Author: DAY, BROTHER JOHN .
Title: Memoir of the Honble. Elizabeth Aldworth of Newmarket Court, Co. Cork . Who was Initiated into the Ancient Order of Freemasonry at Doneraile House, Co. Cork. Published By Brother John Day.
Description: Cork: Printed by Guy & Co. Ltd, 70 Patrick Street, 1941 . Third Edition ( With revisions and additions ). Copyright. 0. Scarce copy: Elizabeth Aldworth - The only woman ever admitted to the Masonic Order and her initiation around 1710. 9.0" x 5.75" . pp.37 . Light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. One light blue paint spot to the front board. White endpapers. Clean throughout. No library marks or other ownership details. Compass and square frontis. Printed title. Text very clean. With 9 colour and black & white illustrations. ** The Lady Freemason (1693-1772) . Perhaps the most intriguing story in connection with Munster Masonry concerns the Hon. Mrs Elizabeth Aldworth (nee St Leger), the only Lady Freemason. She was born in 1693, the fourth child and only daughter of Viscount Doneraile, who was himself a keen mason. The story states that Lord Doneraile held Lodge meetings at Doneraile Court from time to time. On one occasion (c.1712), some building work had been partially completed whereby two rooms were to be connected by an arch. Lord Doneraile and other masons held a meeting in one of the rooms not realising that Elizabeth was in the other room having fallen asleep whilst reading. The sound of voices awakened her and, her curiosity aroused, she removed a loose brick in the wall and observed the proceedings. It is reported a staff member discovered her. The members of the lodge, under the circumstances, felt they had to initiate her. At this time, she was a young girl, not more than nineteen years of age. She remained an interested member of the order until her death in 1772. **** Typed letters include: Lady Castleton to Mrs Hanford Flood 20 Oct 1907; 4 letters dated 29 Sept 1911; 12 Oct 1911; 19 Oct 1911 & Nov 11 1911; all from John Day (the author) to Mis A. H. Flood . ***** "Alice Hanford Flood, was born in Kilkenny Farmley, Leinster, Ireland about 1856, daughter of William Hanford Flood (1809 - 3 May 1892) and was the was a sister to Mary Frances Hervey. In 1881 she was living with her father at Wollas Hall, Pershore, Worcestershire. In 1901, a 44 year old spinster, living at 16 Queens Road, Paddington, London and as Miss A. H. Flood of Thurston, she exhibited a watercolour at the 3rd Suffolk Art and Aid Association exhibition held at The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmund's on 23 October 1908. In 1911, a 55 year old, living at Thurston Cottage, Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk, the home of her brother-in-law Col. Constantine Hervey.

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