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Odd Fellows is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London. Odd Fellows promote philanthropy, the ethic of reciprocity and charity; some grand lodges imply a Ju
Triple links, a recurring symbol among Odd Fellows internationally
John Wilkes (1725–1797), initially a young radical journalist, then gradually more conservative; one of the first documented Odd Fellows.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet (1726–1784), an Odd Fellow who famously advocated civil liberties and reliefs in the United Kingdom, including Catholic emancipation. Subsequently, the Odd Fellows became religiously and politically independent.
Prince George the Prince of Wales, later King George IV of the United Kingdom (1762–1830), admitted in 1780, was the first documented of many odd fellows to also adhere to freemasonry; both societies remained mutually independent.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is a non-political, non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. E
Odd Fellows
…customs and ceremonies of British Odd Fellows and in light of post-colonial American sovereignty, the American Odd Fellows became independent as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (always written as Odd Fellows, not Oddfellows like other orders) under British-American Thomas Wildey (1782–1861), soon constituting the largest…
Seal of the IOOF Sovereign Grand Lodge.
British–American Thomas Wildey (1782–1861) founder of the Washington Lodge No 1
Oddfellows' Hall in Streetsville, Mississauga, Ontario, built in 1867. The building was sold in 1972.
Seal of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the IOOF, from certificate (1871).