The PhD scholarship is funded by Scottish Freemasons and offered at the University of Glasgow.
The University of Glasgow has launched a PhD scholarship on the topic of ‘ Robert Burns & Freemasonry’.
The role will also include travelling for research purposes to other notable locations. Full-time fees and a stipend are included for a period of three years. They will be supervised and have access to resources from within the world-class Centre for Robert Burns Studies . He swiftly passed to the degree of fellowcraft and was raised to the degree of Master Mason on October 1, 1781. He remained a fervent freemason all his life and recounted as one of his greatest honours that at a meeting of Lodge St. Andrew in Edinburgh in 1787, he was toasted by the worshipful Grand Master, Most. Worshipful brother Francis Charteris, later Lord Elcho, with the words “Caledonia and Caledonia’s Bard, Brother Burns”.
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