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| name = Elizabeth,
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| caption = Elizabeth Lady Wilbraham - by [[Peter Lely|Sir Peter Lely]]
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1632|02|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Weston
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1705|07|27|1632|02|14|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Weston
| spouse = Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 2nd Baronet (married c. 1651)▼
▲| spouse = Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 2nd Baronet
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'''Elizabeth, Lady Wilbraham''' (née Mytton; 14 February 1632 – 27 July 1705)
It has been suggested that she was the first woman [[architect]], and whose work may have been attributed to men.
==Early years==
Elizabeth Mytton was born into a wealthy family and, aged 19, she married [[Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 3rd Baronet|Thomas Wilbraham]],<ref name="Indy first lady">Jay Merrick [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/elizabeth-wilbraham-the-first-lady-of-architecture-2215936.html ''Elizabeth Wilbraham, the first lady of architecture''], ''The Independent'', 16 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-06.</ref> heir to the [[Wilbraham baronets|Baronetcy of Wilbraham]]. They went on honeymoon together, travelling throughout Europe. She made this an opportunity to take an extended architectural study tour.
In the Netherlands, Elizabeth Wilbraham met architect [[Pieter Post]],<ref name="Indy first lady" /> creator of the [[Dutch Baroque architecture|Dutch baroque]] style of architecture. She studied the works of [[Andrea Palladio|Palladio]] in [[Veneto]], Italy and the [[Landshut Residence|Stadtresidenz]] at Landshut, Germany.<ref name="AJ first woman">John Millar [http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/critics/the-first-woman-architect/8608009.article ''The first woman architect''], The Architects' Journal, 11 November 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-06.</ref>
==Personal life==
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==Claims that she was first known woman architect==
Historian John Millar claims that Elizabeth Wilbraham is the first known woman architect.<ref name="Indy first lady"
During the seventeenth century it was impossible for a woman to pursue a profession and Millar stated that Lady Wilbraham used male executant architects to supervise construction in her place.<ref name="Indy first lady" /> Millar believes she designed more than a dozen houses for her family and, because of the inclusion of distinctive and unusual design details, has been put forward by Millar as the designer of 18 London churches (officially attributed to [[Christopher Wren]]).<ref name="Indy first lady" /> Because Wren came late to architecture, Millar has suggested Elizabeth Wilbraham as his most likely tutor.<ref name="Indy first lady" /> Millar has gone as far as suggesting as many as 400 buildings as possible works of Elizabeth Wilbraham. They all generally show similarities with Italian or Dutch architecture.<ref name="AJ first woman" /> Wilbraham owned a 1663 edition of [[Andrea Palladio|Palladio]]'s book ''[[I quattro libri dell'architettura|I Quattro Libri]]'' (volume I) and she heavily annotated it.<ref name="AJ first woman" />
In the authoritative and encyclopaedic ''Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840'' (4th Edn; 2008) by Sir Howard Colvin, however, she is mentioned only once. That notation is as a patroness of architecture.
However, Millar himself admits that not a single letter or signed drawing survives with Willbraham's name on it connecting her with any project. His argument is based around the annotations in her copy of Andrea Palladio and similarities he claims to have found in buildings built at the time. His claim that she designed 400 buildings is equally based on visual similarity.<ref name="nytimes" />
▲Millar has gone as far as suggesting as many as 400 buildings as possible works of Elizabeth Wilbraham. They all generally show similarities with Italian or Dutch architecture.<ref name="AJ first woman" /> Wilbraham owned a 1663 edition of [[Andrea Palladio|Palladio]]'s book ''[[I quattro libri dell'architettura|I Quattro Libri]]'' (volume I) and she heavily annotated it.<ref name="AJ first woman" /> In the authoritative and encyclopaedic ''Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840'' (4th Edn; 2008) by Sir Howard Colvin, however, she is mentioned only once. That notation is as a patroness of architecture. In her dissertation from 2002, Canadian historian, Cynthia Hammond mentions the "awkward designations" given to Lady Wilbraham by [[Nikolaus Pevsner]]. She notes his lack in saying "by Wilbraham" to denote an eroding of Wilbraham's authorship when discussing Weston Park.<ref>Hammond, Cynthia Imogen. ''Wings, Gender and Architecture: Remembering Bath England''. 2002. Concordia University, PhD dissertation.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-invisible-women-how-female-architects-were-erased-from-history?tkn=1|title = The Invisible Women: How female architects were erased from history|date = 8 March 2017}}</ref>
==Notable projects==
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