Was there a Provincial Grand Lodge in Madras? Or was it District Grand Lodge of Madras under the UGLE?

Madras had both, functioning sequentially as a Provincial Grand Lodge and then as a District Grand Lodge under English authority 121.

The English Masonic presence in the region was originally organized as a Province, with early appointments including Captain Edmond Pascal as Provincial Grand Master in 1766 2. A united Provincial Grand Lodge was subsequently established in 1787 under Brigadier-General Home 1. The body operated as a Provincial Grand Lodge through the early and mid-nineteenth century under Provincial Grand Masters such as Sir Herbert Compton and Lord Elphinstone 1.

Around 1866, the Grand Lodge of England altered its administrative terminology 12. Overseas groupings that had previously been designated in English records as Provinces were reclassified as Districts to distinguish them from domestic English Provinces 12. This shift occurred during the tenure of Colonel Pitt Macdonald, at which point the entity officially became the District Grand Lodge of Madras under the United Grand Lodge of England 1.