Elizabeth Preston, Countess of Desmond and 2nd Baroness Dingwall was the only daughter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, called Black Tom, a lone Protestant in his Catholic Old English family. Her marriage and inheritance were manipulated by James I to keep Black Tom's inheritance out of the hands of his Catholic successor, Walter of the Beads and bring them into the hands of his Scottish favourite Richard Preston, Lord Dingwall.
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- 1591
- Died
- October 10, 1628
