2009 to 2011. With the evolving reorganisation of London masonry he was promoted, as one of over twenty Group Chairmen under "London Management", to Junior Grand Deacon in 2000. He is a member of two other London chapters.īro Grace was appointed to the office of Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies in the Craft in 1997 and that of Grand Standard Bearer in the Royal Arch in 2000. 46 in London, becoming its First Principal in 1997. 32 in 1978, and ten years later joined Old Union Chapter, No. He was exalted into the Royal Arch in Jerusalem Chapter, No. He is a member and Past Master of three other lodges in London. 32 in Liverpool, where he was at the time working in shipping. In the meantime he had joined, and in 1981 served in the Chair of, St. 3533, in London and became its Master in 1983. Order of Service to Masonry citation for VW Bro Charles Raymond Grace, PGSwdBīro Charles Grace was made a mason in October, 1966, at the age of 27, in his old school lodge, Old Marlburian Lodge, No.