W.Bro. Eric Drinkwater P.G.J.O. |
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Worshipful Brother Eric Drinkwater P.G.J.O. is the | |
Provincial Grand Master’s Special Representative for the | |
Warrington and Widnes Group, which also includes | |
St. Helens and Prescot Mark and RAM Lodges. | |
Eric, much to his delight was a Grand Steward in June | |
2004, promoted to Grand Junior Deacon 2009 and again | |
to P.G.J.O. in 2014. He is heavily involved with the West | |
Lancashire Grand Stewards Mess, which meets twice a year. | |
A spring meeting, usually a dinner, with just the Grand | |
Stewards, and the summer gathering with their wives | |
also. This summer gathering can either be an evening | |
dinner, or as happened recently, a weekend away. | |
He is also Chairman the Warrington Masonic Hall, and is | |
very appreciative of his Board members, for all their help |
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and support. | |
But what about his life away from Freemasonry. | |
Married to Tegwen, they have two daughters. Kate (a lawyer) and Sara (a medical doctor), and two | |
Grandchildren, Henry aged 4 years and Tilly who is 12 weeks old. Henry spends many happy hours with | |
Taid, (Welsh for Grandpa), riding in the tractor or the JCB doing jobs, or mending fences on Taid’s farm. | |
They also enjoy having to take Toby (a very large, soft black Labrador), for long walks in the fields, and | |
they also enlist Nain, (Granny), on these walks. We are just waiting for Tilly to be old enough to put on | |
her overalls, and to join in the fun! | |
Eric also owns a telecommunications company. The company acquires sites, on behalf of major Telecom | |
companies, to erect the masts for mobile phone companies, complete with the aerials and cabinets, to | |
enable you to use your mobile phone. | |
He has held a PPL(H) for several years, and in his spare (?) time, enjoys flying his helicopter around the | |
country, with his family and friends. | |
He is also a very enthusiastic DIY person, who can turn his hand to most things. Tegwen says this is fine, | |
but wishes he could finish one job completely before starting the next, but all the unfinished jobs only | |
seems to be completed when they move house, and as they have only moved three times in forty six years, | |
you can see that is not often! | |
The whole family have spent many happy times on the Lleyn Peninsula, (North Wales), sailing, windsurfing, | |
water skiing and fishing. Their daughters still count sailing as one of their main outdoor activities, and Sara | |
also enjoys running half marathons…..a sport which Eric has never embarked on! Tegwen enters the ‘Race | |
for Life’ every year in Chester, but that is only 5k, which she says is enough for her. | |
Eric is very grateful to Tegwen for all the help and support she gives him, in everything that he does. | |
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