Career
Born in 1890 in Liverpool, Sullivan is believed to have organized a group named the Order of Twelve from 1911-1914 and again from 1920. As a journalist, playwright and actor George Alexander Sullivan used the name Alex Mathews. In the context of his mystical activities he used the name Frater Aureolis.
The ROCF operated first from Liverpool area of England and then from the mid-1930s onwards from the Christchurch area.
The group’s headquarters was a wooden building called the Ashrama Hall, completed in 1936 on the grounds of Catherine Chalk’s house on Somerford Road near Christchurch, England. Gerald Gardner’s biography by Jack Bracelin (although said by Frederic Lamond to have been written by Idries Shah) mentions the group.
George Alexander Sullivan died in 1942.