Elizabeth Hooton (1600 – January 8, 1672) was an English Dissenter and one of the earliest preachers in the Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers.
She was a middle-aged, married woman when she met Fox in 1647 in Skegby, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, and was already a Nonconformist—specifically, a Baptist.
She believed that God called her to preach, which led her to leave her family, because her husband was not at first sympathetic to Quaker ideas.
She petitioned King Charles II for justice, and used the opportunity to preach to him and inform him of the religious intolerance occurring in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Hooton embarked on her final voyage in 1670, joining George Fox on a trip to the West Indies and the American continent.
George Fox wrote about her death, "... Elizabeth Hooton, a woman of great age, who had travelled much in Truth's service, and suffered much for it, departed this life.