Elizabeth Waller, Baroness Shelburne (February 1708) was an

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peer. Elizabeth Waller was born in Castleton,

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, one of the four daughters of Elizabeth Dowdall (died 1658) and Sir Hardress Waller (–1666). Her father was one of the

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who condemned

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to death. After the

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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 defence of the family home, Kilfinny Castle, during the

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. On 23 October 1653 she married Sir Maurice Fenton, 1st Baronet (–1664). They had a daughter Margaret and a son

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. Margaret died in 1667 unmarried. William died in 1670. In 1667 she married secondly Sir William Petty (1623–1687). Lady Elizabeth and William Petty had four children: * Anne Petty (died November 1737) * John (–) * Charles Petty, 1st Baron Shelburne (1672–1696) *

Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne PC (I) (22 October 1675 – 17 April 1751) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1727. Background Petty was a younger son of Sir William Petty and Elizabeth, Baro ...

(1675–17 April 1751) Lady Petty was created Baroness Shelburne on 13 December 1688 ''

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'' by James II.Owen, W, L. Davis and J. Debrett (1790) - ''The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (etc.)''
p. 122. Here it is said that she was created Baroness by Charles II; this was in fact James II. On the same day her eldest son by William Petty, Charles Petty, became Baron Shelburne.

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