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Ulster-Scots Orange Lodges

Article 3 ~ December 2003

The term "Ulster-Scot" is not a new one as far as the Orange Institution is concerned.

For the records of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland show that in 1872 a warrant was granted to a Lodge in Tyrone which was to be known as the Ulster-Scot Loyal Orange Lodge.

And a year later, the Grand Lodge minutes for December 1873 detail that a warrant - number 2002 - had been issued to a Lodge in Belfast which was to be known as The Ulster Scot.

It is not clear what became of L.O.L. No. 340 in Tyrone, for the warrant book for 1875 reports that the warrant was then operating in Glenavy in County Antrim, having been issued to William James Smyth.

When the Grand Orange Lodge of the United States met in Boston in 1894, meanwhile, one of the District Lodges represented, was the Ulster-Scot District, represented by Reuben Yates, the official report of the gathering tells us.

And the Defender newspaper produced by the Orange Order in England details in January 1911 that Ulster-Scot Lodge No. 287 had met at the Welcome, Fore Street, Devonport. A number of naval brethren were on Christmas leave, reducing the numbers somewhat, it was related. Worshipful Master of the Lodge in 1911 was W. Macavoy, while Robert Longhead of Arva, County Cavan, was visiting the Lodge that month and four new members were initiated.

The Lodge also decided to write a congratulatory letter to Brother Raycroft "on being one of the first mechanicians to be promoted to warrant officer in the navy," it was outlined.

Many Lodges were, and are, of course, strongly Ulster-Scots, even though their names may not be so explicit as the brethren in the 1870s.

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