June Knowles (24 June 1923 – 14 October 2012), better known by her pen name Elizabeth Watkins, was an English author, brought up in Kenya, where her parents - Oscar Ferris Watkins (1877–1943) and Olga Florence née Baillie Grohman (1889–1947) - had started a coffee farm outside Nairobi, and later educated at St Anne's College, Oxford.In 1941, aged just 18, she falsified her age in order to join up with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force as a cypher officer. Serving in Cairo at the height of the Eighth Army's she worked at the Heliopolis signals base and other secret locations translating top secret signals for the British High Command, including relaying intercepted German Ultra traffic, intelligence considered so secret that it was not even shared directly with the other Allies. Later posted to Kenya to be with her dying father, she was then sent to the Seychelles, where she supported the dangerous work of the Catalina crews of the Canadian and allied air forces, flying vital anti-submarine missions to protect the sea routes to India. Subsequently volunteering for further active service she was posted to Caserta to do cyphers for the Allied advance into Southern Italy.In 1949 she married Oliver Staniforth Knowles (1920–20018) in Nairobi, they had met at Oxford University. They had four sons.Watkins died on October 14, 2012 at the age of 89 at her home in Oxford, after a short illness.

Elizabeth Yates McGreal (December 6, 1905 – July 29, 2001) was an American author. She is perhaps best known for her 1951 Newbery Medal-winning novel Amos Fortune, Free Man. She also received the Newbery Honor in 1944 for Mountain Born. She began her writing career as a journalist, writing travel articles for publications such as The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Many of Yates' books were illustrated by British artist Nora S.

Elizabeth Upton, Baroness Templetown (1746/47 - 1823) was an English artist whose designs were used by Josiah Wedgwood the potter. She specialised in detailed cut-paper work which adapted well to Wedgwood's jasperware with white bas relief scenes on coloured backgrounds. He first chose one of her designs in 1783, and his 1787 catalogue referred to her "exquisite taste" and "charming groups". Several of the designs Wedgwood used have a feminine or domestic theme.

Elizabeth Yates McGreal (December 6, 1905 – July 29, 2001) was an American author. She is perhaps best known for her 1951 Newbery Medal-winning novel Amos Fortune, Free Man. She also received the Newbery Honor in 1944 for Mountain Born. She began her writing career as a journalist, writing travel articles for publications such as The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Many of Yates' books were illustrated by British artist Nora S. Unwin.Her autobiography consists of three volumes: My Diary – My World (1981), My Widening World (1983), and One Writer's Way (1984).

Elizabeth Upton, Baroness Templetown (1746/47 - 1823) was an English artist whose designs were used by Josiah Wedgwood the potter. She specialised in detailed cut-paper work which adapted well to Wedgwood's jasperware with white bas relief scenes on coloured backgrounds. He first chose one of her designs in 1783, and his 1787 catalogue referred to her "exquisite taste" and "charming groups". Several of the designs Wedgwood used have a feminine or domestic theme. She also painted in watercolours and sculpted in clay. Of particular note were her sculptures of family, including grandchildren. A famous bust was made of her son-in-law the Marquess of Bristol.Born Elizabeth Boughton in Herefordshire, she married Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown in 1769. Their family home was Castle Upton in Templepatrick, County Antrim, Ireland. In 1776 her husband became Baron Templetown and she was then addressed as Lady Templetown.Lady Templetown stayed in Rome a lot towards the end of her life, dying in 1823. Her brother, Charles, was a Member of Parliament.Her children included:Elizabeth Albana Upton, who married Frederick, 1st Marquess of Bristol

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls (21 February 1850 – 3 August 1943) was a key suffragist in the campaign for votes for women (also called 'suffrage') in South Australia during the 1890s. She took on several high profile roles in the capital of South Australia, Adelaide and was President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of South Australia, one of the most prominent organisations in the successful campaigns which made South Australia the first of the Australian colonies to grant women the right to vote in 1894.