ABSTRACT
Nearly everything that has been written by or about omas Dunckerley over the past 250 years has involved his role in promoting Freemasonry. As we have seen, omas Dunckerley was a great promoter of himself, and as Freemasonry became an increasingly important part of his public persona he appears to have drawn little distinction between furthering it, and furthering himself as a leading o cer and exemplar of the Cra .
