FREEMASONS from within and outwith the Province of Renfrewshire West will gather in Greenock Town Hall next month for the 295th annual installation of Lodge Greenock Kilwinning No XII.

Inverclyde’s oldest organisation and one of oldest lodges in Scotland, No XII was instituted in 1728 and represented at St Mary’s Chapel, Edinburgh, for the institution of the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.

Brother James Pearston Livingstone will be installed as No XII’s new Right Worshipful Master (RWM) on November 21.

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He was head of procurement with East Renfrewshire Council for many years before retiring in 2013, and is a member of the Institute of Purchasing and Supply and of the Chartered Management Institute.

Bro Livingstone is well known and respected throughout the Province of Renfrewshire West and beyond, and has attracted many accolades during a long and successful masonic career.

He was initiated into Lodge Firth of Clyde Gourock No 626, and served as its master with great distinction from 1989 to 1991. He was also master of his adoptive lodge, Inverkip Ardgowan No 1425, in 2012, and has supported No XII in several significant posts since affiliating to the lodge in 2008.

Bro Livingstone is a Past Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Renfrewshire West.

Before this, he served as Provincial Grand Secretary from 1993 until 2003, and then as Substitute and Depute Provincial Grand Master. In 2013 he was commissioned as Provincial Grand Master by Bro Charles Iain Robert Wolrige Gordon of Esslemont, the Most Worshipful Grand Master Mason, and held the post until 2018.

Bro Livingstone is an honorary member of seven other lodges as well as holding honorary Grand Rank within the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

The brethren of No XII are delighted that Bro Livingstone has agreed to chair the lodge for the coming year and look forward to seeing him being installed by Past Master Bro Hector Macphail, assisted by Past Master Bro Robert Bain and the present RWM, Bro Brian McFadyen.