Lady Elizabeth Delaval (c. 1648 – 1717) was a memoirist and Jacobite agent, whose self-reflective writings 'shed light on the upbringing and marriage arrangements of a girl belonging to a prominent royalist family.
Elizabeth Delaval was the only daughter of James Livingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh, a Scottish peer and member of the House of Commons, and his first wife, Catherine.
The following year, on the death of her mother, Elizabeth was taken into the care of her father's sister and raised by her in Nocton, Lincolnshire.
[4] She and Henry were employed by the court at St Germain-en-Laye, and - a Jacobite agent - she appears to have travelled between Paris and London during the 1690s.
[4] In the years following the death of James II, she petitioned a number of times to return to England, but was denied.