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Elizabeth Paulet

Elizabeth Blount was born in Burton upon Trent, where her family was prominent. Her parents were the M.P. Walter Blount of Nether Hall, Burton and later of Blount's Hall, Staffordshire, and his wife Margaret or Mary. Her first marriage was to Anthony Beresford of Thorpe, Derbyshire. She then married Sir Thomas Pope, a wealthy landowner who founded Trinity College, Oxford. Pope's death left Elizabeth a rich widow and she afterwards married Sir Hugh Paulet. She died in 1593 and was buried, with Thomas Pope and his second wife Margaret, in a tomb she had built in the chapel at Trinity College.