The Viscountess Mordaunt | |
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 Elizabeth Carey in 1656, after an original by Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate | |
| Born | Elizabeth Carey, 1632/3 |
| Died | 1679 |
| Spouse | John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt |
| Children | 11+, including Charles |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Carey Margaret Smith |
Elizabeth Mordaunt, Viscountess Mordaunt (née Carey, 1632/3 – 1679) was an English royalist conspirator and diarist. She is credited with contriving the acquittal of her husband, the zealous but unsuccessful conspirator John Mordaunt, for treason in 1658, and she acted as an intelligencer for the royalist network in 1659. A lifelong friend of writer John Evelyn, she kept a private devotional diary which was published in 1856.