Other Events:

• Occupation: Between 01 Sep and 31 Oct 1887, In Germany with Prince Christian, Albert Victor and Princesses Victoria and Louise of Wales
• Census: 1851, Vicarage House (Mortimer School) as a Scholar
• Education: Between 17 Sep 1851 and 1853, Eton (Left Winter Term 1853)
• Education: 04 Jun 1857, Matric. Christ Church, Oxford (aged 17)
• Military Service: 31 Dec 1858, Ensign & Lieutenant (Grenadier Guards)
• Visiting: 1862, Pitfour, Perthshire, Scotland
• Military Service: 03 Oct 1862, Rank of Captain (Grenadier Guards)
• Military Service: 1868, Retired from Grenadier Guards
• Military Service: 1869, Captain (Royal Cornwall Rangers)
• Occupation: 01 Dec 1869, Appointed Equerry to HRH Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
• Census: 1871, Belvoir Castle as Equarry to Prince Christian
• Census: 1871, 2 Kensington Gardens, Kensington, Brompton, London
• Occupation: Between 14 Jan 1871 and 1877, Groom of the Privy Chamber in Ordinary to HM Queen Victoria
• Census: 1881, 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, St. Paul Onslow Square, London
• Military Service: Nov 1881, Rank of Major (Duke of Cornwall's L.I. 3rd Bat.)
• Military Service: 19 Sep 1885, Hon. Rank Lt-Col (3rd Batt. Duke of Cornwall's Lt. Infantry)
• Census: 1891, 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, St. Paul Onslow Square, London
• Membership: Between 1899 and 1900, Member of the Royal College of Music Corporation and Council
• Awarded: 25 May 1900, C.V.O. (Commander of the Royal Victorian Order)
• Census: 1901, 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, St. Paul Onslow Square, London

Notes:

Charles married Constance Rhiannon Guest on 26 Oct 1865 in Parish Church, Great Canford (Canford Magna), Dorset. Constance (daughter of John Josiah Guest and Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie) was born on 17 Oct 1844 in Dowlais, Glamorgan, Wales; was christened on 14 Nov 1844 in Dowlais, Glamorgan, Wales; died on 22 Mar 1916 in 68 Chester Square, Belgrave, St. Geroge Hanover Square, London; was buried on 25 Mar 1916 in Eliot Family Plot, St. Germans, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Presentation at Court: 18 Mar 1885, Presented by Her Mother (Both Parents Attending the Drawing Room)

Notes:

--- Goddaughter of Lady Elizabeth Cornwallis. Received 5,000 pounds in her will.

--- "Bell's Weekly Messenger" 25 Aug 1866, page 8:
Eliot. --- Aug. 18, at Ebury-street, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Eliot, of a daughter.

--- "Illustrated London News" 25 Aug 1866, page 6:
BIRTHS. At Ebury-street, Hon. Mrs. C. Eliot, of a daughter.

--- "Western Times" 02 Dec 1884, page 2:
Lord and Lady St. Germans gave a very brilliant ball at Port Eliot on Friday evening in honour of the debut of their niece, Miss Blanche Eliot. Dancing was kept up till past three, and the company included all the elite of East Cornwall, as well as a large contingent from South Devon, for whose convenience a special train was run between Plymouth and St. Germans.

--- "Cornishman" 04 Dec 1884, page 4:
Lord and Lady St. Germans received a large party last week at Port Eliot, their family seat in Cornwall, and gave a ball on the occasion of the debut of Miss Blanche Eliot, eldest daughter of the Hon. Major Eliot.

--- "Illustrated London News" 21 Apr 1888, page 3:
The last Brompton Hospital entertainment of the twenty-first season took place on Tuesday, April 17, and consisted of the comedy of "Meg's Diversion," the characters being sustained by Miss F. Vivian (as Margaret Crow), Miss S. Vivian (Cornelia Crow), Miss Chamberlain (Mrs. Netwell), Mr. E.F. Nugent (Jeremy Crow), Mr. H. Duff (Sir Ashley Merton), the Hon. R. Somerset (Roland Pigeon), Mr. Earle (Eytem), and Mr. George C. Nugent (Jasper Pigeon). The whole performance, which was exceedingly well acted, called forth repeated expressions of delight from the patients, who were indebted for this enjoyable entertainment to the ever-ready kindness and sympathy of Mr. George C. Nugent, Grenadier Guards. The Hon. Mrs. Charles Eliot (pianoforte) and the Misses Eliot (violin and violoncello) played a selection of music during the evening.

--- "The Western Antiquary" Vol. 9, page 65:
St. Germans Church Restoration.---
The harvest thanksgiving services at St. Germans Church celebrated on Wednesday were of a more interesting character than in former years, consequent on the work of restoration which is in progress. It is remarkable that this large and ancient edifice, thought once the Cathedral church of the Cornish diocese, is without a chancel. This neglect of its architect, or it may be the work of later renovators, has now been remedied, at least temporarily. Miss Eliot, elder daughter of Colonel the Hon. C.G.C. Eliot, having designed a beautiful screen, the eastern part of the church is separated by it, and forms an unique and effectual chancel. The screen, which is a work of artistic skill, was placed in position by the Countess of St. Germans and the lady visitors at Port Eliot. Holy Communion was celebrated at half-past eleven service; those held during the afternoon and evening were fully choral. Prayers were intoned by the Rev. E. Buck, curate-in-charge, the lessons being read by the Revs. D. Jenkins and H.N. Wheeler. Two appropriate and eloquent sermons were preached, and the one in the afternoon by the Rev. Sylvanus Gregory, that in the evening by the Rev. Joseph Hammond, vicar of St. Austell. A public tea, partaken of during the interval between the afternoon and evening services, was largely attened, and the arduous efforts of Mr. Buck and his co-helpers in the parish met with well-earned success. Collections made on behalf of the Organ Restoration Fund amounted to over ten pounds.----
W.M.N., September 13, 1889.

--- "Western Morning News" 28 Nov 1895, page 5:
A very successful concert was given in St. Germans Townhall last evening, in connection with the Mutual Improvement Society. The programme opened with a brilliantly executed piano solo, Handel's gavotte, by the Hon. Mrs. Eliot, who was also heard to advantage in an instrumental trio for piano, violin and violoncello, the two latter instruments being played most skillfully by Miss Eliot and Miss Evelyn Eliot respectively. An artistically rendered solo by Miss E. Eliot on the 'cello was greatly enjoyed. Miss A. May sang with good effect, as did also Miss Evelyn Warren, and both were encored. They also gave a duet with great taste and expression. Mr. W.G. Broad also contributed to the evening's enjoyment. There was only a fair attendance.

--- "Grantham Journal" 24 April 1909, page 2:
A Marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Stephen Ormston Eaton, of Tolethorpe Hall, Rutland, and Blanche Elizabeth Eliot, elder daughter of the late Colonel the Hon. Charles Eliot and of the Hon. Mrs. Charles Eliot, of 68, Chester-square, London.

--- "Grantham Journal" 21 Sep 1929, page 11:
DEATH OF LADY BLANCHE EATON.--- On Wednesday week the death took place at a Nursing Home of Lady Blanche Elizabeth Eaton, of 98, Ebury-street, London, S.W., and formerly of Tolethorpe Hall. She was widow of Mr. Stephen Ormston Eaton, who died in May, 1911, at Tolethorpe Hall, and who was eldest son of Mr. Charles Ormston Eaton, of Tolethorpe Hall, one of the founders of Messrs. Eaton, Caley Co.'s Bank, which was subsequently amalgamated with the Stamford, Spalding and Boston Bank. The deceased lady left Tolethorpe Hall after the death of her husband to RESIde in London. She was a daughter of Colonel the Hon. Charles G. Eliot, a son of the third Earl of St. Germans and a sister of the present Earl. Mr. S. Ormston Eaton's second wife, she had been married only a few years when he died quite unexpectedly. Whilst living at Tolethorpe she was noted for her kind generosity, and was highly esteemed. The Rev. C.C. Rock officiated at her funeral at St. Marylebone Cemetery, Finchley, on Saturday. Among the mourners were the Hon. Montague Eliot, Col. the Hon. Charles [sic] Eliot, Mr. Peter Eliot, Miss Margaret Eliot, Lady May Ponsonby, Lady Harding, Miss Mills, Miss Marcell, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Orr-Ewing, and Lady Margaret Levett.

--- "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966" (1929, Dabb-Gyte, image 201 of 618):
Eaton, the honourable Blanche Elizabeth of 98 Ebury-street, Middlesex, widow, died 11 September 1929 at the Empire Nursing Home, Vincent-square, Middlesex. Probate London, 12 October, to the honourable Montague Charles Eliot and the honourable Edward Granville Eliot.
Effects 8,832 pounds, 6s. 3d.

Blanche married Stephen Ormston Eaton on 27 May 1909 in St. Andrew's, Wells St. W, London. Stephen was born about 1860; died on 30 May 1911. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: 1881, Castleden Hall, Farnborough, Hampshire
• Education: Between 1882 and 1883, Charterhouse School; Saunderite & Robinite, 1882 Long Quarter- 1883 Oration Quarter

Notes:

Other Events:

• Medical: 26 Jan 1881, London (Had Scarlatina)

Notes:

Other Events:

• Education: 1881, Castleden Hall, Farnborough, Hampshire
• Education: Between 1883 and 1889, Charterhouse School; Saunderite & Robinite, Left in Cricket Quarter 1889
• Education: 1889, Charterhouse School; Exhibitioner & Senior Scholar
• Education: Between 1890 and 1895, Exeter College, Oxford
• Occupation: 15 Mar 1898, Haymarket Theatre, London; Matinee of 'The Passport', Henry Harris, a Man of Few Words played by Monty Eliot
• Appointment: Between 1901 and 1906, Gentleman Usher (KEVII)
• Residence: 1904, 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, St. Paul Onslow Square, London
• Appointment: Between 1908 and 1910, Groom-in-Waiting
• Appointment: Between 1910 and 1936, Gentleman Usher (KGV)
• Appointment: Between 1920 and 1936, Groom of the Robes
• Appointment: 1923, Member, Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
• Appointment: Between 1924 and 1936, Extra Groom-in-Waiting (KGV)
• Appointment: 1928, Commander, Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
• Appointment: 1934, Knight Commander (KCVO)
• Appointment: 1936, Extra Groom-in-Waiting (KEVIII)
• Appointment: Between 1937 and 1952, Extra Groom-in-Waiting (KGVI)
• Appointment: Between 1952 and 1960, Extra Groom-in-Waiting (QEII)
• Probate: 02 Feb 1961, Save and Except Settled Land (London)
• Probate: 09 Mar 1961, Limited to Settled Land (London)

Notes:

Montague married Countess St. Germans, Helen Agnes Post on 22 Jun 1910 in St. George's, Hanover Square, London. Helen (daughter of Arthur Post and Elizabeth Wadsworth) was born on 11 Jan 1885 in Villa Frewen, Pau, France; died on 01 Sep 1962 in Queens Hotel, 1 Grand Parade, Gibraltar. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Between 1885 and 1889, Charterhouse School; (Saunderites) 1885 Oration Quarter - 1889 Long Quarter
• Census: 1891, 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, St. Paul Onslow Square, London
• Residence: 1904, 114 Sloane St, London
• Residence: 1911, Tolethorpe Hall, Stamford, Lincolnshire
• Military Service: 1914, For Special Service, Sub-Lt. RNVR
• Military Service: 01 Dec 1914, Temporary Commission, Lieut. in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
• Military Service: 1915, For Special Service, Lieut. RNVR
• Occupation: 20 Jun 1916, Closing of Christian Eliot, LTD.
• Military Service: 1917, HMS President (Intelligence Division, Lieutenant)
• Military Service: 07 Feb 1921, 'Officier' Awarded (Honorary) to Lt.-Col. Eliot by H.M. the King of Belgium
• Military Service: 15 Sep 1922, Promoted to Rank of Lt.-Col. in Intelligence of Regular Army Reserve
• Military Service: 17 Jul 1927, Retired from Regualr Army Reserve (Attained Age Limit of Liability to Recall)
• Address (Facts Pg): 1939, 4 Mount-street
• Probate: 25 Feb 1941, Llandudno

Notes:

Christian married Laura Grey Chetwode on 03 Jul 1897 in St. Peter's, Eaton-square, London. Laura was born on 01 Jul 1872 in 101 Eaton-square, London; was christened on 07 Nov 1872 in Tatenhill, Staffordshire; died on 22 Jan 1938 in Sunhill, Hampshire; was buried on 25 Jan 1938 in Brookwood Cemetery, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christian married Daisy Blossom Elkan on 12 Feb 1938. Daisy was born on 15 Dec 1875 in Manhattan, New York; died on 07 Jan 1965 in Lonsdale Nursing Home, Lonsdale Gardens, Tunbridge Wells. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Military Service: 1887, Royal Navy
• Education: Between 1889 and 1891, Charterhouse School; Saunderite, 1889 Long Quarter - 1891 Oration Quarter
• Military Service: 1900, Served in South African War; Trooper in Roberts' Horse, Capt. in Kitchner's Horse, & on Staff of Col. Du Cane, R.H.A.
• Occupation: Aft 1900, Cape Colony (Assistant Provost Marshal)
• Occupation: 1904, Lessee & Manager of the Late Opera Comique and the Globe Theatres, London

Notes:

Other Events:

• Education: Between 1891 and 1892, Charterhouse School; Saunderite, 1891 Oration Quarter - 1892 Oration Quarter
• Education: Abt 1893, Magdalen College; Awarded B.A. - Became an Articled Clerk to Solicitors

Notes:

--- "England & Wales, National Pobate Calendar" (1950, Fahorn-Gysin, image 39 of 434):
Eliot, the honourable Edward Granville of 3 Park Village West London N.W.1 and of Long Green Farm House Little Saling Essex, died 10 February 1950 at 2 Seaford Court, Great Portland-street, London W.1 Probate London 4 April to Peter Charles Eliot and Walter Arbuthnot Prideaux solicitors. Effects 25,387 pounds 14s. 2d.

--- "The Times" 11 Feb 1950, page 1:
ELIOT.--- On Feb. 10, 1950, the Hon. Edward Granville Eliot, of 3, Park Village West, Regent's Park, N.W.1., aged 72. Cremation at Golders Green on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 12.30. No flowers.

--- https://pops.baylor.edu/
18 November 1907 - Paris
Monday. 18th [November 1907]. I took leave of Angela Reinelt whose guest I have been in Paris & left by 10 o'cl train for London where I arrived at 5 after a perfectly calm passage. Bessborough kindly sent his motor brougham to the station to fetch me & with it a note to say Connie wanted me to dine with her tonight as she was giving a party to celebrate her son Eddie's engagement to Clare Philips & he wd take me there in the motor if I wd go. I agree to this & he fetched me & took me to 8 Onslow Gardens. I met the bride elect & her father & mother Mr & Mrs Philips. Eddie was not there as he had retired into a nursing home to have a cyst cut out of his neck. The Philips invited me down to Montacute for the wedding on 3rd Decr & I accepted. I got home after 11 very tired. Clare Philips seems a nice bright girl & Eddie has been taken into partnership as a solicitor by her uncle, wh makes the marriage possible.

--- https://pops.baylor.edu/layard/
2 December 1907 - Montacute House, Montacute, Somerset
Monday. 2nd December [1907]. I left Inwood & went by train to Yeovil whence I drove in a fly to Montacute to stay with Mr & Mrs Philips on the occasion of the marriage of their girl Clare to my nephew Edward Eliot. Found Connie already there-she had got a violent cold in her head & I had to get her to keep most of the afternoon in her room by a warm fire & she got better. Montacute is a lovely old house in the style of Hatfield but not well kept up & it was very cold & draughty. There was a large party staying in the house relations of both families. The wedding gifts were all displayed on the billiard table & many neighbours came over to see them. Mr Philips' aged mother-of 91-lives in the house-a charming little rosy cheeked old lady who entered into all that was going on & is very courteous & kind to all. Miss Buller (daughter of Sir Redvers) was here-to act as one of the bridesmaids. Evely Eliot, the brothers of the bride & her married half sister &c. In the evening there was a dance in the hall & several neighbours came over amongst them my niece Mildred Mansel & her husband. It was a very cold night. Connie seemed to have recovered from her cold & danced energetically most of the evening-with men and women.

--- https://pops.baylor.edu/layard/
3 December 1907 - Montacute House, Montacute, Somerset
Tuesday. 3rd [December 1907]. The wedding day. Mr Philips took me in a motor over to Brimpton to see Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane grandfather of the bride. Sir Spencer showed me some of his interesting collections such as buckles of wh he has a lot-pictures-fans-china &c. Amongst other things he showed me the hour glass wh had stood in the Ducal Palace in the room of the Council of Ten wh had been given to Lady Westmorland & identified by Mr E. Chaney- We had to hurry over the visit & get back to an early lunch before the marriage wh was at 2 o'cl. We drove to the church wh was very near the house. The Church was full & the bride & her father arrived soon after us. Evely Eliot played the organ & began with a hymn sung by the choir. All went well-the church was crowded & prettily decorated with flowers. After the service Mr Philips took me to see the remains of the Abbey convent close by wh had belonged to some French monks who were dispossessed by Henry VIII & their lands given to the Philips family. We returned to Montacute & tea &c was served in the hall many neighbours having come in to it. The happy pair started abt 5 for London & the next day left for Venice where they are to stay at Ca' Capello wh I have lent them. We had a quiet evening & went early to bed. Old Sir Spencer Ponsonby proposed the health of the Happy Pair before they departed. He is over 80 but yet hale & hearty.

Edward married Clare Louisa Phelips on 03 Dec 1907 in Montacute, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Cremated: Port Eliot Grounds, St. Germans, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Nicholas married Helen Mary Villiers on 25 Apr 1939 in All Souls, Langham-place, London, and was divorced on 23 Sep 1947. Helen was born on 17 Apr 1915; died on 06 Dec 1951 in Adbury-house, Burghclere, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lived in Delray Beach, Florida (Nov. 1938).
Occupation: Architect

In Aug. 1932, he's listed as a tourist, married, living in London, no trade and spoke English and French.

In 1926, he's listed as moving to England (Sunhill) from US. Occupation is listed as Real Estate, traveling 3rd Class.

11 Oct 1938, coming home to live at Sunhill from US. Occupation, Designer.

15 Feb 1942: Address, 40 East 58th Street, New York, NY

--- "Leeds Mercury" 03 Mar 1903, page 4:
On the 27th Feb., at Oakley, Market Drayton, the wife of Christian Eliot, of a son.

--- "Gettysburg Times" 18 Jul 1933, page 4:
NINA WILCOX PUTNAM WEDS NEPHEW OF EARL.
Las Vegas, Nev., July 18 (AP)---
Nina Wilcox Putnam, the author, and Christian Eliot, nephew of the Earl of St. Germans, were married here Saturday night by the Rev. William L. Summers, of the Methodist church. They flew here from Los Angeles.

Mrs. Putnam was granted a divorce in Juarez, Mexico, Satruday from her third husband, Arthur Ogle, a Florida real estate operator.

Eliot, who gave his age as 30, is the son of the Hon. Christian Eliot, former head of the British passport service. Mrs. Putnam gave her age as 43. They said they intended to spend much of their time abroad.

--- "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966" (1938, Dabb-Gyulai, image 267-727):
Eliot, the honourable Laura Grey of Sunhill Alresford, Hampshire (wife of Christian Edward Cornwallis Eliot) died 22 January 1938. Probate London, 16 March to Ann Rosemary Bridget Lawrence (wife of Alexander Erskine Lawrence) and Nigel Birch stockbroker. Effects 27,751 pounds 6s. 4d.

Notes:

--- "Westminster Gazette" 09 Aug 1907, page 6:
On the 5th inst., at 31, Cadogan-place, S.W., the wife of Christian Eliot, of a daughter.

Family/Spouse: Richard Alan John Asher. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas George Horsey Asher. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Whether driving to Port Eliot or coming by train it is not until you get within 100 yards of the House and Park that you have any idea that such a beautiful place exists. The undulations of the country side with the twists and turns of the estuary make this place invisible from any public highway or foot path. The site has been occupied for more than 1000 years. The first 500 plus years by God and half the millennium by the Eliots!"
Peregrine St Germans

• Eliot. – On January 2nd, at Willingdon Hospital, Lahore, India, to Helen, wife of Captain Nicholas Eliot, the D.C.L.I., of Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall, a son.

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/17/the-earl-of-st-germans--obituary/
The 10th Earl of St Germans, who has died aged 75, enjoyed all the attributes that the popular press expects of the aristocracy - a distinguished lineage, burdensome inheritance, family tragedy and personal eccentricity that flirted with Byronic dissolution.

A central figure in the dalliance with the counter-culture by members of the peerage that began in the 1960s, Lord St Germans personified a certain brand of rakish hippiedom thereafter. Yet he did not allow his fondness for relaxed social norms to compromise a near-feudal grip on his family estate in south-east Cornwall, whose preservation he helped to assure.

His "Elephant Fayre", a festival that took place for a number of years on the Port Eliot estate, attracted some 10,000 revellers, travellers and devotees of the New Age, initially free of charge. The festival took its name from the beast that is the Eliot family's crest, and until the Fayre's demise in the late 1980s one of its prime attractions was a giant wooden elephant. Its howdah could be reached by a ladder concealed within the elephant's hollow core.

In 2003 Elephant Fayre was updated and succeeded by the Port Eliot Lit Fest, an eclectic cultural fiesta with a flavour of Boden-wearing Bohemianism that became a great success, chiefly as a result of the energy and public relations skills of his third wife Cathy Wilson. It combines music and book festival activities with catering by fashionable restaurateurs, cocktail-making classes and wellbeing-focused pursuits such as stargazing, Tibetan chanting and foraging rambles. A luxury yurt can be rented for £1,300.

Peregrine Nicholas Eliot was born on January 2 1941, the only son of the 9th Earl of St Germans, an engaging eccentric known for his devotion to the turf and the nature of his early livelihood as the "Bookie Peer". He listed his recreations in Who's Who as "huntin' the slipper, shootin' a line, fishin' for compliments"; his son, Perry, streamlined his fun to "mucking about".

The Eliots established themselves in Cornwall in the mid-16th century with the purchase of the former Augustinian Priory of St Germans and built their seat at Port Eliot, bordering the Tamar estuary. The house has a park landscaped by Repton, a round room and stables by Soane and a kitchen some 350ft from the dining room; the kitchen also possesses a steam-driven cherry-stoner.

Edward Eliot, MP for Cornwall, was created Baron Eliot in 1784, with the earldom being conferred on his son in 1815. His six successors in the 20th century enjoyed turbulent fortunes. The heir of the 5th Earl committed suicide in the house in 1909 during a village cricket match; his body was found when he missed his turn to bowl. The 6th Earl died following a point to point fall, the 7th was incarcerated in a lunatic asylum, while the 8th, Peregrine Eliot's grandfather, was a courtier described as "having all the stiffness of a poker, with none of its occasional warmth".

Young Perry had a troubled childhood. His parents divorced when he was six, and his mother died when he was 10. His father thereafter spent much of his time in Tangiers, and Perry and his sister were largely brought up by their grandparents and a strict Victorian nanny.

He was educated at Eton, where, he later recalled, "I failed quite spectacularly, even with the assistance of the birch, to take advantage of some of the best teachers in the land"; he came bottom of the school's academic table.

His father made over the 6,000-acre Port Eliot estate to Perry in 1958, and on succeeding as 9th Earl in 1960 changed his telegraphic address in Tangiers to "Earls Court". Peregrine, now Lord Eliot, was hit particularly hard when his grandmother, to whom he was close, killed herself shortly afterwards.

The young Lord Eliot gave himself fully to the spirit of the 1960s. He travelled, driving to India in a Volkswagen Beetle and to Tangiers on a vintage motorcycle (named Veronique) which he customised with sand filters and an ivory gear stick; he afterwards became vice-President of the Harley-Davidson Riders' Club of Great Britain.

He was accompanied on an expedition to the Atlas mountains in search of the domestically extinct Cornish chough by the explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison. On another occasion, on a whim, he walked from Port Eliot to London.

In the late 1960s, Lord Eliot and two friends secured the franchise to market all the Beatles' merchandise, but in the end he did not make any money out of it. However, his interest in rock music - and the alternative lifestyle that accompanied it - persisted; he was a regular attender at the Glastonbury pop music festival and a great friend of Michael Eavis.

"It is futile to recall anything about the festival," he reflected, "especially if the whole thing's done on acid." He found it equally futile to discuss the pleasures of hallucinogens with non-initiates, comparing it to explaining the rules of tennis to a crustacean. Perry Eliot passed his enthusiasm for music on to his second son, Louis, the lead singer with the pop band Rialto.

Lord Eliot was interested in all forms of art. For a time he ran the Elephant Press from the gatehouse at Port Eliot, and gave board for almost a decade to his friend the poet Heathcote Williams. He also commissioned a vast mural (documenting his life) for Sir John Soane's great round room at Port Eliot. The artist, Robert Lenkiewicz, had hitherto been best known for making use in an earlier work of the mummified corpse of a down-and-out he had befriended in Plymouth.

Another of Lord Eliot's additions was the construction of a maze more than usually influenced by the legend of Theseus; it is said to have the head of a bull buried at its centre. This was the latest in a series of peculiar additions to the landscape of Port Eliot. The 8th Earl had a sundial bearing the legend "No man knoweth the hour" built for the walled garden, but put it on the north side, where the sun never shines.

Peregrine Eliot succeeded to the earldom on his father's death in 1988. Thereafter, when his name appeared in the press, it was accompanied increasingly by farce and tragedy. In 1964 he had married the siren beauty Jacquetta Lampson, daughter of the 1st Lord Killearn, who as Sir Miles Lampson had been Ambassador to Egypt during the Second World War. Jacquetta later attracted notoriety by posing for nude studies by her friend, the artist Lucian Freud.

She and Perry Eliot had three sons, but then separated; their protracted divorce was not concluded until 1989. Three years later, the Earl married his girlfriend Elizabeth Williams, but those close to him did not take to her. The staff at Port Eliot had T-shirts printed with the legend "It was better with Jacquetta", while the Earl's sister, Frances, Countess of Shelburne, told the prospective Countess of St Germans that she was not good enough to marry into the family.

That comment came out in court when Elizabeth Williams was arrested for driving the wrong way down a one-way street; she said that she had done so after having a drink to get over the Countess's remark. She and the Earl separated soon after their marriage and were divorced in 1996.

Shortly before, Lord St Germans sold to the Getty Museum for £5 million one of the last Rembrandts left in private hands, Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol of Bel.

His companion for some years was the shoe designer Emma Hope. Since being forced as a child to attend Pony Club he had had a strong dislike of horses, but relaxed his ban on them on the estate to allow her to stable her hunter, Flash, at Port Eliot. Latterly he hosted lawn meets for the East Cornwall Hunt and established a now successful one-day equestrian event.

He was also strong-willed and provocative, and in 1998 an industrial tribunal found that he was wrong to have had his housekeeper sacked when she took time off after having hurt herself cleaning his family silver.

He had an intense temperament given to brooding, a condition not alleviated by the emphysema which he endured for much of the 1990s; in 1997 Emma Hope persuaded him to have a lung transplant. His newly transformed life, he wrote in The Daily Telegraph, amounted to "a miracle".

An accomplished prestidigitator who could weave a coin across his fingers, Lord St Germans had first suffered from respiratory problems when touring America as a magician. Sharing a hospital room with an Indian chief, he had been kept awake by chanting squaws. He had chosen the site of his grave some years ago, a meadow that afforded his favourite view of the estate.

In 2005 Lord St Germans married Catherine Wilson, formerly style editor of the Daily Telegraph Magazine. She survives him with two of the sons from his first marriage. His eldest son, Jago, a former surfing champion of Spain, died in 2006; Jago's young son Albert (Albie) succeeds to the earldom.

• http://porteliotfestival.com/peregrine-st-germans/
Everybody at Port Eliot is sad beyond measure at having to confirm that Peregrine, Lord St Germans, passed away on the afternoon of Friday 15 July. Peregrine died after a short illness following surgery for cancer. Peregrine loved Port Eliot, the festival and the Elephant Fayre that preceded it, and made clear that he wanted this year's festival to go ahead with instructions that it should be the best ever. So, we are more determined than ever that that is what it will be.
(Posted on July 17, 2016)

• http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/204784/st-germans
Telegraph.co.uk Announcement (20 Jul 2016)

Peregrine, 10th Earl of St Germans, died on 15th July 2016, aged 75. Much loved husband of Catherine, father of the late Jago and of Louis and Francis. Funeral to be held on Tuesday 26th July at 2.30 p.m. at St Germans Priory Church, St Germans, PL12 5NP. (Family and friends welcome).

• http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sombre-funeral-for-a-colourful-aristocrat/story-29553518-detail/story.html

Sombre funeral for colourful Earl of St Germans
By WMNKRossiter | Posted: July 26, 2016

The Bohemian Perry Eliot might have been surprised to see so much black. His was a life was lived in full colour.

The 10th Earl of St Germans was buried yesterday on his beloved Port Eliot estate after an emotional funeral service at St Germans Priory Church.

Hundreds of mourners came from the village in South East Cornwall and from around the world to celebrate his life. Many will stay on for the Port Eliot literary festival, which begins tomorrow in the grounds of his estate. Thursday

Lord Eliot's original "Elephant Fayre" festival attracted thousands of revellers, and New Age travellers in the 1980s.

In 2003 it was reborn as the Port Eliot Festival, a cultural fiesta that became a great success, chiefly as a result of the skills of his widow Catherine.

Peregrine Nicholas - Perry to his friends - Eliot leaves a widow, his third wife Catherine, whom he wed in 2005, and sons Louis and Francis. His eldest son and heir Jago died in 2006 and the estate will pass to his 11-year-old grandson Albert, who paid a brave and moving tribute in the funeral service.

Albert, who becomes the 11th Earl of St Germans, recounted holidays spent at Port Eliot and the wonderful stories told by his grandfather.

"We love our Grandad," he said.

The Countess of St Germans read the poem "The Love that I have", by Leo Marks.

Lord Eliot suffered from ill health, and needed a kidney transplant a few years ago. His son Louis thanked the man who donated the kidney, Jo Lanyon, for the extra years of life.

Lord Eliot's son Francis said: "No matter how stressful his life was, he knew that the peace of Port Eliot was his birthright.

"There were very few rules in Dad's court - shut the doors, show up to meals in shoes, put records back in their sleeves and have as much fun as possible." His father would send him upstairs to get ready for bed while he "sat in a chair and smoked a joint to the music of the Rolling Stones".

The service was conducted by the Revd Michael Goodland, and the Duke of Cornwall was represented by the Marquis of Lansdowne, who read from Ecclesiastes Chapter 2, Verses 1-8 and 22, "To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the sun...."

Sir Richard Carew Pole reflected on "the life of a very exceptional man". He said their families had been neighbours for centuries.

"He didn't do stress," he said. "One of his listed recreations was 'sitting still'."

He described how, when Peregrine took over Port Eliot from his grandfather at the age of 21, "suddenly the house was full of young people".

The East Cornwall Bach Choir sang A Whiter Shade of Pale, Air on a G String, and The Cloud-Capp'd Tow'rs and the bellringer was Shaun Turner.

Peregrine married Jacquetta Jean Frederica Lampson on 9 Oct 1964, and was divorced in 1990. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]