Keith Gilbert PSGD
Assistant Provincial Grand Master
Keith was born in Lambeth, London in 1945. After attending secondary school in Tooting Bec, he went on to train as a teacher in Worcester. He started teaching in Warwickshire, before being promoted to schools in Nuneaton and then Liverpool. During this time he obtained degrees from Leicester and Liverpool, and was then appointed as head of Denbigh High School in Luton. Moving from Blundellsands on the edge of Liverpool in 1983, Keith moved to Harpenden where he still lives. In 1991 he was appointed as one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools, a post from which he retired in February 2005.
In 1973 Keith was Initiated into his father’s Lodge, Radius No 5474, meeting at Freemasons’ Hall, London. His moves around the country resulted in membership of Athelstan Lodge No 1333 in Warwickshire and Skelmersdale Lodge No 1380 in West Lancashire, where he was Installed as Master in 1983. This Lodge handed in its warrant in October 2006. He joined Harpenden Lodge, where he was Secretary for ten years, before becoming Master in 2001. Keith is a member of Herts Masters’ Lodge, was Secretary of and then Master of the Provincial Grand Stewards’ Lodge and is Secretary of White Star Lodge and the Lodge of the Red Rampant Lyon. He was appointed a Provincial Grand Steward in 1995, was Provincial Grand Registrar in 1997, 1999 and 2000 and was Provincial Deputy Grand Secretary from 2001 to 2003. He received the rank of PAGDC in 2004 and PJGD in 2011. Although still working, Keith was able to assist in the Provincial Office over the seven years before being appointed Provincial Grand Secretary in 2004.
Joining Harpenden RA Chapter in 1984, Keith was MEZ in 1995; he was MEZ of the Provincial Grand Stewards’ Chapter in 2005. He received the rank of PPGSoj in 1999 and the rank of PAGDC in Supreme Grand Chapter in 2005. A member of Harpenden and White Stone Mark Lodges, he was Master of Harpenden Lodge in 1995 He was appointed ProvGSO in 1997, Provincial Charity Steward in 2001 and received PAGDC in 2004. He was Commander of Harpenden RAM in 1994 receiving ProvRAMGR in 1999 and RAMGR in 2011. Keith’s only other commitment is to the Rose Croix Chapter of St Alban.
Keith is married to Jane and they have four children, the three girls each providing them with a granddaughter. Although their son and one of the daughters live locally, the other two are in Suffolk and the USA. Although Keith enjoys occasional sojourns to the sun, cycling and gardening, he has no other hobbies other than Masonry, his time being taken up with family life with Jane, his wife, and their children.
