King Alfred Lodge No. 2945
Possible explanation to the name. It seems that when the Lodge was founded there was a local personality where the first Lodge met in Enfield. Sir Alfred Somerset who was a JP, Chairman of the Gas Company, President of the Musical Society, a member of the Enfield Chase Stag Hunt and all-round good bloke, not to mention an Irish Freemason. He was well liked and jocularly referred to as Alfred the Great. A direct male-line descendant of King Edward III of England, Sir Alfred served as both Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex and Justice of the Peace for Middlesex. He married Adelaide Harriet Brooke-Pechell on 24 September 1857. They had one daughter, Gwendolin.
The Lodge had originally intended to be called the Edward Letchworth Lodge after the Grand Secretary at that time. This was turned down by Grand Lodge. The name King Alfred then was approved. Grand Lodge would not have known that there may have been subtle reference to the local “hero” as well as to the King of the Anglo Saxons.”
From: Let Them Eat Burnt Cakes - Provincial Grand Lodge of Middlesex (pglm.org.uk)