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DAY, Brother John .:Biblio.com

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.

51505Cork: Printed by Guy & Co. Ltd. 70 Patrick Street 1941 . Third Edition With revisions and additions . Copyright. 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. Cork: Printed by Guy & Co. Ltd., 70 Patrick Street, 1941 . Third Edition ( With revisions and additions ). Copyright. hardcover

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FREER, Richard Lane:Biblio.com

Memoir of R. L. Freer Archdeacon of Hereford; Extracts of Speeches; Diary of Journey to America &c. In Memoriam. Compiled by his widow H. F. i.e. H. Freer. F.P.

41291Hereford: W. Prosser / London: Daniel Green 85 Holborn Hill MDCCCLXVI. 1866 . "Not Published.". A scarce biography of Richard Lane Freer compiled by his wife Harriet Freer for personal distribution. First and only edition. Full leather armorial binding. 8vo. 10.00" x 6.75" x 1.00" 25cm x 16.6cm x 2.6cm . Crimson calf over thick boards. Front board with the personal crest of Richard Lane Freer and the rear board has the crest of the Archdeacon of Herefordshire. Professionally rebacked at some tine in the past preserving 90% of the original spine. All page edges gilt. Bookplate to the verso of the front board: "Quatuor Coronati Lodge London No. 2076." Also; tipped-in to front endpaper is a compliment-slip: "With Mrs. Lane Freer's Compliments." Free-endpapers foxed. Sepia photo frontis with initials: "R L F" and "Hereford Photo. Company 25 Commercial St." to recto. Printed title in red & blue within a brown frame with corner decoration. Clean text throughout each page within a ruled frame. Illustrated with two sepia photographs: Bishopstone Church facing p.6; Sepia image of a large stained glass window facing p.288 . A list of attendees at the funeral of R. L. Freer includes members of: "The Masonic body of Hereford and Leominster representing the Palladian and Royal Edward Lodges." A well preserved book forming a comprehensive record of an esteemed individual. The Venerable Richard Lane Freer 1804-1863 was Archdeacon of Hereford from 1852 to 1863. Richard Lane Freer was the second son of the Reverend Thomas Lane Freer Rector of Handsworth in Staffordshire. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church Oxford where he matriculated 28 April 1824 age 18 took his B.A. in 1828 and his D.D. in 1858. He was Rector of Bishopstone cum Zazor in Herefordshire from 1830 until his death Vicar of Mansel Lacy in the same county 1840 Prebend of Hereford 1847 1863 and Archdeacon of Hereford 1852 1863 and Praelector of the Cathedral from 1861 until his death. His books were incorporated in the Dowdeswell Library at Pull Court in Worcestershire. He married Harriet Clutton 1813-1875 in 1848 . Extractfrom the Hereford Journal of November 21 1863: - "An unprecedentedly numerous gathering of ' the craft ' assembled at leominster on monday to celebrate the anniversary of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Herefordshire; but the occasion was one possessing unusual interest from the fact that a vote of condolence would be passed in Grand Lodge to the relict of the late Right Worshipful the Deputy-provincial grand Master the Venerable Archdeacon of hereford Richard lane Freer D.D. whose decease had caused deep grief not onlyamongst the masonic body but throughout the diocese in which he was revered and esteemed as it only falls to the lot of few to be." Hereford: W. Prosser / London: Daniel Green, 85, Holborn Hill, MDCCCLXVI. [1866] . "Not Published." hardcover

Chilton Books · Royaume-Uni180,00 £GB≈ 205,52 €

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