Elizabeth’s second marriage, in 1741, was to John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington.
She retained control of her existing property and gained the estate of Saffron Walden after a successful legal challenge against her distant relative, Thomas Howard, 2nd earl of Effingham.
[1] In 1752 she purchased the dilapidated country house Audley End, which had previously been in the Griffin family, from Effingham.
She carried out renovations to the house and grounds which retained its Jacobean style on the advice of the London builders John Phillips and George Shakespear.
[2] In 1760, she used her Griffin family right to nominate the master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, appointing George Sandby.