Scotland – Robert Burns links to Freemasonry explored in new project


Scotland - Robert Burns links to Freemasonry explored in new project

(by Jody Harrison, The Herald, 6th December 2024)

 

He is Scotland’s bard and renowned the world over as the rustic man of letters whose verses would go on to inspire a nation in the centuries after his death.

But Robert Burns also had an active life in a society which continues to this day, and though his connections are known about, they have been little explored.

Now Scotland’s largest university has appointed a dedicated scholar for a groundbreaking project examining the poet’s links with the Lodge, and how they influenced his life and work.

The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies (CRBS) has commissioned Patrick Jamieson as its new Burns and Freemasonry scholar to carry out pioneering PhD research into the Scots icon’s past.

Burns was not only a prolific writer, but also a dedicated Freemason throughout his adult life, serving as Senior Warden of Lodge St Andrew, Dumfries, until…

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