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Somerset Lodges
Admiral Blake No. 4692
warranted 1924
Regular meetings: the fourth Tuesday at 18.45hrs Jan, Feb, Mar, Sept, Oct, Nov.
Also the third Tuesday at 18.30hrs Dec.
Installation meeting: the fourth Tuesday at 16.30hrs Apr.
Contact the Lodge Secretary:R. Johnstone-Smith
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Meeting at
The Masonic Hall
King Square
Bridgwater
TA6 3DH
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A
petition to form a new craft lodge in Bridgwater was forwarded to Grand Lodge on
14 November 1924. It was accepted and now the Admiral Blake Lodge is one of only
three Lodges whose name can be associated with the Parliamentarian leaders of
the Civil War.
In 1598 Robert Blake was born in the house, which is now the Admiral Blake Museum.
Records show that he was christened in St Mary’s Church on September 27th 1598.
After the Civil War he was well known in England as a statesman and soldier, but
it was his later naval career that gave him the fame he deserved.
Robert Blake was educated at Bridgwater Free Grammar School and recommended for
a university education. In 1614, at the age of 16, Blake went up to Oxford and
enrolled at St Albans Hall. Two years later he moved to Wadham College and
graduated with a BA degree in 1618.
In 1640 Robert Blake was elected as a Member of Parliament, to what was to become
known as The Short Parliament. He failed to get re-elected to Parliament in
November of the same year.
Suffering from old wounds Robert Blake died at 10.00am on the 7th August 1657 as
his ship, the George entered Plymouth Sound. He received a State Funeral and was
buried in Westminster Abbey on the 4th September 1657.
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