Elizabeth Petty, Baroness Shelburne
Elizabeth Waller, Baroness Shelburne was an Anglo-Irish peer.
Elizabeth Waller was born in Castleton, County Limerick, one of the four daughters of Elizabeth Dowdall and Sir Hardress Waller.Her father was one of the regicides who condemned Charles I to death. After the Restoration of Charles II he was in his turn sentenced to death after being found guilty of regicide, but he was reprieved, and died in prison. Her mother was noted for her spirited defense of the family home, Kilfinny Castle, during the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
On 23 October 1653 she married Sir Maurice Fenton, 1st Baronet. They had a daughter Margaret and a son William. Margaret died in 1667 unmarried. William died in 1670.
In 1667 she married secondly Sir William Petty. Lady Elizabeth and William Petty had four children:
Lady Petty was created Baroness Shelburne on 13 December 1688 suo jure by James II. On the same day her eldest son by William Petty, Charles Petty, became Baron Shelburne.Footnotes
