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Sir John Eliot

Sir John Eliot

Male 1592 - 1632  (40 years)

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  • Name John Eliot 
    Title Sir 
    Born 11 Apr 1592  Cuddenbeak, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Christened 20 Apr 1592  St. German's, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Knighted 18 May 1618  [3] 
    Will 20 Dec 1630  [4] 
    Will 27 Nov 1632  Codicil Added Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Died 27 Nov 1632  Tower of London Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Will 11 Dec 1632  Will Proved Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I00291  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 

    Father Richard Eliot,   b. Abt 1546,   d. 22 Jun 1609, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Mother Bridget Carswell,   b. Bef 24 Feb 1559/60,   d. 04 Mar 1617/18, St. Germans, Cornwall (Cuddenbeak or Port Eliot) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 58 years) 
    Family ID F00159  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife Radigund Gedy,   d. Bef 13 Jun 1628 
    Married Jun 1609  [3] 
    Children 
     1. John Eliot,   b. 18 Oct 1612,   d. Bef 25 Mar 1685  (Age < 72 years)
     2. Richard Eliot,   b. Abt 1614,   d. Between 1645 and 1648  (Age 31 years)
     3. Elizabeth Eliot,   b. Bef 29 Dec 1616,   d. Bef 01 Apr 1639  (Age < 22 years)
     4. Edward Eliot,   b. Bef 10 Jul 1618,   d. Bef 06 Apr 1710  (Age < 91 years)
     5. Bridget Eliot,   b. Bef 26 Apr 1620,   d. Bef 16 Jun 1663  (Age < 43 years)
     6. Radigund Eliot,   b. Bef 11 Oct 1622,   d. Aft 1627  (Age > 6 years)
     7. Susanna Eliot,   b. Bef 13 Oct 1624,   d. Between 02 and 07 Oct 1661
     8. Thomas Eliot,   b. Bef 07 Sep 1626,   d. Bef 16 Apr 1630  (Age < 3 years)
     9. Nicholas Eliot,   b. Bef 15 Jun 1628,   d. Bef 21 Sep 1689  (Age < 61 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00137  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

    • --- "Western Morning News" 02 Dec 1942, page 6:
      CORNISHMAN'S WARNING
      The most famous, or, to speak more correctly, the most fameworth, Cornishman of his day was Sir John Eliot, an ancestor of the Earl of St. Germans.

      An outstanding figure in that great struggle with the Crown, his speech, made while his friends Valentine and Holles prevented the Speaker of the House of Commons from leaving the chair, has lost none of its force when applied to the present day. Solemnly he uttered the warning that none had "gone about to break Parliaments but that in the end Parliaments had broken them."

      Today the struggle is with a dictatorship outside the country, but Sir John Eliot's words are still a solemn warning.

      --- West-country Poets by William HK Wright (as he found it in Worth's "West-Country Garland"), 1896
      ON SIR JOHN ELIOT
      Heer a musitian lyes whose well tuned tongue
      Was great Apollo's harpe, so sweetly strunge
      That every cadence was an harmonye.
      Noe crotchets in his musicke! Onlye hee
      Charmed the attentive burgesses alone,
      Ledde by the eares to listen to his songe.
      For innocence, sad widdowes' orphans' teares
      (The dumbe petitioners of unfeigned feares),
      How smoothly could thine eloquence alone
      Create a helpinge pittie where was none.

  • Sources 
    1. "The Life of Sir John Eliot" by Harold Hulme, 1957, page 19.

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

    3. HistoryofParliamentOnline.com.

    4. [S00020] Genealogical Memoranda relating to the families of Eliot of Port Eliot and Craggs of Wyserley, Copied from Documents in the possession of the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Germans, (Name: Name: Taylor and Company, London 1868;;).