SPEAKERS 2027

Dr Richard Berman served as Worshipful Master of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 (London, UGLE) during the 2018–2019 term. He is a distinguished historian of Freemasonry and has twice been appointed Prestonian Lecturer by the United Grand Lodge of England (the Prestonian Lecture is the only annual lecture delivered under the authority of the United Grand Lodge of England).

An elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Ric holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in History from the University of Exeter. He subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford’s Modern European History Research Centre.

As a historian and Visiting Research Fellow, Dr Berman writes and lectures on American, English and Irish Freemasonry, focusing particularly on its place in eighteenth-century society and the impact it had upon it. He is the author of numerous articles published in specialist journals and approximately ten books, and has delivered lectures and presentations around the world.

A Freemason for more than forty years, Ric holds Grand Rank in the United Grand Lodge of England and is a Past Master of three English Lodges, including Quatuor Coronati, the world’s leading Masonic research Lodge. He also chairs the Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle (QCCC), the world’s oldest Masonic research society.

Ric is also an American Freemason, holding membership or honorary membership in Lodges across seven US states. He is a Fellow of the Philalethes Society and a “Blue Friar”.