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Elizabeth Knight (died 3 August 1860) later Elizabeth Walpole, was a British horticulturalist who bred the Black Eagle cherry. She was the daughter of the botanist Thomas Andrew Knight. In 1824, she married Francis Walpole, with whom she had a son, Horatio Andrew Walpole (1829-1855) and a daughter, Laura Sophia Frances Walpole (died 1901), who married her second cousin Frederick Walpole.

In 1816 Elizabeth Knight was presented with the Silver Medal of the Horticultural Society of London (now the Royal Horticultural Society) in recognition of the quality of the Black Eagle cherry which she had grown. Her father had written in 1814 that the new variety ... and added in 1816 that ....