Richard Eliot

Richard Eliot

Male Bef 1652 - Bef 1685  (< 33 years)

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  • Name Richard Eliot 
    Born Bef 22 Apr 1652 
    Christened 22 Apr 1652  St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Died Bef 22 Dec 1685 
    Buried 22 Dec 1685  St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I00310  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 

    Father John Eliot,   b. 18 Oct 1612,   d. Bef 25 Mar 1685  (Age < 72 years) 
    Mother Honor Norton,   b. Bef 05 May 1611,   d. Bef 01 Nov 1652  (Age < 41 years) 
    Family ID F00096  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

    • Died a bachelor.

      --- "The House of Commons, 1660-1690" Vol. 1, page 260:
      Eliot, Richard (1652-85), of Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall.

      St. Germans 1679 (Mar.), 1679 (Oct.), 1681

      Ensign, Plymouth garrison 1676-8.
      Commr. for assessment, Cornwall. 1679-80.

      As a younger son Eliot was intended for a military career and in 1676 entered the service at Plymouth garrison under the Earl of Bath. In 1678, however, the justices for the Western circuit received a warrant to suspend the execution of any sentence passed on him should he be found guilty of the death of one John Grimes of Plymouth. Possibly this incident caused him to leave the army, for there is no further evidence of his military career, though he must have been either acquitted or pardoned, since he was returned to the Exclusion Parliaments for his father's borough of St. Germans. Classed as 'honest' by Shaftesbury, he duly voted for the first exclusion bill. Otherwise he was totally inactive. He was buried at St. Germans on 22 Dec. 1685.

  • Sources 
    1. [S00008] St. German's Parish Records, www.cornwall-opc-database.org, (Name: Name: Name: Online Parish Records;;;).