Elizabeth Gascoigne

She was a woman of many talents, dabbling in writing books, designing stained glass windows, playing the harp and being a charitable contributor to the community of Leeds, mainly Aberford in Yorkshire and Ashtown in Ireland.

[2][failed verification] In her childhood Elizabeth, like her sister, was taught how to read, write and be a genteel Victorian woman, with the intention of being matriarch of the household and a supportive wife.

[3] In 1844 the Gascoigne sisters commissioned the building of almshouses on the old Great North Road (A1) to commemorate the memory of their father and two brothers.

[6] On 10 February 1852 Elizabeth married Fredrick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, in Aberford, Leeds, thereby becoming a baroness.

Lord Ashtown was cousin to Fredrick Charles Trench of Dublin, who married Mary Isabella Gascoigne, Elizabeth's sister.

Elizabeth Gacoigne is painted sitting on a stool (second left)
Gascoigne Almshouses, Aberford, built 1843–1845 by George Fowler Jones for Mary and Elizabeth Gascoigne as a memorial to their father and brothers. Now offices. Long ashlar front in Perpendicular Gothic style, with elaborate central tower, many steeply pitched gables, and many outsize octagonal pinnacles. Projecting cross-wings with traceried windows, housing the chapel (l) and refectory (r), the domestic intermediate parts two-storied.