{"id":36566,"date":"2025-03-20T10:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/?p=36566"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:10:29","slug":"celebrates-60-years-of-service-to-warwickshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/celebrates-60-years-of-service-to-warwickshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulation to David John Frederick Rawlins, Celebrates 60 years of service to Warwickshire"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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February 1965 was a very important month for Warwickshire as it saw the initiation of one David John Frederick Rawlins into the Craft. \u00a0It was a reflection of the very high regard in which Bro David is held that over 60 well-known brethren from Warwickshire and beyond come to support him at a recent emergency meeting of the Craft Stewards\u2019 Lodge, one of a number of units of which Bro David was a Founder.<\/p>

Delivered in typically delightful Warwickshire manner by the Craft ProvGM, RWBro Philip Hall, the assembled throng learned all about Bro David the man and the mason.\u00a0 Born in Birmingham, he attended local schools before leaving to join the family haulage and earth-moving firm.\u00a0 Originally using horses and carts before progressing to bigger vehicles with more horsepower, the company was responsible for transporting all the spoil from the underpasses in Birmingham to the airport where it was used in the building of the runways.\u00a0 They were also involved in the foundations of the Rotunda as well as other major building sites in and around the city.<\/p>

It was through the family firm that Bro David developed a love of horses.\u00a0 His father and two uncles were great Shire horse followers.\u00a0 They bred many excellent animals and would show them at most of the agricultural shows in England before becoming judges at such events.\u00a0 Bro David recalled his first car \u2013 a little red mini \u2013 and recounted one of several scrapes in said vehicle.\u00a0 Driving through Stechford with Denise, the back wheel came off.\u00a0 They saw it overtake the car, felt a bump and then realised that one wheel had indeed fallen off that particular wagon.<\/p>

Talking of Denise, they first met at a church youth club.\u00a0 Her father was a Freemason and they both attended many ladies nights and social events.\u00a0 Bro David became interested but Denise explained that he would have to ask as, in those days, he would not be invited to join.\u00a0 He had not yet turned 21, so Bro David would have to wait a little longer.\u00a0 He married Denise in 1964 and then, having reached the required age, was initiated into Bedford Lodge the following year.<\/p>

It did not take Bro David long to take his next Masonic step as in 1967 he joined Moseley Mark Lodge \u2013 obviously Worcestershire\u2019s gain!\u00a0 He served our neighbouring Province as ProvAGDC before taking on ProvGDC the following year.\u00a0 He\u2019d clearly make quite an impression as he was then appointed the DepPGM just two years later!\u00a0 It was quite some time before he decided to join the Mark in Warwickshire but he obviously hit the ground running as he served the Province as ProvGDC from 1996 until 1999 and subsequently invested as the 14th<\/sup> ProvGM in 2017.\u00a0 He had a fabulous five years leading the Province, visiting virtually every other Province including Belgium and the Channel Islands.<\/p>

Away from Freemasonry, he and Denise had two sons \u2013 Adrian & Nicholas \u2013 who have given them 5 grandsons.\u00a0 RWBro David also has one great-grandson and (finally?) one great-granddaughter.\u00a0 Denise was a great supporter of all that David did but sadly her health deteriorated having been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.\u00a0 They celebrated their golden anniversary in 2014 but she sadly passed away in 2019.\u00a0 Bro David has subsequently found a new love in Sandy whom, to the delight of his many friends and family, he recently married.<\/p>

The RW ProvGM thanked Bro David for this exemplary service to Freemasonry in general and to Warwickshire in particular.\u00a0 He read out the certificate and then presented him with his new lapel badge.\u00a0 The escorting ProvAGDC then delivered a superb (and somewhat long) proclamation.\u00a0 The evening then continued with a splendid Festive Board at which over \u00a3650 was raised for Fisher House, a magnificent sum and very appropriate on such a special evening.<\/p>

WBro Simon Grove, March 2025<\/p>

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February 1965 was a very important month for Warwickshire as it saw the initiation of one David John Frederick Rawlins into the Craft. \u00a0It was a reflection of the very high regard in which Bro David is held that over 60 well-known brethren from Warwickshire and beyond come to support him at a recent emergency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-36566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","owp-btn-normal","owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","has-no-thumbnails","has-product-nav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36566"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36677,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36566\/revisions\/36677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36566"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=36566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}