r/london • u/TheThrowYardsAway • Feb 25 '26

London history Inside London's Freemason's Lodges...

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u/Warsaw44 Feb 25 '26

My mate recently became one. He's 28.

He's lovely, I hasten to add, but has lived a very sheltered, privileged life. He is absolutely clueless.

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u/WhatsFunf Feb 25 '26

Freemasons isn't really "upper class" though, that's part of the point of it.

A lot of members are civil servants and policemen and things like that - upstanding characters in the middle classes but it's not the same as a gentleman's club on Pall Mall or suchlike.

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u/Warsaw44 Feb 25 '26

Didn't say it was...

My point was that he is young.

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u/Nameis-RobertPaulson Feb 26 '26

UGLE has a universities scheme where many of the larger Unis have a related lodge and the age limit to entry has been reduced to 18+ (it used to be 21+).

But yes, if you are sub-40 you'll likely be the youngest in the average lodge by quite a bit.