Most Worshipful Brother Roy Waldron Robinson

Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah 1955.

Brother Roy Waldron Robinson, the eightieth Grand Master of the M W. .Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. of Utah, is one of the very few Grand Masters who were natives of the State.

He was born in Salt Lake City on May 27, 1901. His parents were Latimer P. and Elizabeth Robinson, who came to Utah from Toronto, Canada, and his father was one of the early druggists of the State of Utah.

Most of his school work was done in Salt Lake City. After completing his elementary work he entered Salt Lake City East High School, from which he graduated in 1919; he received the Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Utah in 1923; the Doctor of Medicine degree at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1925 and served his Hospital Internship at the Missouri Baptist Hospital.. He affiliated with the Phi Beta Pi Medical Fraternity.

He began his professional career in 1926; at Kenilworth, Utah, where he has since continuously been Industrial Physician and Surgeon for the Independent Coal and Coke Company.

He and Miss Marion Nottage of Salt Lake City were married on October 6, 1925. They have two daughters, Mrs. Barbara Garrigues, a graduate of Stanford University, now making her home at Bishop, California; and Patricia Robinson, a student at Carbon High School. He has a sister, Miss Dorothy G. Robinson, in the teaching profession at Salt Lake City; and a brother, Dr. Frank H. Robinson, of Chula Vista, California.

He is Past President of Carbon County Medical Society; a member of the Utah State Medical Association and American Academy of General Practice. He is Past President of the Castle Valley Knife and Fork Club; Past President of the Carbon County Country Club and a member of the University Club of Salt Lake City. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Salt Lake City and has served as Senior Warden of the Episcopal Mission in Kenilworth.

Brother Robinson has for many years been very active in most all branches of Utah Masonry. He received the Master Mason degree in Joppa Lodge No. 26 on July 3, 1928 and served his Lodge as Master during the year 1933; he received the degrees in Price Chapter No. 6, R. A. M.; in Solomon Council No. 4, R. & S. M. and the Charles Fred Jennings Commandery No.6, Knights Templar during the year 1931. He was elected to the office of High Priest in 1938; Illustrious Master in 1952 and Eminent Commander in 1937. During the current year he IS serving as Right Eminent Scribe in the Grand Chapter and Grand Generalissimo in the Grand Commandery. On June 30, 1952, he was elected to the Order of the High Priesthood; on June 9, 1953, was elected to the York Cross of Honour in Utah Priory; on June 10, 1953, was elected to the order of Thrice Illustrious Master and on June 26, 1953, was elected a member of the Red Cross of Constantine, Bonneville Conclave No. 25.

In the Scottish Rite he received the degrees fourth to thirty-second in the Utah Bodies on April 25, 26, 27 and 28, 1949; was elected Knight Commander of the Court of Honour on October 20, 1953 and received the Investiture on February 13, 1954.

He was Created a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, A. A. O. N. M. S. in El Kalah Temple on April 3, 1937.

When he has completed his work as Grand Master he will have served eight years as an officer of Grand Lodge, starting as Junior Deacon in January, 1947, and completing his year as M: .W: .Grand Master on January 24, 1956.

During the many years of active service in the Fraternity in all of its branches, Brother Robinson has acquired many warm, personal friends who are sincerely happy to see him attain the top rung of the ladder of Utah Masonry and the Fraternity may well be assured of a successful administration during the year just ahead.

Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings 1956

PGM, Roy Waldron Robinson died June 15, 1983 in Price, Utah. Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1984, page72.