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The District Grand Lodge of Madras enjoys a long and distinguished history. Please click the titles of the excerpts below, or on the links in the sidebar to the right, to read the respective article.

Provincial Grand Masters on The Coast of Coromandel of Madras or of Presidency of Madras

1	1767	Captain Edmund Pascal.
2	1786	Brigadier-General Mathew Horne
3	1790	John Chamier, M.C.S
4	1806	Terence Gahagan, M.D. (Acting)
5	1810	Terence Gahagan, M.D
6	1812	Herbert Compton, Barrister-at-Law (Acting)
7	1813	Herbert Compton (afterwards Hon.Sir.Herbert Compton Kt.Puisne Judge, Bombay)
8	1814	Richard Jebb, LL.D. Barrister-at-law (Acting)
9	1812	Richard Jebb, LL.D
10	1820	George Lys (Acting)
11	1826	Sir Herbert Compton.
12	1840	The Right Hon'ble John Baron Elphinstone,G.C.H. Governor of Madras
13	1852	Robert Hudleston Williamson, M.C.S

District Grand Masters Of The District Grand Lodge Of Madras

1	1856	Lieut.Col. Willam Pitt MacDonald, Madras Army (First District Grand Master.)
2	1867	Arthur MacDonald Ritchie, B.A., Barrister-at-Law
3	1875	John Miller, Barrister-at-Law
4	1879	Major Aubery William Ogilvie Saunders, Royal Scots Fusiliers
5	1884	Arthur Morell Saunders
6	1888	The Right Hon'ble Lord Conne mara, G.C.I.E., Governor of Madras.
7	1891	Sir George Montagomere John Moore, K.T., C.I.E
8	1901	The Right Hon'ble Lord Ampthill, G.C.I.E. Governor of Madras
9	1906	The Hon'ble Herbert Bradley, G.S.I., I.C.S
10	1910	The Hon'ble Sir Murray Hammick, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S
11	1914	Hon'ble Lewllyn E.Buckley, C.S.I., I.C.S
12	1922	The Hon'ble Sir Archibald Young Gipps Campbell, K.C.I.E. C.S.I., C.B.E., V.D., I.C.S
13	1933	Sir George Townsend Boag, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., I.C.S
14	1946	Tiruchendurai Venkataraman Muthukrishna Aiyer, B.A. B.L.
15	1967	Lt.Col. G.S.Gill, C.I.E., O.B.E., I.M.S. (Retd.)
16	1978	Arumana Parameswaran Tampi, B.A.
17	2001	Kumar Ravindra Nath Menon, M.A. (Oxon)
18	2011	Theophilus Arputharaj Devagnanam, FIIPE

RW DGM Theo Devagnanam

I warmly welcome you all to the Annual Investiture meeting of our District. Unfortunately, I am not able to be with you in person, on this occasion, but I assure you that I am with all of you in spirit. Having to undergo medical treatment has prevented me from attending this particular meeting. Your Deputy District Grand Master, therefore, will conduct the meeting and read this address on my behalf.

It is particularly difficult to be away in the light of the fact that we have been unable to meet for the last two years.

Although we were not able to meet Masonic activity, in the form of charity, worked extremely well during the pandemic and every Lodge in the District did its part in support of its community. Six of our Brethren and the Lodge of Rock were honoured by the M.W.Grand Master for their Covid relief efforts.

RWDGM Kumar Ravindranath Menon

Bro. Kumar Ravindra Nath Menon our District Grand Master was born in Colombo Ceylon in August 1935. His father the late Mr. S.R.K. Menon was the head of his own large auditing practice in that country, and till the year 1958 that was his place of residence.

Our DGM was educated in India and Ceylon where he attended St. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa from where he passed the London Matriculation exam. In 1951, with distinction.

He later spent two years as an (Intermediate) student at Madras Christian College, Tambaram, from which establishment he proceeded to Oxford as an undergraduate at Christ Church and in due time, taking an Honors Degree in Philosophy Politics and Economics in 1957.