Elizabeth Bacon (died 1621)

Elizabeth Bacon
Interior of St Mary's Church, Henley-on-Thames, where Elizabeth Bacon is buried
Born	c.1541
Died	3 May 1621 (aged 79–80)
Spouse(s)	Sir Robert Doyley Sir Henry Neville Sir William Peryam
Parent(s)	Sir Nicholas Bacon, Jane Ferneley

Elizabeth Bacon (c.1541 – 3 May 1621) was an Elizabethan aristocrat. She was the Lady Neville of My Ladye Nevells Booke, an important manuscript of keyboard music by William Byrd, which was compiled in 1591.

She was the daughter of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon, by his first wife, Jane Ferneley (d.1552). She was the wife of Sir Robert Doyley, the courtier Sir Henry Neville, and the judge Sir William Peryam.

Born about 1541, she was the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon, by his first wife, Jane Ferneley (d.1552). By her father's first marriage, she had three brothers, Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave, Sir Edward Bacon, and Sir Nathaniel Bacon, and two sisters, Anne, who married Sir Henry Woodhouse, and Elizabeth, who married Francis Wyndham. By her father's second marriage, to Anne Cooke, she was the half sister of Anthony Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon.

It was initially proposed that she should marry her father's ward, William Yaxley, but the marriage negotiations fell through, and by 18 July 1569 Yaxley was married to someone else, and Elizabeth Bacon married Sir Robert Doyley of Chiselhampton, Oxfordshire, 'a member of a prominent land-owning family' and a member of parliament for Bossiney, Cornwall, in 1572. He was knighted in 1576. While serving as a Justice of the Peace at the Oxford assizes of 4–7 July 1577, Doyley and others were, according to John Stowe, infected with a 'strange sickness', whereof the jurors, including 'Sir Robert de Olie', died. Doyley made his last will on 21 July, and was buried on 29 July at Hambleden. In his will he left several properties to his widow, Elizabeth, according to Harley likely making her 'an independently wealthy woman'. There were no children of the marriage.