Elizabeth Aldworth
The Honorable Elizabeth Aldworth (1693/95-1773/1775), born the Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger, was known as "The Lady Freemason", the only woman ever to be initiated into Regular Freemasonry.
Aldworth was the daughter of Arthur St. Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile and 1st Baron Kilmayden of Doneraile Court, County Cork, Ireland. She was married in 1713 to Richard Aldworth, Esq. Nothing else of her life is known between her initiation into Freemasonry as a young girl and her death almost sixty years later.
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