RW Bro Richard William Penn, 1st Earl Howe was provincial grand master of the then Leicestershire Province from 1856 and became the first provincial grand master of the combined province of Leicestershire and Rutland until 1869.
The provincial Grand Master RW Bro Eric Heaviside,of the Provincial <B Grand Lodge of Durham, lays the Masonic Floor Foundation Stone, in the Great Kitchen at Durham Cathedral.