Page from the Minute Book of the Ancient's Grand Lodge in Dermott's Hand
Laurence Dermott (/ˈdɜːrmət/; 1720 – June 1791) was born in Ireland and became a Freemason in 1741. He held various offices before being installed as Worshipful Master of Lodge No. 26 in Dublin on 24 June 1746. He moved to London in 1748, possibly working as a journeyman painter, and possibly with a view to expanding his father's business. He would later work as a wine merchant, like his father.
He married his first wife, Susanna Neale, a widow, in 1759. She died in 1764. He married his second wife, Mary Windell, also a widow, in 1765 but she died after just three months of marriage in February 1766. Dermott married his third wife Elizabeth Merryman, another widow on 13 November 1766. She had two daughters by her first husband, John Merryman, who had died in 1760. She and Dermott had a son named Laurence after his father in 1767 but he did not survive infancy.
Dermott lived in Aldgate, Mile End and Stepney. He served as Grand Secretary of the Ancient Grand Lodge of England from 1752 to 1771. He wrote and published the Book of Constitutions of this Grand Lodge for the Ancient Grand Lodge of England, which he titled the Ahiman Rezon. Above all, it was Dermott's drive and tenacity that is credited with turning an association of six London lodges in 1751 into a viable and successful Grand Lodge, with lodges throughout England and the colonies.
LaurenceDermott (/ˈdɜːrmət/; 1720 – June 1791) was born in Ireland and became a Freemason in 1741. He held various offices before being installed as Worshipful...
Lodge or Ahiman Rezon (אֲחִימָן רְזוֹן) was a constitution written by LaurenceDermott for the Ancient Grand Lodge of England which was formed in 1751. The...
to the Moderns, the original Grand Lodge which its critics, notably LaurenceDermott, said had moved away from the ritual of Scotland, Ireland, and now...
position in the Navy, and resigned after seven months. His successor, LaurenceDermott, presided as Grand Secretary for almost twenty years, being deputy...
which we now call the Antients. The Grand Secretary of the Antients, LaurenceDermott, based his regulations on Spratt's Irish constitutions. It was the...
than the original Grand Lodge, grew rapidly under the influence of LaurenceDermott, who was Grand Secretary from 1752 to 1771, and deputy Grand Master...
six years of silence from the older institution. On 5 February 1752 LaurenceDermott became Grand Secretary, and proper minutes ensued. Although these have...
organisation for unaffiliated lodges in England. Their second secretary, LaurenceDermott, believed the Royal Arch to be the fourth degree. When the two Grand...
Their book of constitutions, the Ahiman Rezon of their Grand Secretary LaurenceDermott, suggests that the Moderns had now changed their passwords in alarm...
while the older grand lodge was referred to as the "Moderns". In 1746, LaurenceDermott, who would later become Grand Secretary of the "Antients", had been...
"Antients", while the older was referred to as the "Moderns". In 1746, LaurenceDermott, later the Grand Secretary of the "Antients", had been accepted into...
motto, now "Holiness to the Lord," is the work of Judah Leon accord to LaurenceDermott, the first Grand Secretary, who in his book Ahiman Rezon attributes...
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Ancients' Grand Lodge of England (1751–1813). North Carolina used LaurenceDermott's Ahiman Rezon, William Preston's Illustrations of Masonry (1804 ed...
regular Masons, briefly considered and answered, that response to LaurenceDermott's Ahiman Rezon. Although there is no direct attribution on the text's...
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