Elizabeth Hickey (1917–1999) was an Irish historian and author who lived at Skryne Castle near Tara in County Meath.
Her mother, Agnes Helen née Pennycuick, was the daughter of a civil servant in Ceylon, and the granddaughter of Brigadier-General John Pennycuick, and her father, Edward C Malet-Warden, was an Engineer-Commandant in the Royal Navy, with a particular enthusiasm for naval history,[2] while her brother, John Hamish, was later killed in the RAF while on a bombing raid over Cologne in 1941.
[citation needed] She was educated at the Nairn Academy, near Inverness in Scotland, and later she qualified with a degree in English and History from Trinity College, Dublin.
In 1941 she married Noel Sydney Falkiner Hickey, the younger son of R. S. Hickey of Hyde Park, Killucan, and had five children (Robin, Peter, Eoin – of Lucan, the former proprietor of Finnstown House Hotel – Netta and Caroline) although they later separated with Noel living in London and her staying in the castle at Skryne, County Meath.
As part of this she spent two years studying archaeology with Professor Seán P. Ó Ríordáin at University College Dublin.