Notable figures

Notable figures

• James Anderson 1679–1739
  Compiler of the 1723 Constitutions

  Presbyterian minister and Mason who compiled and published the Constitutions of the Free-Masons in 1723 under the authority of the Premier Grand Lodge of England. The text remains the foundational charter document of Anglo-American speculative Freemasonry.

• Albert Pike 1809–1891
  Reformer, Scottish Rite (Southern Jurisdiction)

  American attorney and Confederate brigadier who served as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite from 1859 until his death. His 1871 work Morals and Dogma rewrote the Rite’s degrees in the United States and remains widely cited, though Pike himself stated it was not authoritative.