Roger Pemberton
Provincial Grand Master, Most Excellent Grand Superintendent
Born 1951 in Cheshire, but moved to the seaside resort of Colwyn Bay at the age of two. Went to school at Merton House, Penmaenmawr and afterwards at Abergele Grammar School before winning a place at Christ Church, Oxford where he gained an MA in English Language and Literature.
Roger moved to Shropshire in 1980 to set up a company importing and distributing into the automotive aftermarket. After 30 years he sold the business to an American company and Roger retired to an even more hectic career. He was until recently Chairman of the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity.
Roger joined The Roden Lodge in 1988 and became WM in 1998. He was Provincial Grand Sword Bearer in 2003, Provincial Senior Grand Warden in 2007 and was honoured by the RtWPrGM with the office of Deputy Provincial Grand Master in 2011. In the Royal Arch, Roger is a member of The Roden Chapter and was invested as PPrGSoj in 2005 and as PrGJ in 2010. In 2011 he became PrGH for Shropshire .
He is also a member of FitzAlan Lodge No 1432,The Iron Bridge Lodge No 9897, Dinorben Lodge No 8580 (North Wales), Lodge of Silent Temple No 126 (East Lancs)and Shropshire Installed Masters’ Lodge No 6262. He is a member of the North Shropshire Mark Lodge No 840 of the North Shropshire Royal Ark Mariners Lodge No 840 and of the Edgbaston Council of Royal and Select Masters. Roger is a Vice President of the Manchester Association for Masonic Research and in January 2020 will become President.
Jeremy Kenneth Lund
Deputy Provincial Grand Master
Jeremy was born in Dartford, Kent in 1958. He attended St Bartholomew’s Grammar School, Newbury before going up to the Queen’s College, Oxford to read Music. After a spell in Exeter to qualify as a teacher, he took up his first post at King William’s College, Isle of Man, and in 1983 was Initiated into the King William’s Lodge 3883, of which he remains a member.
Jeremy moved to Shrewsbury in 1987 to become Director of Music at Prestfelde School till his retirement in 2020. Being an Organist, he was quickly snapped up by the Salopian Lodge of Charity 117, becoming its Worshipful Master in 2004. He has been PrGOrg of Shropshire, and in 2014 was promoted as PrSGW before being honoured as PAGDC in 2018, then PGSwdB in 2019. He was Communications Officer for Shropshire from 2012 to 2018 and is a member of the Shropshire Installed Masters’ Lodge 6262. Jeremy, a member of Salopian Royal Arch Chapter 262, is PPrGScN in Shropshire and Organist of 6262 Chapter.
In other Degrees, he is a Mark Mason, a Royal Ark Mariner, a member of Rose Croix and of the Masonic Order of Athelstan. In his spare time he still enjoys playing music as organist at St Alkmund’s, Shrewsbury where he helps with the running of a popular concert series. Jeremy writes choral music and occasionally provides other arrangements. He is still even occasionally in demand as a Lodge Organist!
David John Kettle
Deputy Grand Superintendent
David John Kettle, (although he prefers to be called Dave) was born in 1953 in Birmingham and educated at Bournville Boys’ Grammar Technical School. He later attained an LLB Degree at Birmingham Polytechnic and a Cert. Ed. from Canterbury Christ Church College. Following a career in the Birmingham City Police and West Midlands Police he retired with the rank of Superintendent in 2002. He then operated a successful Training Consultancy until finally retiring from full time employment in 2009. He has been happily married to Cheryl since 1978 and they have one daughter, Sonia.
He was Initiated in Old Dixonians’ Lodge No 6037 in Warwickshire in 1987 becoming its Master in 1993. He is also a member of, and has been Master of, the Wernlegh Abbey Lodge No 6356 in Worcestershire and the Caer Caradoc Lodge No 6346 in Shropshire. He is also a Member of the Shropshire Installed Masters Lodge No 6262. He is a Past First Principal of the Caer Caradoc Chapter No 6346 and is also a member of the Shropshire Installed First Principals Chapter No 6262. He is a Past Provincial Grand Officer in Warwickshire and Worcestershire and, in Shropshire, he was appointed Provincial Assistant Grand Secretary and Provincial Assistant Grand Scribe Ezra in April 2007. He was promoted to Provincial Grand Secretary and Provincial Grand Scribe Ezra in 2011. He is also active in Mark, Royal Ark Mariners, Order of Secret Monitor and Rose Croix.
Stephen Charles Rogers
Assistant Provincial Grand Master
We are delighted to announce that Grand Lodge has sanctioned the appointment by the Provincial Grand Master of an Assistant. for the first time in the history of the Province. Congratulations to Stephen on his appointment.
Born in 1951 in Edgbaston to Shropshire-bred parents, Stephen was educated at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, boarding away from home to allow for some consistency of schooling, his father moving frequently around the country with his job as a bank manager.
He graduated from the University of Liverpool with an honours degree in Law, entering Articles of Clerkship with a Shrewsbury firm of Solicitors and being admitted as a Solicitor in 1975. After 20 years in practice, Stephen was appointed as a District Judge in the Civil and Family Courts in 1995, retiring in 2016.
Initiated in Pengwerne Lodge No 3229 in 1985 and its WM in 1997, he is a Founder Member of The Iron Bridge Lodge No 9897, a member of Shropshire Installed Masters’ Lodge No 6262 and an aspiring (at the time or writing) member of The Wrekin Lodge No 2883 in London. Appointed Provincial Grand Sword Bearer in 2004, followed by appointment to the ranks of Provincial Grand Registrar between 2008 and 2011, and Provincial Senior Grand Warden in 2012, he has since 2021 been the Provincial Grand Communications Officer. He was appointed PAGDC in Grand Lodge in 2019.
In the Royal Arch, Stephen is a member and Past MEZ of Pengwerne Chapter No 3229 and a member of Shropshire Installed First Principals Chapter No 6262. After holding the positions of Provincial Grand Sword Bearer, Provincial Grand Registrar and Provincial Grand Scribe Nehemiah in Provincial Grand Chapter he was appointed Third Provincial Grand Principal in 2018 and Provincial Second grand Principal in 2020. He is currently Provincial Grand Communications Officer. He was invested as Past Grand Standard Bearer in Supreme Grand Chapter in 2023. He also a recently-perfected member of Rose Croix.
Stephen has a daughter, son-in-law and young family in the USA and is therefore most grateful to have a British Airways pilot as a son, which makes travel a little easier. A past Chairman and currently a Vice President of the Shropshire Horticultural Society, organisers of the Shrewsbury Flower Show, when time and weather permit he plays what he fondly considers to be golf, albeit increasingly erratically.
Ian Edgington
Provincial Grand Secretary
Born in 1963 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire where he was educated, Ian moved through his work to Shropshire in 1982 where he settled and remains to the present day.
He was Initiated into the Vale of Uscon Lodge No. 8935 in 1995 and became its Worshipful Master in 2001. He is also a member of Shropshire Installed Masters’ Lodge No. 6262, and in the Royal Arch, Eyton Chapter of St. John No. 601 and Shropshire Installed First Principals’ Chapter No. 6262. He is also the Provincial Grand Scribe Ezra in the Royal Arch.
In 2018 he was honoured with the appointment of Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies in the United Grand Lodge of England.
His hobbies include golf and cycling and he is married to Julie and has a daughter Emily who is a midwife.
Jim Tucker
I was born and raised in Manchester up to the age of ten, learning about football and acquiring a strong northern accent. My father was then appointed a headmaster in Huntingdonshire, and I found myself attending the King’s Grammar School in Peterborough, where I was taught Latin and rugby, told to forget football and lost my accent. After A-level exams (no gap year in those days), I ventured forth to Birmingham University to study Dentistry for five years, during which time I met my future wife Sue, who was studying Physiotherapy. After qualification and marriage, I worked for two years at a dental practice in the Hall Green area of Birmingham.
Wishing to live in a more rural area I settled in Sue’s home county of Bedfordshire, and built up a successful dental surgery in Biggleswade, a town whose main claim to fame is that it once burnt down. In was here that I became a Freemason, being initiated into the Ivel Lodge 6846 in February 1987, and afterwards also joining the Royal Arch and Knights’ Templar. Somehow, I was also managed to find the time to pursue my hobbies of walking, shooting and particularly still-water fly-fishing- Grafham Water being a short distance away.
After more than 35 years in Bedfordshire, having raised two daughters and gone grey, I seized the opportunity of early retirement and Sue and I moved to the north of Shropshire in 2013. I was immediately made most welcome by several lodges and became a joining member of the Roden Lodge 6243, being “volunteered” for various jobs quickly.
I thoroughly enjoy my Freemasonry in Shropshire, and it being a small Province, I am making the most of the opportunity of visiting and meeting brethren. As Confucius says: It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.