Grand secretary of the Masonic lodges of Tasmania was a Baha'i for 6 years.

Mr H. A. Wilkinson, grand secretary of the Masonic lodges of Tasmania, had chaired a world religion day observance organized by the Baha’is in 1950, and had joined the community in 1952. When a 1954 article in the U.S. publication Baha’i News stated that Baha’is could not be Freemasons, the Hobart Assembly asked the National Spiritual Assembly for clarification. In its March 1956 Baha’i Bulletin the National Spiritual Assembly noted Shoghi Effendi’s directive that Baha’is not be involved in such secret societies as the Freemasons and in November 1957 reported its concern that some Australian Baha’is continued their adherence to Freemasonry, International Co-Freemasonry, and the Rosicrucian Order. Despite the clear instruction that Baha’is could not participate in secret societies, Wilkinson chose to remain a member of his Masonic lodge and in 1958 was deprived of his voting rights.

(Graham Hassall, The Baha’i Faith in Australia 1947–1963)