Brother Robert Graham Hatfield was born at Plainfield, New Jersey on October 29, 1936. In 1945 his family moved to a farm in Peterborough, New Hampshire where he attended schools and graduated from Peterborough High School in 1955. He served in the United States Army from 1958 to 1964. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree cum laude ;from New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire in 1969.

On July 22, 1972 he married Margaret L. “Peggy” MacNeil and they have two children, John and Brenda and one Grandchild.

Brother Hatfield retired from the New Hampshire Department of Revenue in 2000, having worked there as Tax Administrator since 1969. He and Peggy operated the Maplehurst Inn in Antrim, New Hampshire from 1978 to 1986. He recently sold a sand and gravel business that he had operated since 1998. He is a Notary Public and Justice of the Peace and he has variously held jobs as a real estate salesman, tax accountant, licensed securities salesman, bartender and farmer. In his spare time he enjoys antique cars, collecting stamps and coins, and cutting firewood to feed a cast iron cook-stove that is still in use today in the more than two hundred and twenty three year old house that he and Peggy call home.

He served as Town Auditor for the Town of Weare, New Hampshire from 1973 to 1993 and as Chairman of the Finance Committee in 1987 and 1988. He has been the Assistant Town Treasurer since 2005.

Brother Hatfield was made a Mason in Harmony Lodge No. 38 of Hillsborough. He received the Entered Apprentice Degree on June 17, 1970, was Passed to the Degree of Fellowcraft on September 16, 1970 and was Raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason on November 4, 1970. In 1971 he was appointed to the Progressive Line of the Lodge and served as Worshipful Master from 1981 to 1983. he served as the Lodge Marshal in 1984 and was elected as the Lodge Treasurer in 1984, a position that he continues to hold.

In the York Rite he is a member of Trinity Royal Arch Chapter No. 2 and served as High Priest in 2000 and 2001; Horace Chase Council No. 4, Royal and Select Masters and has been Treasurer since 1994; and Mount Horeb Commandery No. 3 where he served as Commander in 2004-2006. He received the Order of the Purple Cross in 2005.

In 1979 he joined the Scottish Rite and he is a member of Alpha Lodge of Perfection; Ariel Council, Princes of Jerusalem; and Acacia Chapter of Rose Croix, all of Concord and is a 32nd Degree member of the New Hampshire Consistory in Nashua. 

He is a member of the New Hampshire Society of Veteran Freemasons; the Red Cross of Constantine; Profile York Rite College No. 100; the Order of High Priests; the Holy Royal Arch Knight Masons; Scenic Council Knight Masons; the National Sojourners; the Swords of Bunker Hill and the Royal Order of Scotland. He received the DeMolay Legion of Honor in 2007.

Brother Hatfield served as the District Deputy Grand Lecturer for the Fourth Masonic District in 1985 and 1986 and as District Deputy Grand Master in 1987 and 1988. He served as the Grand Lecturer from 1994 to 1998. In 1998 he was appointed to the progressive line of Grand Lodge and on May 19, 2007 was elected and installed as the 111th Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New Hampshire.
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