Elizabeth Preston, Countess of Desmond

Elizabeth Preston, Countess of Desmond and 2nd Baroness Dingwall (née Butler; c. 1585 – 1628) was the only daughter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, called Black Tom, a lone Protestant in his Catholic Old English family. Her marriage and inheritance were manipulated by James I to keep Black Tom's inheritance out of the hands of his Catholic successor, Walter of the beads and bring them into the hands of his Scottish favourite Richard Preston, Lord Dingwall.