Elizabeth Aldworth — "Whenever a benefit was given at the theatres in Dublin or Cork for the Masonic Female Orphan Asylum, she walked at the head of the Freemasons with her apron and other insignia of Freemasonry, and sat in the front row of the stage box.

Hughan also found the facts related to contradict the statements made by an Aldworth descendant.

[3] Conder seems to be refuting an unelaborated-upon statement that Aldworth was initiated after the formation of the Grand Lodge of Ireland.

He indicates that since the Viscount died in 1727, she could not have been initiated after that point, and at that time it seems that the commonly accepted date of formation of the Grand Lodge was 1729–30.

In consequence of construction going on in the library, she was woken by the voices she heard next door, and the light shining through the loose brickwork.

When she understood the solemnity of the proceedings, she wished to retreat, but was caught by the Lodge Tyler, who was also the family butler.

[1]: 22  [note 3] Some years after Elizabeth's brother Hayes, the fourth Viscount Doneraile died without issue in 1767, the title was revived in favour of Elizabeth's son St Leger Aldworth, who adopted the St Leger surname.

She is referred to in James Joyce's Ulysses (Chapter 8)There was one woman, Nosey Flynn said, hid herself in a clock to find out what they do be doing.