Chairman of the Durham Universities Scheme

Clinton Leeks OBE

Clinton was initiated into Universities Lodge in Durham in 2002 (and raised a year later in Apollo University Lodge in Oxford) and served as Worshipful Master of Universities Lodge in 2008.

He moved to Durham in 1999 after a 25 year career in government in Hong Kong for which he received the OBE. He has watched Universities Lodge grow and flourish through its early membership of the Universities Scheme, and was appointed Chairman of the Scheme for Durham Province in mid-2019. He was promoted to Grand Rank as Past Assistant Grand Standard Bearer in 2018.

“The three Universities Scheme lodges for the Province each offer students of the Province’s universities great opportunities to learn more about masonry and develop their knowledge in congenial surroundings, with each lodge being a really good mix of university and local members. The lodges also enable those who graduate and move on to keep links with freemasonry, and with their university towns. And above all, all three lodges are good fun as well!”