Our friend and Brother Paul David Haynes died on Friday, 15 July 2022 after a protracted battle with a brain tumour, made worse by the Covid Crisis over the last years.
Born in 1964, Paul was educated at Amesbury School and Pangbourne College. He went into the removals business, first with Hoults and then Abels before joining Cadogan Tate, rising to become Managing Director. His roles took him around the world and enabled him to meet a great variety of people at all levels of society, both of which he enjoyed enormously. He had a great love of motorbikes, often touring long distances especially in the USA, and shooting of all types. He was gregarious and outgoing, always positive, always willing to help and always honest with all he met.
Masonically speaking he was initiated as a Lewis into his father’s Lodge Whitehill Lodge No 8425 in the Province of Hampshire & Isle of Wight in 1998, being Master in 2005. He became a Provincial Grand Steward for the Province in 2008, joining the Province’s Grand Stewards’ Lodge the same year. He went on to help found the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Motorcyclists Lodge No 9939, in 2017, combining two of his great loves, and was that Lodge’s first Master, and Hampshire’s Country Sports Lodge No 9992, combining masonry with another of his passions. The Province went on to make him a Provincial Senior Grand Deacon in 2011 before Grand Lodge appointed him as Grand Standard Bearer in 2015.
He was exalted into Woolmer Forest Chapter in 2007, becoming Z in 2016. The Province appointed him Past Provincial Assistant Grand Sojourner in 2021.
One of his regrets was that his School didn’t not have a Lodge, and he was always seeking other Pangbournians in the Craft to correct this oversight, and whilst doing so became a firm fixture at the Old Wellingtonian Lodge, making many friends and becoming an Honorary Member in 2020. His desire for a School Lodge for Pangbourne remains unfulfilled.
He married twice and had recently become engaged to Anne. He had 3 children with his first wife and became a firm fixture with his step children. He died surrounded by his extended family on Friday 15 July 2022. He was 57.
