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Eleanor Brooksby
Eleanor Brooksby was a British noblewoman who, along with her sister Anne Voux, supported Catholics in England during the 16th century by providing safe houses including Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire and White Webbs in Enfield Chase near London for Jesuit missionaries such as Henry Garnett and was later involved in the Gunpowder Plot.
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