Viscount Doneraile
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Viscount Doneraile is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, both times for members of the St Leger family.
Doneraile Court, County Cork
Elizabeth Aldworth
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Elizabeth Aldworth, born Elizabeth St Leger, was known in her time as "The Lady Freemason" and was the first recorded woman to be initiated into Regular Freemasonry.
Viscount Doneraile
…title of Baron Kilmayden, also in the Peerage of Ireland. This creation became extinct in 1767 upon the death of the fourth Viscount. His daughter, Elizabeth, had a son named St Leger Aldworth, who succeeded to the Doneraile estates and assumed the surname of St Leger in lieu of his patronymic. He notably…
Aldworth in Masonic regalia, from a mezzotint of 1811
1775 burial in Saint Finbarre's Cathedral