My father the Freemason: Letter

Sir: I was delighted to see a large and beautiful picture of my father adorning The Independent ("Masons make better jurors, say judges", 15 October). Moreover it was a picture of him I had never seen before.

However, as I understand matters there are two problems with the juxtaposition of that story with my father's picture. To be a juror in the United Kingdom you must satisfy two conditions. Firstly you must be on the electoral register. As a Polish national all his life, my father never was.

Secondly you must be alive: a condition which, sadly, he became unable to fulfil last year. However I am absolutely certain that my father, Henry Carr, would have been extremely proud to have been able, posthumously, to represent the Freemasons in this small way, probably for the last time.

JOHN CARR

London E8