Other Events:

• Education: Bef 1784, Liskeard School, Cornwall
• Education: 23 Sep 1784, Entered Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Degree: 1786, Awarded M.A.
• Residence: 1791, Spring-garden Terrace, London
• Military Service: 1792, Lieut. Royal Cornwall Militia
• Military Service: 1792, Ensign, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Occupation: 1793, Charge d'Affaires, Berlin
• Elected: Nov 1791 - 1793, Secretary of Legation at Berlin
• Elected: Aug 1793 - 1794, Secretery of Embassy to the Hague
• Military Service: 1795, Captain, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Elected: 1796, Envoy to Munich
• Elected: Dec 1796 - 1798, Minister to Elector Palatine and Diet of Ratisbon
• Elected: 07 Jan 1791 - 1802, M.P. for St Germans, Cornwall
• Military Service: 1803, Major, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Member: 1804, Lieut.-Colonel, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Elected: Jul 1800 - Jan 1804, Lord of the Admiralty
• Occupation: 05 Jun 1804 - 24 Jan 1805, Under Secretery for Foreign Affairs
• Military Service: 1807, Colonel, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Elected: 1810, Mayor of Liskeard
• Occupation: Mar 1807 - Jan 1812, Lord of the Treasury
• Address: 1810-1815, 37 Hanover-square, London (Rented)
• Address: 1815-1816, 34 West Street, London (Rented)
• Visiting: Oct 1816, Leaves Batts's Hotel, Dover-street, for the Continent
• Title (Facts Pg): 17 Nov 1823, 2nd Earl of St. Germans (Suc. Bro. John)
• Elected: 1802 - 17 Nov 1823, M.P. for Liskeard, Cornwall
• Appointment: 9 Jan 1824, Recorder of Liskeard
• Residence: 12 Feb 1824, Earl of St. Germans Left London for His Seat in Cornwall
• Occupation: 1823-1833, Recorder of Liskeard
• Resignation: 11 Feb 1833, Borough of Liskeard (Position of Alderman)
• Residence: 1825 - 19 Jan 1845, 7 New Burlington-street
• Residence: 1835 - 19 Jan 1845, Stables at 8 Burlington Mews Old

Notes:

William married Georgiana Augusta Leveson-Gower on 30 Nov 1797 in St. Michael & All Saints, Trentham, Staffordshire. Georgiana (daughter of 1st Marquess of Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower and Marchioness of Stafford Susanna "Susan" Stewart) was born on 13 Apr 1769 in Earl Gower's House in Whitehall, London; was christened on 14 May 1769 in St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London; died on 24 Mar 1806 in Madeira; was buried on 05 May 1806 in Eliot Family Vault, Old Cemetery, St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
• "Derby Mercury" 21 Dec 1797, page 4:
Lately at Trentham, in Staffordshire, by the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, the Honourable Wm. Eliot, Esq. M.P. to the Right Honourable Lady Georgina Augusta Leveson Gower, daughter of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford.

• "Derby Mercury" 21 Sep 1797, page 2:
It is reported that Lady Georgiana Gower, daughter to the Marquis of Stafford, is in the course of a few days to be led to the Hymeneal Altar by the Hon. Wm. Elliot, Member for St. Germain's.

• "Staffordshire Advertiser" 23 Sep 1797, page 3:
Lady Georgina Gower, daughter to the Marquis of Stafford, is expected in a few days to be espoused to the Hon. William Elliot, Member for St. Germain's, Cornwall; this is supposed to be the cause of her brother, Lord Gower, not setting out for Lisle on Tuesday.

1. 3rd Earl St. Germans, Edward Granville Eliot was born on 29 Aug 1798 in Plymouth, Devon; was christened on 04 Oct 1798 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 07 Oct 1877 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 16 Oct 1877 in Eliot Family Plot, St. Germans, Cornwall, England.
2. Caroline Georgiana Eliot was born on 27 Jul 1799 in Plymouth, Devon; was christened on 29 Aug 1799 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 22 Apr 1866 in St. Michael's, Bogner, Chichester, Sussex; was buried on 27 Apr 1866 in South Bersted, Sussex.
3. Susan Caroline Eliot was born on 12 Apr 1801; was christened on 10 May 1801 in St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London; died on 15 Jan 1835 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 22 Jan 1835 in Eliot Family Vault, St. Germans, Cornwall, England.
4. Charlotte Sophia Eliot was born on 28 May 1802; was christened on 21 Jun 1802 in St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London; died on 08 Jul 1839 in Park Hill House, Torquay, Devon; was buried on 16 Jul 1839 in Chancel of Harberton Church, Devon.

William married Letitia A'Court on 07 Feb 1809 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire. Letitia (daughter of William Pierce Ashe A'Court and Letitia Wyndham) was born on 09 Aug 1778 in Salisbury, Wiltshire; was christened on 25 Sep 1778 in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire; died on 20 Jan 1810 in Her Home, Cleveland-Court, St. James's, London; was buried on 01 Feb 1810 in Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Heytesbury, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
• Wiltshire and Swindon Archives on A2A:
101/173/3 7 Feb 1809
Marriage settlement made on the marriage of William Eliot and Latitia A'Court.

(Received an e-Mail from Archives dated 04 Mar 2013):
I have a quick look at the lengthy deed and it appears that the sum of £1000 and a sixth share in £2500 in 3% reduced bank annuities was to be settled on any children of the marriage.

1. Baby Twin Eliot was born on 20 Jan 1810 in Cleveland-Court, St. James's, London; died on 20 Jan 1810 in Cleveland-Court, St. James's, London.
2. Baby Twin Eliot was born on 20 Jan 1810 in Cleveland-Court, St. James's, London; died on 20 Jan 1810 in Cleveland-Court, St. James's, London.

William married Charlotte Robinson on 07 Mar 1812 in House of the Earl of Powis, Berkeley Square, Westminster. Charlotte (daughter of John Robinson and Rebecca Clive) was born on 26 Mar 1784; was christened on 26 Mar 1784 in St. George Hanover Square, Westminster, London; died on 03 Jul 1813 in Hanover Square, London, England; was buried on 09 Jul 1813 in St. George's, Hanover Square, London (Bayswater Street Burial Ground). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
• "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921" (Westminster, St George Hanover Square, 1812, 10):
Marriage Record reads: "The Honorable William Eliot of this Parish widower and Charlotte Robinson Spr. of the Parish of Denston in the County of Suffolk were married in the dwelling House of the Rt. Honorable The Earl of Powis in Berkeley Square in this Parish by Special Licence of the Archbishop of Canterbury this seventh day of March in the Year 1812 by me Edwd Ebor."

• "Morning Chronicle" 10 Mar 1812, page 3:
On Saturday were married, by special licence, by the Archbishop of York, at the Earl of Powis's, in Berkeley-square, the Hon. Mr. Eliot, brother of Lord Eliot, to Miss Robinson, daughter of General Robinson. Immediately after the ceremony, the happy pair set off for their seat at Twickenham.

• "The Annual Register" Volume 54, 1812, page 157:
Honourable W. Elliot, brother to Lord Elliot, to the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-general Robinson, of Denston-hall, Suffolk.

1. Baby Eliot was born on 24 Jun 1813 in Hanover Square, London, England; died on 24 Jun 1813 in Hanover Square, London, England.

William married Countess St. Germans Susanna "Susan" Mordaunt on 30 Aug 1814 in Chapel of Walton, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. Susanna (daughter of 7th Baronet John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Prowse) was born on 15 Dec 1779; was christened on 05 Jan 1780 in Westminster, London; died on 05 Feb 1830 in Fulford Park, Devon; was buried on 12 Feb 1830 in St. Swithin's, Shobrooke, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:

• "Derby Mercury" 01 Sep 1814, page 1:
The Hon. Wm. Eliot, brother to Lord Eliot, will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar the amiable and accomplished Miss Susan Mordaunt, youngest daughter of the late Sir John Mordaunt, Bart. and sister to Sir Charles, one of the present worthy Representatives in Parliament for the county of Warwick.

• "London Star" 23 Aug 1814:
The Hon. Mr. Eliot, brother to Lord Eliot, will shortly lead to the hymeneal alter Miss Susan Mordaunt, youngest daughter of the late Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., of Warwickshire.

• "Warwickshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1910" (Wellesbourne, 1800-1824, 14):
Marriage Record Transcription: "The Honble William Eliot of the Parish of St. Geroge Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex, Widower, and Susan Mordaunt of this Parish, Spinster, were married in the Chapel of Walton by Special Licence with Consent of _________ this thirtieth Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, By me Fras Miles - Rector of Barford

In the Presence of : Charles Mordaunt and John Erskine"

Other Events:

• Education: Bef 1742, Liskeard School, Cornwall
• Education: 05 Apr 1742, Entered St. Mary Hall, Oxford (aged 15)
• Education: 1746 - 1748, Grand Tour
• Elected: 1750, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1753, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1760, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1767, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 12 Dec 1748 - 1768, M.P. for St. Germans
• Elected: 1769, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1773, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1768 - 1774, M.P. for Liskeard
• Elected: 1774 - Nov 1775, M.P. for St. Germans
• Occupation: 1759 - 1776, Lord of Trade
• Elected: 1777, Mayor of Liskeard
• Friendship: Mar 1781, First Met James Boswell
• Elected: 1783, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 15 Nov 1775 - 13 Jan 1784, M.P. for Cornwall
• Title (Facts Pg): 30 Jan 1784, Created "Baron Eliot", 1st Baron Eliot
• Occupation: 02 Feb 1784, Takes Seat in House of Lords
• Title (Facts Pg): 15 Apr 1789, Added "Craggs" to his Surname
• Residence: 1791, Spring-garden Terrace, London
• Subscription: 1798, 'Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe' (6 copies)
• Resignation: 1800, Recorder of Liskeard
• Occupation: 13 May 1749 - 17 Feb 1804, Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall
• Probate: 10 Apr 1804, London, England

Notes:

"History of the Borough of Liskeard", John Allen, 1856:

1782: "as a testimony of our gratitude to the family of Eliot, for rebuilding the guild hall, and making the market place in every respect so commodious, we the grand jury take this public method of returning our most hearty thanks for the same, that it may be entered in the records of this borough."

1801: "We present an alienation of a fee-farm rent, issuing out of the lands in the borough of Liskeard, from the Hon. D. Barrington, R. Cocks Esq., and Sir C. Cocks, to the Rev. T. Williams and E. Gibbon Esq., in trust for the Right Hon. Lord Eliot and Catherine his wife."

"Surveys for a canal from Liskeard to Looe, and also for one from Liskeard to St Germans, were made about the year 1800, by Bentley and Bolton of Birmingham; but the difficulties and costs were considered insurmountable, and though patronized by Lord Eliot, both schemes were then abandoned."

1804: "We present the death of the Right Hon. Lord Eliot, a capital burgess and free tenant of this borough."

Edward married Catherine Elliston on 22 Sep 1756 in St. James, Westminster, London. Catherine (daughter of Edward Elliston and Catherine Gibbon) was born on 04 Aug 1735 in Charterhouse Yard, Parish of St. Sepulchre, Holburn, London; was christened on 15 Sep 1735 in Parish of St. Sepulchre, Holburn, London; died on 23 Feb 1804 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 01 Mar 1804 in Eliot Family Vault, Old Cemetery, St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Subscription: 1798, 'Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe' (6 copies)

Notes:

Other Events:

• Education: 15 Jul 1712, Matric. Balliol College, Oxford (aged 15)
• Occupation: Mar 1718/19 - 1720, Secretary to Lord Carteret in Sweden
• Subscription: 1723, A. De La Mortray's Travels Through Europe, Asia, and into Part of Africa
• Appointment: May 1729, Auditor to HRH the Prince of Wales
• Occupation: 1722 - May 1729, Commissioner of Excise
• Residence: 29 Jan 1732/33, Molenick (Listed as Richard Eliot, esq., of Molinick)
• Political: c. 1737-1738, Enters Opposition with HRH Prince of Wales
• Occupation: 1730 - 1738, Surveyor General of the Duchy of Cornwall
• Elected: 1741, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: May 1741, M.P. for Liskeard, Cornwall
• Elected: 29 Jan 1732/33 - 1743, M.P. for St. Germans
• Elected: 1746, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1743 - 1747, M.P. for Liskeard
• Occupation: Mar 1737/38 - 19 Nov 1748, Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall
• Elected: Jul 1747 - 19 Nov 1748, M.P. for St. Germans

Notes:

--- "The Beauties of England and Wales" by John Britton, 1801, page 381:
Gives date of portrait in PE Dining Room of Richard Eliot as 1742.

--- "Journal of the Ex Libris Society" Vol 6, 1897, page 149:
No. 191.--- Eliot impaling Craggs. Arms, Azure, a fesse between four cotises wavy gules, for Eliot; quarterly, engrailed or and azure, in the first quarter an escallop shell gules, for Craggs. This is the book-plate of Richard Elliot, of Port Elliot, co. Cornwall, father of the first Baron Eliot and ancestor of the Earls of St. Germans, ob. 1748. He married Harriot, natural daughter of the Rt. Hon. James Craggs, Secretary of State to George I., ob. 1769; she had the arms impaled in the plate granted to her in 1726.

--- "Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886" (1500-1714, Volume II, E, 18 of 40):
Eliot, Richard, s. William, of St. Germans, Cornwall, gent. Balliol Coll., matric. 15 July, 1712, aged 18; B.A. 1716, auditor and receiver-general to Prince of Wales; M.P. St. Germans Jan., 1733, Liskeard 1734-47, and St. Germans 1747, until his death 19 Nov., 1748; brother of Edward 1703.

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--- "Newcastle Courant" Friday, 18 Mar 1720, page 7:
From the Evening-Post, London, March 11.
Mr. Eliot, Brother to Mr. Eliot, one of the Commissioners of the Victualling Office, is appointed Secretary to the Embassy at Paris, he was in that Station last Year in Sweden under the Lord Carteret.

--- "Stamford Mercury" 23 Mar 1721, page 8:
'Tis said, that Mr. Elliot, who was last Year Secretary to the Lord Careteret in Sweden, is appointed Secretary to the English Ambassy at Paris.

--- "Stamford Mercury" 28 May 1724, page 8:
His Majesty has been pleased to appoint George Townshend, Christopher Montagu, James Vernon, John Whetham, Roger Gale, Benjamin Mildmay, Richard Elliot, George Ducket, and Patrick Haldane, Esqrs; to be Commissioners for the Management and Receipt of the Revenues of the Excise, and other Duties, and of the Inland Duties upon Coffee, Tea and Chocolate.

--- Parker's Penny Post, Monday, 18 Nov 1726, page 3:
Last Wednesday Noon was finish'd the drawing of the State Lottery at Guildhall. No. 13,733 was the last drawn Ticket & entitled to a prize of a 1,000l. which fell to Richard Eliot, Esq; one of the Commissioners of the Excise. By the Account kept of the drawing of the Tickets, there were but four left in the Wheel.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 22 Nov 1726, page 3:
'Tis discoursed that several Indictments will be lodged next Sessions against the Stockjobbers, for base and pernicious Practices in the Lottery, the Drawing whereof ended Yesterday Forenoon, the last drawn Ticket was No. 13733, and as such a Prize of 1000 l. which fell to Richard Elliot, Esq; one of the Commissioners of Excise.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 22 May 1729, page 1:
London, May 15. Robert Eyre, Esq; is made a Commissioner of the Excise, in the Room of Richard Elliot, Esq; who is made Auditor to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for the Dutchy of Cornwall, worth 500 l. per annum.

--- "Newcastle Courant" 24 May 1729, page 1:
A new commission is preparing to pass the Seals, appointing the following Gentlemen Commissioners of the Excise, . . . the last in the room of Robert [sic] Eliot, Esq; who is made Auditor to his Royal Highness the the Prince of Wales for the Dutchy of Cornwall, a Patent Place worth about 500 l. per Annum.

---Daily Post, London, Tuesday, 17 Apr 1731, page 1:
Some Days since Richard Eliot of Port Eliot, Esq.; Surveyor-General to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, was overturned in his Coach near Dorchester, as he was going down to Cornwall, by which Misfortune his Arm was broke; but soon after it was set by Mr. Cheselden, an Eminent Surgeon, who was then in those parts.

--- Daily Post, London, Sunday, 22 Apr 1731, page 1:
Richard Eliot of Port Eliot, Esq.; Surveyor-General to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who had his Arm broke by the overturning of his Coach, as he was going down to Cornwall, is pretty well recover'd.

--- "History of the Borough of Liskeard", John Allen, 1856:
1745: "A hogshead of cider at the bonfire, and other expenses October 9th, being thanksgiving day, this paid by Mr Eliot and Mr Trelawny."
(N.B. Richard, in 1741, was the first member of the Eliot family to be appointed Mayor of Liskeard.)

--- "Derby Mercury" 18 Nov 1748, page 4:
Last Saturday died Richard Elliot, Esq; of Port Elliot in the County of Cornwall, and Member for St. German's in that County, which Borough and Leskeard he represented in four Parliaments; he was Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Prince of Wales.

Richard married Harriot Craggs on 10 Mar 1725/26 in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London. Harriot (daughter of James Craggs and Hester Santlow) was born in Feb 1712/13; died on 01 Feb 1769; was buried on 01 Feb 1769 in Outside Chancel Window (Looking in Port Eliot Garden), St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notes:

Married:
• "London Parker Penny Post" 21 Mar 1726, page 4:
On Thursday Morning last, Richard Elliot, Esq; one of the Commissioners of the Excise, was married to Mrs. Smith, a Lady of a very considerable Fortune.

• "London Journal" 19 Mar 1726:
Marriages. On the 10th, Richard Elliot, Esq; one of the Commissioners of the Excise, was married to Mrs. Smith, a Lady of a considerable Fortune.

• "The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn", 1896, Vol. 2, page 568:
Richard Eliot, Esq., of St. George's, Hanover Square, Middlesex, and Harriot Smith, of the same Parish, were married March 10th, 1725
(Old Style Date)

• FMP Parish Records Collection Marriages:
License date: 04 Mar 1726
License date year: 1726
Bride's last name: SMITH
Bride's first name: Harriot
Dual date: 04 Mar 1725/26
Groom's last name: ELLIOT
Groom's first name: Richard
Record source: Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations 1701-1850

Notes:

--- "London Journal" 31 May 1729:
. . . and the Lynn, Capt. Edward Eliston, bound for China.

--- "Daily Journal" 6 Jul 1730:
LONDON. Yesterday Morning the Purser of the Lynn, Capt. Elliston, from China, arrived in Town, having left the said Ship the Day before near Dover.

--- "Kentish Weekly Post" 30 Oct 1731, page 1:
From the Whitehall Even. Post Oct. 28.
Yesterday the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company were pleased to appoint Capt. Brown Commander of their Ship the Lynn in the room of Capt. Edward Ellistone, who hath resign'd.

--- "General Advertiser" 11 Jun 1747, page 1:
On Monday last died, at his Seat near Brentwood in Essex, after a tedious Indisposition, Edward Elliston, Esq; a Gentleman possess'd of a very plentiful Fortune, which he chiefly acquir'd with very great Credit and Reputation, in the Service of the East-India Company.

--- "Dundee Courier" 5 Jan 1933, page 12:
Men and Women of To-Day
Dundee M.P.'s Bride.

In marrying a member of Parliament from Cornwall Miss Dorothy Elliston, whose wedding to Mr. Dingle M. Foot takes place at Ipswich on Saturday, is repeating a chapter in her own family history. Catherine Elliston, daughter of Captain Edward Elliston of Overall Manor, near Sudbury, Suffolk, married in 1756 Edward Eliot, M.P. for Cornwall. He afterwards became the first Baron Eliot of St. Germans, and his son was the first Earl of St Germans. This Catherine Elliston's mother was Catherine Gibbon, aunt of the famous historian of the Roman Empire. Many politicians will attend the wedding on Saturday, and Dundee guests will include Lord Provost Buist and Mrs Buist, Mr Harry Johnston and Mrs Johnston, and Mr and Mrs John Martin.

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--- "Records of Fort St. George Diary and Consultation Book, 1726, Madras Record Office:
Fort St. George, February 1725-1726
page 17: "Paid Captain Elliston for Ten Soldier's Diet that came from Vizagaptam . . . 7 28
page 22: "Feb. 20 Ship Lynn Capt. Edward Elliston Commander sailed for London and Carried a paequet for ye Honble Court of Directors.

--- "Private Trade Between England and China in the Eighteenth Century" by Earl H. Pritchard, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1957, page 221:
The Export Trade
. . . The private trade of Captain Elliston of the Lynn (480 tons) in 1729-30 consisted of 886 ounces of gold (2,500 pounds), 58 piculs of tea (450 pounds), chinaware (318 pounds), arrack (120 pounds), 300 bundles of rattans (15 pounds), 90 cwt. of mother-of-pearl (130 pounds), 50 handkerchiefs (40 pounds), and fans, pictures, lacquered ware, etc (171 pounds), a total of 3,744 pounds --- tls. 11,232.

--- https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4911020
Live Auction 1828, 22 May 2007
Lot 169
A Very Fine George II Silver Salver, Mark of Paul de Lamerie, London, 1739.
Price Realised: $240,000

Lot Essay: Edward Elliston was in the Marine Service of the East India Company. From 1714 to 1721, he served on Dartmouth as 5th, 3rd, and finally 1st mate. He became Captain of the ship Lynn in 1724, serving intermittently until 1732. . . .

Edward married Catherine Gibbon on 27 Dec 1733 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Catherine (daughter of Edward Gibbon and Catherine "Esther" Acton) was born before 11 May 1710; was christened on 11 May 1710 in St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London; died on 24 Feb 1743/44; was buried on 02 Mar 1743/44 in St. Mary, Putney, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "London Evening Post" 28 Feb 1744, page 2
On Monday last died Mrs. Elliston, Wife of Edward Elliston, Esq; an eminent Merchant in Basinghall-Street, Sister to Edward Gibbon, Esq; Member of Parliament for Southampton, and Alderman of Vintry Ward.

--- "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (Wandsworth, St Mary, Putney, 1735-1760, 57) --- seen on Ancestry.com
Mistakenly listed as Mrs. Catherine "Allinstone".

--- "Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794" by D.M. Low, 1937, page 13:
The little we know of Catherine Gibbon is not inconsistent with the character of Flavia. She was akin to her brother's spirit and followed him into the society of such people as the Mallets after their father's death. She married her cousin Edward Elliston. Shortly after that John Byrom came to visit Law at Putney, and a comment in his diary that it was such an absurdity to come to communion with patches and paint as no Christians would have borne formerly, is clearly intended for her. Neither she nor her husband enjoyed their world for long, and their daughter Catherine, after their death, lived with her uncle till her marriage in 1756 with Edward Eliot.

--- --- "The Autobigraphies of Edward Gibbon" by Edward Gibbon, J. Murray, 1896, page 21 --- seen on Google Books:
"Of my two wealthy aunts on the father's side, Hester persevered in a life of celibacy, while Catherine became the wife of Mr. Edward Elliston, a Captain in the service of the East India Company, whom my grandfather styles his nephew in his Will. Both Mr. and Mrs. Elliston were dead before the date of my birth, or at least of my memory, and their only daughter and heiress will be mentioned in her proper place. These two Ladies are described by Mr. Law under the names of Flavia and Miranda, the Pagan and Christian sister. The sins of Flavia, which excluded her from the hope of salvation, may not appear to our carnal apprehension of so black a dye. Her temper was gay and lively; she followed the fashion in her dress, and indulged her taste for company and public amusements; but her expence was regulated by economy: she practised the decencies of Religion, nor is she accused of neglecting the essential duties of a wife or a mother."

Notes:

Married:
• "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (City of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, 1697-1740, 123):
Edward Elliston of the parish of St. Peter Cornhill London, Bachelor, and Catharine Gibbon of Putney in the County of Surrey, Spinster, were married with a License from the Archbishop's Office in this Cathedral Church the 27 day of December 1733 by me (Williams Gibbon) . . . present Wm. Reyner

Notes:

This is one of the few undocumented Eliots in the line of ancestry connecting the Earls of St. Germans to Sir John Eliot. William's parents were both native to Cornwall, his father from St. Juliot, his mother St. Erth. It's likely that William himself was also born in the area, but many of the local churches have lost their earliest parish registers, so a baptism record for William (and his three siblings) has not turned up.

Based on documents viewed at Port Eliot during the 19th century, William was listed in the 1868 Genealogical Record as an Officer in the Royal Navy, living at Cuddenbeak (a leased house on the Port Eliot estate) by leave of his cousin and owner of the estate, Daniel Eliot. Surviving mortgages and legal documents record his name as "William Eliot, gentleman of Lewannick", Lewannick being a neighboring parish whose tithes were vested in the Eliot family.

At some point before 1693, William married Ann Williams, the daughter of Lawrence Williams of Ireland; they were blessed with four sons and two daughters. Since records have yet to turn up for their marriage or the births of their first four children, it may be that they were married in Ireland and lived there for a time. As an officer in the Royal Navy, it is very likely that William spent some time in Ireland. Sadly, the Admiralty records were very poor at that time and do not even offer a complete list of officers, let alone any clues as to their times and places of service.

By the summer of 1693, William and his wife were back in Cornwall, their fifth child being baptised at St. Germans in June and buried in September. They were still there, living at Cuddenbeak, when their last child, Richard, was born in September of the following year. Eight years later, in 1702, their oldest son, Edward, inherited the Port Eliot estate from William's cousin, Daniel Eliot. It seems likely that the whole family would have lived at Port Eliot, but if there is any surviving evidence of that, it's hidden in an attic or unmarked trunk.

The date and place of William's death and burial, like his birth and baptism, are a total mystery at this time. The best clues available come from a handful of legal documents, the first pair of which (dated January 1687) shows William Eliot securing the tithes and messuages in "churchtown" in Lewannick for his heirs forever. According to a documented lawsuit dating from January-March 1702/03, William's wife was a widow, and his son's estate was being handled by the trustees appointed in Daniel Eliot's will. This narrows the time of William's death to the years between the writing of Daniel's will in 1694 and the beginning of 1702/03. He was not buried at St. German's, either in the churchyard or the Eliot family vault. His wife was buried there in April 1723, and a large stone slab on the floor of the church is dedicated to "Ann, relict of William Eliot, Esq.". This is the only memorial remaining for this grandfather of Edward, 1st Lord Eliot, through whom all of the Earls of St. Germans descend.

William married Ann Williams. Ann died on 11 Apr 1723; was buried on 20 Apr 1723 in Eliot Family Vault, St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- Transcription of St. German's Floor Slab Memorial:
Here lyes the Body of Ann
Relict of William Eliot, Esq.
By whom she had four sons
And Two Daughters
She departed this Life
On the 11 day of April
In the year of our Lord
Lamented by all that knew her.

To her Verteous and Pious memory
This Stone was Laid
By her truely affectionate
And Dutifull Daughter in law
Elizabeth Eliot.

Arms carved on above slab are those of Eliot and Williams. The Williams Arms shown are those of the family of the Williams of Thame (Oxfordshire) and Burfield (Burghfield), Berkshire.

--- Aside from the fact that Ann and her husband lived at Cuddenbeak by 1693, almost nothing is known about this Eliot grandmother. Even though her father is recorded in family records as "Lawrence Williams of Ireland", was he a relative of the Williams family of Thame and Burfield? A connection has yet to be established between the families, but the arms on the floor slab belong, without doubt, to that family.

--- "Heraldic Church Notes from Cornwall", by Arthur Jewers, pub. Mitchell and Hughes, 1889, page 71-72:
"The next to claim our attention is the series of monuments of the St. Germans family, the earliest of which is no earlier than 1723. It is a floor slab in memory of Ann, relict of William Eliot, Esq., by whom she had four sons and two daughters. She died 11th April 1723, and to her memory this stone was placed by her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Eliot.

This lady was a daughter of Lawrence Williams, of Ireland, her husband being an officer in the Royal Navy, and son of Nicholas, fifth son of Sir John Eliot, of Port Eliot. Their children were --- Edward, who inherited Port Eliot from his cousin Daniel Eliot; Richard, who succeeded his nephew James, and was ancestor of the earls of St. Germans; and two sons, who died young; Catherine, married to Sir Nicholas Trevanion; Elizabeth, married the Rev. Samuel Trewbody, rector of Jacobstowe, at St. Germans 7th of November 1719, and buried there 31st of August 1726."

Other Events:

• Cause of Death: Small Pox
• Occupation: 13 Apr 1717, Appointed Secretary at War

Notes:

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 20 Dec 1720, page 5:
We hear that . . . a Marriage being forward between Mr. Secretary Craggs and the Widow of the late Edmund Dunch Esquire, Daughter to Colonel Godfrey.

[This lady's name is Elizabeth, and the parents are Charles and Arabella (Churchill) Godfrey.]

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 14 Feb 1721, page 3:
From the Evening Post
London, February 9.
These two or 3 Days Past, Mr. Secretary Craggs has been indisposed, and yesterday Morning about Eleven the small Pox came out upon him.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 20 Feb 1721, page 6:
From Wye's Letter, February 14.
'Tis fear'd Mr. Secretary Craggs will hardly recover of his Indisposition of the small Pox.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 21 Feb 1721, page 4:
Wye's Letter February 16, verbatim.
This Afternoon the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Craggs departed this Life.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 20 Dec 1726, page 3:
The Earl of Oxford has set up, at his own Expence, a Marble Monument in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of the learned Dr. Grab, who was in the highest Esteem for his great Skill in all Parts of Learning and Antiquity. We shall not omit to mention, that another Monument is going to be set up in the same Abbey to the Memory of the late Mr. Secretary Craggs. We hear nothing concerning Mr. Kinght; but the Year 1720 will be a standing Monument to future Generations.

James married Hester Santlow. Hester (daughter of John Santlow and Joan "Joana" Kingswell) was born about 1690; died on 15 Jan 1773 in Great Russell St., St. George, Bloomsbury; was buried on 21 Jan 1773 in St. Laurence Church, Cowley, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1734, West Side of Charles Street, London
• Will: 02 Feb 1769
• Probate: 03 Mar 1773

Notes:

--- "The Public Advertiser" 24 Sep 1772, page 3:
We are informed that Mrs. Booth, who has lately erected a Monument to the Memory of her Husband, Barton Booth, Esq; the celebrated Player, is now upwards of ninety-two Years of Age. She was formerly the famous Miss Santlow, so much admired as an Actress and Dancer.

--- "Weekly Magazine or Edinburgh Amusement" Volumes 19-20, 1773, page 160:
[Jan.1773]15. At London, Mrs Booth, relict of Barton Booth, Esq; who died in 1733, to whose memory she had erected an elegant monument in Westminster-abbey, which she had compleated just before her death.

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-- "The Streets of London" by W.H. Davenport Adams, 1890, page 153:
Mrs. Barton Booth -- Gay's "Santlow, famed for dance" -- died here in 1773. Miss Hester Santlow's charms brought to her feet some of the most eminent men of the time, including "the hero of Blenheim." In 1709 [sic] she married Barton Booth the great actor, bringing with her an ample dowry. After her marriage she abandoned the ballet, and made her appearance as Dorcas Zeal, in Shadwell's Fair Quaker of Deal, with genuine success. "The gentle softness of her voice," says Cibber, "the composed innocence of her aspect, the modesty of her dress, the reserved decency of her gesture, and the simplicity of the sentiments that naturally fell from her, made her seem the amiable maid she represented." She survived her husband forty years.

--- "Some Account of the English Stage" Vol. 3 by John Genest, 1832, page 375:
Mrs. Hester Booth in all probability did not act after this season -- she seems to have been a pleasing actress with no great powers -- Theophilus Cibber speaking of her as Mrs. Santlow says -- "She was a beautiful woman, lovely in her countenance, delicate in her form, a pleasing actress, and a most admirable dancer; generally allowed, in the last mentioned part of her profession, to have been superiour to all who had been seen before her, and perhaps she has not been since excelled."

--- "The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland" Part 1, by Theophilus Cibber, page 33:
In the year 1719 Mr. Booth married the celebrated Mrs. Hester Santlow: --- She was a beautiful Woman, lovely in her Countenance, delicate in her form, a pleasing Actress, and a most admirable Dancer; generally allowed, in the last-mentioned part of her profession, to have been superior to all who had been seen before her, and perhaps she has not been since excelled: -- But, to do her Justice, she was more than all this, -- she was an excellent good wife; -- which he has frequently, in my hearing, talked of in such a Manner, as nothing but a sincere heart-felt gratitude could express; and I was often an eyewitness (our families being intimate) of their conjugal felicity. Her tender careful attendance on him, during his tedious illness, will not soon be forgot by his friends.

--- "The Dancing Master" Translated from French by J. Essex, 1728:
We have had a great many women attempt to be Theatrical Dancers, but none ever arrived to that height and pitch of applause as the incomparable Mrs. Booth, in whom art and nature are so beautifully wove together, that the whole web is of a piece so exquisitely formed to length and breadth, that the produce of the many different characters she represents is the wonder and admiration of the present age, and will scarce be credited by the succeeding. I shall beg leave to mention the Chaconne, Saraband, Menuet, in all which she appears with that grace, softness, and address none can look on but with attention, pleasure and surprise. She far excels all that went before her, and must be the just subject of imitation to all that dare attempt to copy after her. Besides all these, the Harlequin is beyond description, and the Hussar another opposite character in which she has no rival. All which show how many extensive as well as extraordinary qualifications must concentre in one person to form so bright a genius: A subject becoming the most elevated wit to describe, and the politest taste to contemplate.

--- "The Cornhill Magazine" Vol. 16 - 20, 1867, page 477:
Wilks looked at this "hash," and did not object to it. He was to play Orlando himself, he said, and he did, having for the first Rosalind on record as played by a woman, Mrs. Booth, the "Santlow, famed for dance," of Gay. Wonderful woman she was, with her dash of aristocratic beauty, and her all-conquering ways, and her supreme love for her husband; in token of which, and to indicate her enduring sorrow thirty years after his death, this first of our Rosalinds erected the tablet to his memory in Westminster Abbey, which still exists, but which, through dust, damp, and darkness, can now be deciphered only with difficulty.
. . . A handsomer pair than the Orlando and Rosalind who presented themselves on the stage of Drury Lane, on the 9th of January, 1723, the stage could not then supply. How they acted is nowhere on record; but Wilks's Orlando must have lacked no grace the part demanded; and Mrs. Booth's Rosalind was, in all probability, marked by more sauciness than passionate feeling in sentiment or expression. One thing is certain, that the public did not take to the piece kindly, and that they manifested a desire to have Shakspeare's original play, and not Johnson's mangling of three or four, to make an imperfect medley out of one perfect whole.
Whence came this English Rosalind no biography can tell. She first took the town by storm as a dancer. Terpsichore herself seemed to have visited the earth in the person of Hester Santlow, one of whose great points in the ballet was to let her clustered auburn hair suddenly loose over a pair of lustrous shoulders that carried the hearts of the whole house upon them. She was so full of fascination that even Marlborough would have given her gold for a smile; and Craggs, a cold Secretary of STate, did give her a house, where he was master and she was mistress. The daughter of that equivocal household married (successively) into the families of Hamilton and Eliot, whereby the present Marquis of Abercorn and Earl of St. German's are representatives or descendants of the earliest of our English Rosalinds, who left the ballet for comedy, but who was hardly equal to the exigencies of Shakspearean dramas. Yet her gifts were many; she had a soft, sweet voice, a refined aspect, and much intelligence, but she who originated, with such marked success the part of Dorcas Zeal left no mark in Rosalind.

Notes:

--- "The Herald and Genealogist" Vol. 5, edited by John Nichols, 1870, page 426:
We now recur to Peter, who, on the failure of his brother John's issue in 1653, succeeded to the representation of the family.

This Peter Elliston was baptized in 1626, and died in 1672. He left three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver.
Peter the second son died in 1680.
Oliver the third son was of St. Paul's church-yard. He married in 1692 Hester daughter of Matthew Gibbon and his wife Hester, and had a son, Capt. Edward Elliston of South Weald, co. Essex.

John the eldest son of Peter was born in 1659, succeeded to the Overhall property, and died in 1691, leaving three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver, and four daughters all under age (will pr. in P.C.C.).
The sons Peter and Oliver died in 1691.
John the eldest and only surviving son succeeded to the family property, and died in 1738-9 without issude, leaving his cousin, Edward Elliston, his heir (will proved in P.C.C.).

This was the Capt. Edward Elliston above mentioned as the son of Oliver Elliston and his wife Hester, nee Gibbon.

--- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 82, Supp. 1797, page 1107:
[Part of an article, "Memoirs of the Family of Mr. Gibbon the Historian"]
. . . Mr. Matthew Gibbon had issue, by Hesther, his wife, one daughter, Hesther, married to Oliver Elliston, of St. Paul's church-yard, stationer.

--- UK Directories on Ancestry:
Name: Oliver Elliston
Dates: 1701-1725
Location: London
Occupation(s): stationer book/paper/printing trades(s)
Source Date: 1706
Source Info: Subscribed to A complete History of England ... to the death of ... King William, 1706, HUGHES, John. London; Subject: history

Oliver married Hester Gibbon on 11 Jun 1692 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London. Hester (daughter of Matthew Gibbon and Hester Abrahall) was born before 14 May 1676; was christened on 14 May 1676 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London; died before 07 Apr 1713; was buried on 07 Apr 1713 in St. Augustine the Less, Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:

Marriage Record Transcription:
Oliver Elliston of St Faith's, and Hestor Gibbons of St Olaves Honn[?] Street married.

Other Events:

• Probate: 13 Jan 1736/37, London, England

Notes:

--- "Newcastle Courant" Saturday, 12 September 1724, page 2:
From the St. James's Evening Post, London, Sept. 3.
The same Day [1 Sep 1724], the Trustees appointed by Act of Parliament for raising Money out of the Estates of the late Directors of the South-Sea Company, met in the Hall of the South Sea House, and proceeded to the Sale of that of Edward Gibbon, Esq; situate in the Mannor of Lenborough, &c. in the County of Bucks, which was put up in one Lot at 8480 l. and was sold for 8485 l. to himself. The second Lot being Timber and Wood upon the Premisses, in the Mannor of Petersfield in Hampshire, put up at 3070 l. was sold for 3075 l. to Francis Acton, Esq; there being no other Bidders.

--- "The Gentleman's Magazine" December 1736, page 749:
Deaths.
[Dec] 25. Edw. Gibson, Esqr [sic] at Putney. He was one of the Commissioners of Customs in the latter Part of Q. Anne's Reign, and one of the Directors of the S. S. Sea Comp. in the Year 1726.

--- "Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794" by D.M. Low, 1937, page 6-8:
In the year 1720 the South Sea Bubble was pricked; in a moment of time the nation's speculative frenzy changed into a vindictive clamour against those upon whom a few hours previously they had been pressing their anxiety to share in certain and unlimited wealth.

The facts were obscure of unprecedented complexity, and it was only clear that there was no help in the law. This was nevertheless instantly felt to be one of those major calamities in the midst of which legality is silent, and Parliament took upon itself the task of interpreting the country's moral indignation. If some people could be made to smart, everyone would feel better. There were members of the government such as Lord Sunderland or Mr Secretary Aislabie upon whom the blow might have fallen as well as on any, but the chosen victims were the members of the committee of the South Sea Company. They were held under arrest for a time, they were compelled to make sworn returns of their property, they were forbidden to alienate any part of it, and then a Parliament -- whose own prolonged existence was of doubtful validity -- sat to consider what was to be done to each culprit. They were to be punished severely, perhaps reduced to beggary.

Prominent among these scapegoats was Mr Edward Gibbon, a successful army contractor, a member of the Board of Customs in Queen Anne's last administration, a man of Tory convictions and suspected Jacobite sympathies. His fortune had been declared at a sum above a hundred thousand pounds, and after Parliament had exhibited every mood from justifiable concern to the most reckless spite and puerile levity, the vote on him decided that all was to be given up with the exception of ten thousand pounds.

But one of whom Bolingbroke had remarked that he had never conversed with a man who more clearly understood the commerce and finances of England was a match for the country gentlemen's assembled wisdom. By settlements which were secure in law, whatever moral judgments might be passed on them, he had already safeguarded a great part of his fortune*, and while his grandson, the historian, remarks that by his skill and industry and credit (which appears to have been little damaged) he created a second fortune not inferior to the first, it must be noted that the great part of the landed property, which he was to bequeath eventually, was already in his possession before the disaster of 1720. In fact, when the dust of the battle subsides, he is decently established at Putney in a fine house with ninety-two acres of land. There he reigned for the remaining sixteen years of his life a tyrant to his family, as we are told, and the oracle of his neighbours among whom he was the oldest, richest and wisest.

* "The Particulars and Inventory of Edward Gibbon, Esq., 1721".
'The freehold estate at Putney, the manor of Lenborough and farm, the manors of Buriton and East Mapledurham, the reversion of Moon's farm and 1/36 share in the New River Water were in pursuance of marriage articles dated 28th-29th March 1720 settled and conveyed to my late mother Hester Acton and Francis Acton and their heirs in trust for my wife's jointure and other uses.' But Mr. Gibbon had married in 1705! His personal property was sworn at £75,072 15s. 2d. and real estate £35,970 10s 4d., a total of £111,043 5s. 6d. Allowing for debts and an interest in his late mother's estate -- she died in 1721 -- the net amount was £106,543 5s. 6d. His furniture and plate were valued at £1208 3s. 4d. Being in Black Rod's custody cost him £130.

Edward married Catherine "Esther" Acton on 09 May 1705 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Catherine (daughter of Richard Acton and Anne Llewellyn) was born before 29 Jan 1687/88; was christened on 29 Jan 1687/88 in St. Andrew's, Undershaft, London; died before 11 Apr 1722; was buried on 11 Apr 1722 in St. Mary, Putney, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
• "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (City of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, 1697-1740, 12):
Mr Edward Gibbons Gentleman, and Mrs Katherine Acton of the Parish of St. Helen's Bishops Gate were marryed by License in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's this 9th of May 1705 by me Sam. Eltwike (?)

• "London, England, Extracted Parish Records" on Ancestry:
16 Apr 1705 Edward Gibbon, Esq., of St Helen's the Great, London, Bachelor, 30, & Catherine Acton, of same, Spinster, 16; consent of uncle & guardian Francis Acton, of St Andrew Undershaft, Mercht, brother & an Ex'or of Richard Acton, decd, father of said Catherine; at St Paul's Cathedral or St Helen's the Great. London: - Marriage Licences, 1611-1828