Eleanor Butler (7 September 1914 – 21 February 1997),[1] also known as Lady (Countess of) Wicklow, was an Irish Labour Party politician and architect.

Shortly after achieving a bachelor's degree in architecture from University College Dublin at age 24 in 1938, had a riding accident that required a year of care in St Vincent's Hospital.

[4] She became a Labour member of Dublin Corporation, and was chosen by the party in 1945 to visit Britain to investigate modern British housing.

[5] On 2 September 1959 she married William Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow, cementing a thirteen-year long courtship.

[2] Lady Wicklow was attached to the Moral Re-Armament movement, and in the 1970s became deeply concerned about The Troubles in Northern Ireland.