Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Eliot
Personal details
Born(1727-07-08)8 July 1727
Died17 February 1804(1804-02-17) (aged 76)
Port Eliot, Cornwall
Resting placeSt Germans, Cornwall
Spouse
Catherine Elliston
​
(m. 1756)​

Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot (

Baron Eliot
.

Life and career

He was born to

Sir Joshua Reynolds. Another sister, Elizabeth, married Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers
.

In 1742, he matriculated at

Member of Parliament for St Germans, Cornwall, the place of his family estate Port Eliot. In succession, he became Member of Parliament (MP) for Liskeard (1768–1774), for St Germans (1774–1775), and for Cornwall
(1775–1784).

In 1751, Edward was appointed

Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall. From 1760 until 1776, Edward was one of the eight Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, and in 1775 he again became Receiver General of the Duchy. However, in 1776 he notably voted against the employment of Hessian Troops, and resigned from the Board of Trade and Plantations
, and from the government.

On 13 January 1784, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eliot, of St Germans in the County of Cornwall,[2] and took his seat in the House of Lords on 2 February 1784. On 15 Apr 1789, according to the stipulation in his Craggs-estate inheritance, he changed his surname from Eliot to Craggs (on occasion using "Craggs Eliot" instead of Edward Craggs Lord Eliot). At the same time, the Eliot arms were quartered with those of the Craggs family and used by Edward and his sons.

Eliot was an acquaintance of

Dr Samuel Johnson and a friend and patron of Sir Joshua Reynolds
.

Family

Port Eliot in St Germans, the Eliot family seat

On 25 September 1756, he married Catherine Elliston (September 1735 – 23 February 1804), daughter of Captain Edward Elliston and Catherine Gibbon, the aunt of Edward Gibbon, at St James' Church, Westminster.

Together, they had four children:

  1. Edward James Eliot (9 August 1757 – September 1757)
  2. Edward James Eliot (24 August 1758 – 17 September 1797)
  3. John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans (30 September 1761 – 17 November 1823)
  4. William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St Germans (1 April 1767 – 19 January 1845)

Eliot died at his Port Eliot estate on 17 February 1804, and he was buried at St Germans, Cornwall

References

  • Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Eliot, Edward" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 17. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  1. ISBN 9780788408755
    . Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. ^ "No. 12514". The London Gazette. 27 January 1784. p. 3.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas Potter
Thomas Potter 1748–1754,
Anthony Champion 1754–1761,
Philip Stanhope 1761–1765,
William Hussey 1765–1768,
Samuel Salt
1768 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Member of Parliament for Liskeard
1768–1774
With: Samuel Salt
 Succeeded by
Preceded by
Member of Parliament for St Germans
1774–1775
With: Benjamin Langlois
 Succeeded by
Preceded by
Member of Parliament for Cornwall
1775–1784
With: Sir William Lemon, Bt
 Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation
Baron Eliot

1784–1804 		Succeeded by

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