According to historian kathy L. Emmerson: Elizabeth Stonor was the daughter of Sir Walter Stonor (d.1550), Lord Lieutenant of the Tower, and Anne Foliot. She was the second wife of Sir William Compton (d.1528) and then married Walter Walshe (d.1538), a courtier by whom she had Walter, Margaret, Frances, and possibly other children, in 1529. After Walshe’s death, she married Sir Philip Hoby (1505-May 29,1558) in 1540. She was part of Queen Katherine Parr’s inner circle.