Sir John Eliot, 1st Baronet
Sir John Eliot, 1st Baronet (1736 – 7 November 1786) was a Scottish physician and Physician to the Prince of Wales.
Life
Eliot, the son of a
Prince of Wales
.
When attending the Prince during an illness in 1786, Eliot told
Grace Dalrymple, who ran away with Lord Valentia
in 1774. Eliot obtained £12,000 damages.
He lived in
Bishops Hatfield, and a tablet to his memory, with some lines by Edward Jerningham
on it, was put up by his uncle, William Davidson.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Elliott, John (1736–1786)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. [4]
- ^ Rosemary Mitchell, 'Ogborne, Elizabeth (1763/4–1853)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2014 accessed 14 March 2015
- ^ "No. 11894". The London Gazette. 25 July 1778. p. 1.
- ^ "Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. VII". The Gentleman's Magazine. 184: 355. 1848. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ODNB corrects the 1885 spelling. "Sir John Eliot must be distinguished from John Elliot MD(1747–1787), with whom he has frequently been confused; the latter's publications have often been attributed to Sir John Eliot, who, as far as it is known, did not publish anything."
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