About Walter Leslie Wilmshurst
Lived 1867 – 1939 (aged 72). Walter Leslie Wilmshurst was a British writer.
Walter Leslie Wilmshurst (22 June 1867 – 10 July 1939) was an English author and Freemason. He published four books on English Freemasonry and submitted articles to The Occult Review magazine.
Life Born in Chichester, Wilmshurst was initiated as a Mason in the Huddersfield lodge in 1889, having moved to the town to become a solicitor, for a time becoming president of the Huddersfield Law Society. He died in London whilst attending the installation of the Duke of Kent as the Grand Master of the United Lodge of England.
In 1927, he founded the Lodge of Living Stones No.4957, in Leeds, which was set up purely in order to study the more esoteric meaning behind Masonic ritual and symbolism.
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English writer (1867–1939)
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Walter Leslie Wilmshurst was born on 22 June 1867 in Chichester.
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